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  1. CW: Cameras
    I just got some film for my C3 Matchmatic today. I've never used it before, had it nearly 8 years. Now begins the long and arduous process of learning manual photography, I guess 🤷.

    Was too dark to get many good shots, I went out at like the absolute minimum amount of light that wouldn't register a 0 on the S3 meter and snapped a couple pics of the MGB.

    The shutter timer is a bit jammy on slower speeds. Somewhere around 1/40s it gets stuck, I've been applying minor force at the bottom to get the 1/30 shots I needed for the low light shots.

    I'll post them here and on my blog once I get them developed.

    #photography #vintagephotography #vintagecamera #antiquecamera #antiquecar #Matchmatic #amateurphotography
  2. Meine Güte, hat Stavros Diamantakis viele historische Foto-Kameras in seinem Geschäft O_O

    (Ich kam auf das Video, nachdem ich bei Kleinanzeigen eine "Bilora Boy" gesehen habe, eine historische Kamera aus Bakelit gefertigt.)

    "A luxury box from Germany (1953) - the Bilora Luxus Boy"

    https://invidious.nerdvpn.de/watch?v=KUcnTm-GnRo

    (https://youtu.be/KUcnTm-GnRo)

    #StavrosDiamantakis #VintagePhotography
  3. I think I’ve got some work ahead of me - lots of cleaning, greasing, calibrating, and even mirror replacement needed here.

    #Leica #VintagePhotography

  4. Your photography history post for today: by the photography studio of Southworth and Hawes (American, active 1843–1863), Woman in Black Taffeta Dress and Lace Shawl, ca. 1850, daguerreotype with applied color, 8 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches (21.6 x 16.5 cm), The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. #photography #PhotographyHistory #vintagephotography

    From the The Daguerreian Society: “A daguerreotype is the earliest widely adopted form of photography, introduced in 1839 by Louis-Jacques-Mandé Daguerre. It produced a highly detailed, one-of-a-kind image on a polished silver-coated copper plate. No negative was involved—each daguerreotype is a unique object…

    The daguerreotype was revolutionary: It produced images with unprecedented accuracy and detail; made portraiture accessible to the middle class; and led to the rise of a booming photographic industry during the 1840s–1850s, as studios rapidly spread across Europe and the United States.”

  5. Your photography history post for today: by Eugène Atget (1857-1927), “Boulevard de Strasbourg,” 1912. #photography #PhotographyHistory #vintagephotography #darkroomphotography #darkroom #blackandwhitephotography

    From the International Center of Photography “Eugène Atget was a French photographer best known for his photographs of the architecture and streets of Paris. He took up photography in the late 1880s and supplied studies for painters, architects, and stage designers. Atget began shooting Paris in 1898 using a large format view camera to capture the city in detail. His photographs, many of which were taken at dawn, are notable for their diffuse light and wide views that give a sense of space and ambience. They also document Paris and its rapid changes; many of the areas Atget photographed were soon to be razed as part of massive modernization projects.

    Atget’s photographs drew the admiration of a variety of artists, most notably Man Ray, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso. Man Ray even used one of Atget’s photographs for the cover of his surrealist magazine la Révolution surréaliste. The photographer Berenice Abbott preserved Atget’s prints and negatives and was the first person to exhibit Atget’s work outside of France.”

  6. Your photography history post for today: by Eugène Atget (1857-1927), “Boulevard de Strasbourg,” 1912. #photography #PhotographyHistory #vintagephotography #darkroomphotography #darkroom #blackandwhitephotography

    From the International Center of Photography “Eugène Atget was a French photographer best known for his photographs of the architecture and streets of Paris. He took up photography in the late 1880s and supplied studies for painters, architects, and stage designers. Atget began shooting Paris in 1898 using a large format view camera to capture the city in detail. His photographs, many of which were taken at dawn, are notable for their diffuse light and wide views that give a sense of space and ambience. They also document Paris and its rapid changes; many of the areas Atget photographed were soon to be razed as part of massive modernization projects.

    Atget’s photographs drew the admiration of a variety of artists, most notably Man Ray, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso. Man Ray even used one of Atget’s photographs for the cover of his surrealist magazine la Révolution surréaliste. The photographer Berenice Abbott preserved Atget’s prints and negatives and was the first person to exhibit Atget’s work outside of France.”

  7. Your photography history post for today: by Eugène Atget (1857-1927), “Boulevard de Strasbourg,” 1912. #photography #PhotographyHistory #vintagephotography #darkroomphotography #darkroom #blackandwhitephotography

    From the International Center of Photography “Eugène Atget was a French photographer best known for his photographs of the architecture and streets of Paris. He took up photography in the late 1880s and supplied studies for painters, architects, and stage designers. Atget began shooting Paris in 1898 using a large format view camera to capture the city in detail. His photographs, many of which were taken at dawn, are notable for their diffuse light and wide views that give a sense of space and ambience. They also document Paris and its rapid changes; many of the areas Atget photographed were soon to be razed as part of massive modernization projects.

    Atget’s photographs drew the admiration of a variety of artists, most notably Man Ray, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso. Man Ray even used one of Atget’s photographs for the cover of his surrealist magazine la Révolution surréaliste. The photographer Berenice Abbott preserved Atget’s prints and negatives and was the first person to exhibit Atget’s work outside of France.”

  8. Your photography history post for today: by Eugène Atget (1857-1927), “Boulevard de Strasbourg,” 1912. #photography #PhotographyHistory #vintagephotography #darkroomphotography #darkroom #blackandwhitephotography

    From the International Center of Photography “Eugène Atget was a French photographer best known for his photographs of the architecture and streets of Paris. He took up photography in the late 1880s and supplied studies for painters, architects, and stage designers. Atget began shooting Paris in 1898 using a large format view camera to capture the city in detail. His photographs, many of which were taken at dawn, are notable for their diffuse light and wide views that give a sense of space and ambience. They also document Paris and its rapid changes; many of the areas Atget photographed were soon to be razed as part of massive modernization projects.

    Atget’s photographs drew the admiration of a variety of artists, most notably Man Ray, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso. Man Ray even used one of Atget’s photographs for the cover of his surrealist magazine la Révolution surréaliste. The photographer Berenice Abbott preserved Atget’s prints and negatives and was the first person to exhibit Atget’s work outside of France.”

  9. Your photography history post for today: by Eugène Atget (1857-1927), “Boulevard de Strasbourg,” 1912. #photography #PhotographyHistory #vintagephotography #darkroomphotography #darkroom #blackandwhitephotography

    From the International Center of Photography “Eugène Atget was a French photographer best known for his photographs of the architecture and streets of Paris. He took up photography in the late 1880s and supplied studies for painters, architects, and stage designers. Atget began shooting Paris in 1898 using a large format view camera to capture the city in detail. His photographs, many of which were taken at dawn, are notable for their diffuse light and wide views that give a sense of space and ambience. They also document Paris and its rapid changes; many of the areas Atget photographed were soon to be razed as part of massive modernization projects.

    Atget’s photographs drew the admiration of a variety of artists, most notably Man Ray, Henri Matisse, and Pablo Picasso. Man Ray even used one of Atget’s photographs for the cover of his surrealist magazine la Révolution surréaliste. The photographer Berenice Abbott preserved Atget’s prints and negatives and was the first person to exhibit Atget’s work outside of France.”

  10. Photography history: by Japanese photographer Kazumasa Ogawa, “A Damsel – Maiko cherry blossom time” (ca. 1890), albumin paper, colored, 27 x 20.6 cm, © National Museums in Berlin, Ethnological Museum. #photography #photographyhistory #vintagephotography #Japan

    From the Printing Museum, Tokyo: Having been invented in France in the first half of the 19th century, photography arrived in Japan at the end of the Edo era (1603 to 1868), and was used to record a wide range of subjects. Kazumasa Ogawa (aka Kazuma or Isshin) (1860 to 1929) was a photographer who was active in the later half of the Meiji era (1868 to 1912), when photography had spread throughout society. The portrait of Japanese author Souseki Natsume that was formerly featured on the 1,000 yen note was taken by Ogawa. Many people have likely seen Ogawa’s works at one time or another.

    Kazumasa Ogawa differed from other photographers in that he not only took photographs, but created and published many printed works through photoengraving. Photoengraving is a method used to make printing plates based on negative and positive principle using photographic technology. It started in Japan during the Meiji era, and continued to be used by printers to make plates. In the Meiji era, long before the arrival of television and radio broadcasting systems, the standard form of mass communication media consisted of printed matter such as newspapers, magazines, and books. Photographic illustrations played a significant role in the growing publication industry.”

  11. By American photographer Imogen Cunningham (1883–1976), Two Callas, 1925, one of her most celebrated and iconic images. #photography #vintagephotography #artphotography #photographyhistory

    From the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston: “Best known for photographs of flowers in her San Francisco garden taken during the 1920s and 1930s, Imogen Cunningham rejected soft-focus, sentimental imagery in favor of an approach that conveyed, with crystalline clarity, a sensuous delight in nature.”

  12. I have posted this haunting photograph of a 10-year old mill worker before, but it bears repeating. By Lewis W. Hine (1874-1940), “One of the spinners in Whitnel Cotton Mfg. Co. N.C. December 1908.” #photography #vintagephotography #childlabor #labor

    From the Cantor Art Center: “In 1908, Lewis Hine felt so strongly about the devastating affects of child labor that he quit working as a New York City school teacher to become an investigative photographer for the National Child Labor Committee.
    Hine spent the next 10 years traveling through New England, the South and the Mid-West, photographing children at work in mills, coal mines and factories. The resulting photographs, proof to the public that child labor was thriving, helped change American labor laws…

    Lewis Hine was born September 26, 1874, in Oshkosh, Wisconsin. He studied sociology at the University of Chicago, Columbia University, and New York University, and became a teacher at the Ethical Culture School, a progressive elementary school in New York founded by social reformer Felix Adler. Hine often took his classes to Ellis Island to photograph immigrants arriving from Europe, and in the process came to the realization that documentary photography could effect social change. In 1907, as staff photographer of the Russell Sage Foundation, he photographed Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, steel makers for an influential sociological study, and a year later became the National Child Labor Committee's (NCLC) official photographer, documenting child labor in the NCLC's effort to legally end the practice. From 1908 to 1924, Hine gained entrance to mills, mines and factories by donning a variety of guises, including fire inspector and Bible salesman. The NCLC amassed a collection of 5,100 photographs, most of them taken by Hine, though child labor would continue largely unabated until 1938, when the Fair Labor Standard Act was passed.

    During World War I, Hine documented the American Red Cross's work in France and Belgium. In 1930, at age 57, he was commissioned to photograph the construction of the Empire State Building, shooting from a basket hanging 1,000 feet above Fifth Avenue. During the Great Depression, he documented drought relief in the South, life in the Eastern Tennessee Mountains, and served as chief photographer for the Works Projects Administration (WPA). During the last years of his life, Hine struggled financially, losing his house and applying for Welfare. He died on November 3, 1940, following complications from surgery.”

  13. Photograph by French writer, caricaturist, and photographer Félix Nadar (1820-1910) of actress Sarah Bernhardt (1844-1923), known as the Divine Sarah, salt print from a collodion glass negative, ca. 1860-1865. #photography #vintagephotography #photographyhistory

  14. Photography history: by African photographer Seydou Keïta (ca. 1921-2001), Untitled [Seated Woman with Chevron Print Dress], 1956. #photograpy #photographyhistory #africa #africanphotography #portraitphotography #vintagephotography

    From the Metropolitan Museum of Art: “From 1949 to 1977 Keita was the most popular portrait photographer in his native Bamako, Mali, producing thousands of commissioned portraits of politicians, government workers, shop owners, and ordinary citizens that comprise an outstanding visual record of a modern society.”

  15. Photography history: by African photographer Seydou Keïta (ca. 1921-2001), Untitled [Seated Woman with Chevron Print Dress], 1956. #photograpy #photographyhistory #africa #africanphotography #portraitphotography #vintagephotography

    From the Metropolitan Museum of Art: “From 1949 to 1977 Keita was the most popular portrait photographer in his native Bamako, Mali, producing thousands of commissioned portraits of politicians, government workers, shop owners, and ordinary citizens that comprise an outstanding visual record of a modern society.”

  16. Photography history: by African photographer Seydou Keïta (ca. 1921-2001), Untitled [Seated Woman with Chevron Print Dress], 1956. #photograpy #photographyhistory #africa #africanphotography #portraitphotography #vintagephotography

    From the Metropolitan Museum of Art: “From 1949 to 1977 Keita was the most popular portrait photographer in his native Bamako, Mali, producing thousands of commissioned portraits of politicians, government workers, shop owners, and ordinary citizens that comprise an outstanding visual record of a modern society.”

  17. Photography history: by African photographer Seydou Keïta (ca. 1921-2001), Untitled [Seated Woman with Chevron Print Dress], 1956. #photograpy #photographyhistory #africa #africanphotography #portraitphotography #vintagephotography

    From the Metropolitan Museum of Art: “From 1949 to 1977 Keita was the most popular portrait photographer in his native Bamako, Mali, producing thousands of commissioned portraits of politicians, government workers, shop owners, and ordinary citizens that comprise an outstanding visual record of a modern society.”

  18. Early street photography by Chinese photographer Lai Fong (Afong Studio), ca.1839–1890, “A Commercial Street in Guangzhou,” ca. 1880, albumen print, 29 x 22.5 cm (11 7/16 x 8 7/8 in.), this print in the collection of The Cleveland Museum of Art. #photography #streetphotography #vintagephotography #photographyhistory

  19. Photography history: portrait of Princess Indira Devi of Kapurthala, mid 1930s, Kinsey Studios, Delhi. #photography #vintagephotography #vintage #india #photographyhistory

    From the blog “Arjunpuri in Qatar”:
    ‘“Maharajkumari Indira Devi (a.k.a. Princess Indee), born in 1912, was the daughter of Maharaja Paramjit Singh and Maharani Brinda of Kapurthala. By all accounts a spirited, intelligent young woman, she left India for Britain in her early 20s to become a movie star. She studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts in London, and worked briefly in the movies, narrating a few films.

    After the outbreak of WWII, this feisty young princess successfully passed the St. John Ambulance examination and drove ambulances during air raids! She eventually joined the BBC in 1942, and hosted several series of radio broadcasts in Hindustani for Indian forces stationed in the Middle East. She also became famous for hosting ‘The Debate Continues’- a weekly broadcast to India. For this programme, she reported from the House of Commons, where she was the only woman in the entire press gallery!

    Popularly known as the ‘Radio Princess’, she continued to work for the BBC till 1968. She passed away in 1979, in Ibiza, Spain.”

  20. By African-American photographer Arthur P. Bedou (1882-1966), Sisters of the Holy Family, Classroom Portrait, 1922, gelatin silver print. #photography #blackphotograper #blackphotographers #vintagephotography #BlackHistory

    From “Called to the Camera: Black American Studio Photographers: New exhibition traces evolution of Black studio photography,” by New Orleans Museum of Art Staff, 64 Parishes, February 28, 2023 : ‘Writing in The Crisis in 1923, W. E. B. Du Bois urged more young Black Americans to pursue photography as a career, citing a desire for beautiful images, the potential for a “good income,” and the chance to perform “excellent social service.” Du Bois even dropped the names of a few of his favorite photographers: Addison Scurlock of Washington, DC, Cornelius M. Battey of Tuskegee, Alabama, and Arthur P. Bedou of New Orleans. In spotlighting those three, Du Bois called attention to the most successful of their era—photographers who produced gorgeously lit and delicately finished portraits, beautifully toned prints that affirmed who the sitters believed themselves to be. These photographers sold portraits that were in keeping with the most popular trends in photography at the time, and regularly ventured out of their studios to make other kinds of dynamic photographs for social groups, churches, organizations, and other Black-owned businesses. Du Bois named three of the best, but in truth, they were only a few of the growing number of Black photographers working in portrait studios across the country, upwards of six hundred individuals at the time of Du Bois’s essay.’

  21. Photo by Edward S. Curtis (1868-1952), “Mosa-Mohave,” photogravure, 1903. As a photograph it appears in many collections, both public & private. #photography #vintagephotography #photographyhistory #nativeamerican #indigenous

    Here is a fascinating story from Siouxland Public Media about Curtis and how he raised funding from JP Morgan when he showed the magnate this photograph: kwit.org/featured-programs/202

  22. Beams of sunlight streaming through the windows at Grand Central Station, New York City, ca. 1930. (Photo by Hal Morey/Fox Photos/Hulton Archive/Getty Images). #vintagephotography #photography #photographyhistory

    I have seen this photo attributed to several different photographers, including Berenice Abbott and Alfred Stieglitz, but I tend to trust Getty Images.

    From Canning Decorative Building Arts: “On February 2, 1913—after 10 years, 80 million, 3 shifts per day, and up to 10,000 workers at a time—Grand Central Terminal opened to the public. In the late 1990s, after years of neglect, near demolition, and a miraculous designation as the first historic landmark under the US landmarks conservancy act, a comprehensive restoration of the station’s structural, architectural, and decorative details returned the historic landmark to its former glory. Plans were also adopted to expand the purpose of the station to include a diverse selection of restaurants and shops that would serve commuters and tourists alike…

    A detailed analysis of the dirt by scientists at McCrone Associates reported that the dirt and grime did not contain any nicotine or particles that could be attributed to cigar or cigarette smoke. The grime was the result of decades of air pollutants – specifically car and truck exhaust, and the emissions soot and contaminants from industrial plants and apartment-building incinerators.

    These pollutants, multiplied by New York’s 14.8 million residents in the 50s, made for alarming cover stories in LIFE magazine featuring NY smog. The breath-defying air in NYC and other big cities at that time led to country-wide clean air regulations beginning in 1957, the first federal Clean Air Act in 1963, and most important, mandated emission standards for automobiles, trucks, and buses beginning in 1970.

    For all those years, Grand Central stood in the midst of that haze with its windows open to the pollutant-laden air. But the cigarette and cigar smoke from hundreds of thousands of people passing through the terminal each day did not contribute to the heavy layer of dirt and grime found on the ceiling surface 125’ above.”

  23. Attempt 2 at joining #TeamHorizon, after my first one two years ago turned out to be full of fungus and completely lacking light seals and was sent back as a result.

    Stumbled upon this one at Real Camera in Manchester today. Apparently they only got it in today, too. Here’s hoping this one fairs better than the last.

    #VintagePhotography #FilmPhotography

  24. Photograph by African-American photographer James Van Der Zee (1886–1983), “Couple, Harlem,” 1932, gelatin silver print. As a photo it appears in collections both public & private. #vintagephotography #BlackHistory #blackphotographer #PhotographyHistory

    From Charles Hagen, The New York Times, April 15, 1994: “VanDerZee, who died in 1983 at the age of 96, was the leading photographer in Harlem during its heyday, from World War I until the 1940's.

    Through the doors of VanDerZee's studio, situated first on West 135th Street and later on upper Seventh Avenue, passed a cross-section of Harlem society. His sitters included such celebrities as the Rev. Adam Clayton Powell Sr. and the dancer Bill (Bojangles) Robinson as well as a host of ordinary working men and women.”

    And from Gene Thornton, The New York Times, Feb. 26, 1984: ‘James Van Der Zee had two careers in photography. The first was as a neighborhood photographer in Harlem during the 1920's and 30's. The second, as a national photographic celebrity, lasted from 1969, when his work of the 20's and 30's was prominently featured in the exhibition ''Harlem on My Mind'' at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, until his death in 1983 at the age of 96.’

  25. Photograph by Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879), “Julia Jackson,” 1867, albumen print, mounted on board, this print 9 7/8 x 7 7/8 in. (24.9 x 19.8 cm.), listed at Christie’s 2 Apr 2019. #vintagephotography #darkroom #PhotographyHistory #womenphotographers #womenshistory

    From the lot essay: “The present lot shows Julia Margaret Cameron’s niece, a young and recently-wed Julia Jackson, modeled as an example of Victorian purity and grace. As a steady fixture in Cameron's work, Jackson appears in more than fifty portraits by Cameron, her natural beauty embodying the artist’s pursuit of ideal reality. The measured lighting of Cameron’s photographs demonstrates an intention to confront the unadorned beauty of her subjects; this particular example relies on Jackson's natural countenance to depict austere elegance. The present lot is a fine example of the manner and intention of Pre-Raphaelite paintings that informed and inspired Cameron’s work.“

  26. Your photography history post for today: by photographer Joseph T. Keiley (1869-1914), A Sioux Chief [Has-No-Horses], 1898, platinum print, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Keiley worked with photographer Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946). #darkroom #photography #vintagephotography #photographyhistory

    From the museum: “Keiley's association with Stieglitz began about 1898, the year he and Gertrude Kasebier photographed a group of Lakota Sioux—including this man, Has-No-Horses—who were in New York as part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. Keiley, a dedicated amateur, collaborated with Stieglitz to improve upon a glycerine-developed platinum printing process that proved to be among the most painterly photographic methods ever devised. This sort of manipulation made each print unique and emphasized the handmade, artistic nature of such photographs in contrast to the work of both commercial studios and Kodak snapshooters.”