The world of old photography

onlyoldphotography: Andreas Feininger: Slinky like light...

Sat, 25 May 2013 16:01:10 +0300

Andreas Feininger: Slinky like light pattern in the blackness of moonlight sky produced by a time exposure of the light tipped rotor blades of a grounded helicopter as it takes off into the dark sky. 1949

"While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see..."

Sat, 25 May 2013 12:00:35 +0300

“While there is perhaps a province in which the photograph can tell us nothing more than what we see with our own eyes, there is another in which it proves to us how little our eyes permit us to see.”

- Dorothea Lange (via liquidnight)

onlyoldphotography: Alfred Eisenstaedt: Marilyn Monroe,...

Sat, 25 May 2013 08:00:34 +0300

onlyoldphotography:

Alfred Eisenstaedt: Marilyn Monroe, 1953

“When I photographed Marilyn Monroe, I mixed up my cameras - one had black-and-white film, the other color. I took many pictures. Only two color ones came out all right. My favorite picture of Marilyn hangs always on the wall in my office. It was taken on the little patio of her Hollywood house.” - Alfred Eisenstaedt

Andreas Feininger: Storm clouds hover over the Brooklyn Bridge...

Sat, 25 May 2013 04:01:21 +0300

Andreas Feininger: Storm clouds hover over the Brooklyn Bridge and the ghostly skyscrapers of Manhattan’s financial district in March 1946.

Happy 130th birthday, Brooklyn bridge!

life: Happy birthday, Brooklyn Bridge! Today we celebrate the...

Fri, 24 May 2013 22:26:14 +0300

life:

Happy birthday, Brooklyn Bridge!

Today we celebrate the remarkable Brooklyn landmark turning 130.

(Andreas Feininger—Time & Life Pictures/Getty Images)

Frank Eugene: Four Sisters, 1900s

Fri, 24 May 2013 20:01:41 +0300

Frank Eugene: Four Sisters, 1900s

Frank Eugene: Miss Ide, 1890-1903

Fri, 24 May 2013 16:01:17 +0300

Frank Eugene: Miss Ide, 1890-1903

Frank Eugene: The Studio, 1910s

Fri, 24 May 2013 12:00:43 +0300

Frank Eugene: The Studio, 1910s

Frank Eugene: Gustel Königer, 1909

Fri, 24 May 2013 08:00:42 +0300

Frank Eugene: Gustel Königer, 1909

Frank Eugene: Summer, 1898

Fri, 24 May 2013 04:01:26 +0300

Frank Eugene: Summer, 1898

Frank Eugene: The Graduating Class, 1913

Thu, 23 May 2013 20:01:33 +0300

Frank Eugene: The Graduating Class, 1913

Frank Eugene: Song of the Lily, 1897

Thu, 23 May 2013 16:01:18 +0300

Frank Eugene: Song of the Lily, 1897

Frank Eugene: Nude Man with Harp, 1908-1910

Thu, 23 May 2013 12:00:45 +0300

Frank Eugene: Nude Man with Harp, 1908-1910

Frank Eugene: Miss Gladys Lawrence - The Seashell, 1910-13

Thu, 23 May 2013 08:00:46 +0300

Frank Eugene: Miss Gladys Lawrence - The Seashell, 1910-13

Frank Eugene: The sphinx of Giza at midnight, Egypt, 1901

Thu, 23 May 2013 04:01:37 +0300

Frank Eugene: The sphinx of Giza at midnight, Egypt, 1901

Frank Eugene: The Cake Walk, 1900s

Wed, 22 May 2013 20:01:27 +0300

Frank Eugene: The Cake Walk, 1900s

Frank Eugene: Prince Albrecht Johann. “With Neither Crown...

Wed, 22 May 2013 16:01:27 +0300

Frank Eugene: Prince Albrecht Johann. “With Neither Crown Nor Scepter”, 1900-1908

Frank Eugene (1865 - 1936)

Wed, 22 May 2013 12:00:56 +0300

Frank Eugene Smith, who was later known by his artist name Frank Eugene and who adopted German citizenship in 1906, was born in New York in 1865. After a first training at the City College, Eugene began to study painting in New York in 1884 and switched to the Akademie der Bildenden Künste in Munich in 1886. During his years of study Eugene began to be interested in the new media of photography and studied further autodidactically. As soon as 1889 Eugene had his first one-man show at the ‚Camera-Club’ in New York, which was founded by Alfred Stieglitz.

After his graduation Eugene returned to New York in 1894 and worked for some years as a stage designer and portrait painter, specialising in portraying well-known theatre-actors. Since 1900 he lived in Germany again and got envolved with artistic photography, was admitted to the ‚Linked ring’ in London and founded - together with Stieglitz and Edward Steichen - the American photographer’s society ‘Photo-Session’.

Between 1904 and 1910 Eugene’s works were published as heliographs in the advanced photography journal ‚Camera Work’ and became internationally known. Eugene orientated himself in his photographs at painting, following the romanticising style of art photography: Eugene’s treatment of the negatives with opaque colours and etching needle led to his wanted pictorial and graphic effects and with his favoured techniques like platinum print and the rubber-bichrome technique, he achieved the modern blur of his positives. Since 1907 Eugene began his educational work at the Lehr-und Versuchsanstalt für Fotographie in Munich, which he continued at his chair for artistic photography at the Königliche Akademie für Grafische Künste in Leipzig in 1913.

In 1907 Eugene organised a meeting between Stieglitz, Steichen and Heinrich Kühn and brought forward the assimilation of German art photographers to American guidelines. The art photographer Frank Eugene, who was always interested in international exchange, died in Munich in 1936.

Frank Eugene: Alfred Stieglitz, 1899

Wed, 22 May 2013 08:00:56 +0300

Frank Eugene: Alfred Stieglitz, 1899

Frank Eugene: Fritzi von Derra - The Greek Dancer, 1900s

Wed, 22 May 2013 04:01:50 +0300

Frank Eugene: Fritzi von Derra - The Greek Dancer, 1900s