Showing posts with label Edward Steichen. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Edward Steichen. Show all posts

Saturday, 17 January 2015

Image Study VII: Possessed

While this is one of my more rushed image study entries,  I think the subject is a rich one- as the term possessed has many different meanings, all of which are both conceptually and aesthetically evocative and controversial.

Melpomene- Landon Rives
Edward Steichen -1904-05
Photograph- Gum bichromate over platinum print

The Dance Class
Edgar Degas- 1874
Oil on canvas

Still Life with Teapot and Fruit
Paul Gauguin- 1896
Oil on canvas

Sir John Herschel
Julia Margaret Cameron- April, 1867
Photograph- Albumen silver print from glass negative

Portrait of a Woman with a Man at a Casement
Fra Filippo Lippi- 1440
Tempera on wood

Sunday, 14 December 2014

Image study II

Apologies for the lateness-- without further adieu:
(these and more, found here)

The Blackboard, Poland
David "Chim" Seymour- 1948
Photo- Gelatin silver print

Woods Twilight
Edward J. Steichen- 1899
Photo- Platinum Print

West Indies, From the Types of All Nations series (N24) for Allen & Ginter Cigarettes
George S. Harris & Sons- 1889
Commercial color lithograph

Diana And Endymion
Frank Short (based on painting by George Frederic Watts, 1869)- 1891
Etching and Mezzotint

La Poupee
Hans Bellmer- 1934
Photo- Gelatin Silver Print