Jan 26, 2012

Named After Vermeer (2010); silver gelatin print. Wessel + O’Connor Fine Art resumed business recently following a hiatus and a change of location. Their current exhibition is a presentation of prints by American photographer Jefferson Hayman whose use of silver gelatin and platinum processes returns photography to the diffuse atmospheres of its earliest days. Some [...]
Dec 7, 2011

The Flatiron Building, Detroit Publishing Company (1903). Beautiful Century posted this view of New York’s Flatiron Building at the weekend which had me looking for a larger copy. Happily this is one of the many high-resolution photos at the Shorpy Historical Archive where it’s possible to scrutinise a wealth of detail. Old photos like this [...]
Dec 6, 2006

Photography by Edward Steichen (1879–1973). Isadora Duncan at the Portal of the Parthenon, Athens (1920). The Flatiron Building, New York (1905). Previously on { feuilleton } • Karel Plicka’s views of Prague • Atget’s Paris