Philip Davies, an architectural historian, spent seven years trawling through the photographs, compiling the best 1,500 into a 558-page book entitled Lost England.
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Learn the characteristics of 5 types of old photographs and how to identify them and find clues to who is in that old family photo.
It won't be easy to locate old photos of your ancestors, but the hard work is worth it. Here's where to get started in your search.
Бельгийский фотограф Леонард Мизенн ( Leonard Misonne , 1870-1943) собирался стать инженером, прежде чем открыл для себя фотографию. Тогда-то он, вооружившись камерой, стал путешествовать по Бельгии и за ее пределами, и снимал так, как ему нравилось - в пикториалистском стиле. Его фотографии…
• The Orchard. Artist: Clarence Hudson White (American, b.1871, d.1925), photographer Date: 1902 Place of origin: United States Medium: platinum print
It’s said that everything has beauty, but not everyone sees it. And yet, if you take a look at photos of alluring people of the past, you simply can’t ignore their radiant appearances. Standards of “good looks” have changed over time, but the unique features and pure grace of people from that period are just mesmerizing.
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Sarah Blackwood writes about the groundbreaking photographer Anne Brigman, who created sweeping and ambitious photos of nudes and landscapes in the Sierra Nevada.
My name is Marcin Kesek and I am a 27-year-old photographer from a little village in southern Poland called Gronkow. I live in a very beautiful place near the Tatra Mountains, Pieniny and Gorce. A few years ago, I decided to capture these amazing surroundings at the right time and the best possible lighting. This was how my passion for landscape photography was born.
In 1905, when the Andean photographer Martín Chambi was 14 years old, he traveled to northwestern Peru with his father, who had a job working in a gold mine there. At the time, there were no indigenous photographers in the country, and images of the Quechua people were mostly captured through the lenses of French and American photographers.
These superb photographs taken by the Belgian photographer Léonard Misonne (1870-1943) elevate the everyday into fine art. Missone’s artistry, his eye for composition, light and mood, encourage us to share his thoughts and emotions. Form takes over from subject matter and content. They are extraordinary pictorial photographs, as poetic as Andrei Tarkovsky’s sublime Polaroids. … Continue reading "Extraordinary Photographs by Léonard Misonne"
Fotografie en schilderkunst, ze staan veelal veel dichter bij elkaar dan je zou kunnen denken. Dat is al zeker het geval bij de misschien wat miskende Belgische fotograaf Leonard Misonne. Zijn zachte tonen en schilderachtige taferelen worden versterkt door de speciale printtechniek die hij ontwikkelde. Misonne: “« Le sujet n’est rien, la lumière est tout » Het […]
Some of the earliest photos of Victorian women have come to light in a revealing album of prints from the pioneering days of photography. The set of pictures taken by Lady Clementina Hawarden, one of Britain's first female photographers, is set to fetch £150,000 at auction.
Compared with what was to follow, the weeks leading up to the bloodiest battle in British history were a gentle calm before the storm, as these astonishing 100-year-old photographs show.
LOOK AT THIS BABY MUSK OX Photograph by Randy Kokesch Flickr | 500px | Google+ In this adorable capture by Randy Kokesch, we see a baby Musk Ox that is a mere few weeks old. Th…
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A small collection of old color photographs of life in Ireland in 1913.
Photographer Sebastião Salgado captures the Awa's world.
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Images show women at the Salpetriere Hospital in Paris, France during the 1870s, as medics tried to cure them and understand their disturbed state.
Techniques and strategies to identify old photographs. Date an old photo and find other important clues in your old family photos.
It might come as a surprise, but it wasn't long after photography became widespread that experiments with color took place, creating vivid images which
The Victorian and Edwardian eras, which saw tremendous industrialization, technological development, and social transformation, are known as the two of the most revolutionary times in British history. These two periods were a time of great cultural richness and diversity, with art, literature, and music flourishing.
Китай: Гуанси-Чжуанский автономный район, ГуйлиньРисовая плантация. Фотограф Bruno Barbey. 1... Смотрите полностью ВКонтакте.
Machinery at the old gunpowder works, Ponsanooth, west Cornwall, photographed during my visit on 14 July.
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Magomed Shapiev is a talented 24-year-old self-taught staff photographer at Dagestan’s presidential press office and popular instagram user based in Makhachkala, Russia.
Josef Sudek, perhaps my favourite photographer, is a poet's artist. His images invoked in me the poetry I carry and give me a reason why I keep them.
For 100 years, they stayed hidden in family albums. Now amateur photographer Horace Warner’s intimate portraits of London’s poorest children are being printed for the first time, giving a glimpse into a forgotten world
Sarah Blackwood writes about the groundbreaking photographer Anne Brigman, who created sweeping and ambitious photos of nudes and landscapes in the Sierra Nevada.
“What is hell? I maintain that it is the suffering of being unable to love.” - Fyodor Dostoevsky (The Brothers Karamazov)
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