Tuesday, March 29, 2011

Mr Chevreul, French chemist, ca 1880.
Photographer: Nadar, Paris
(photogravure)

Sunday, March 27, 2011

The painter and his model (and her friend?)
Paris, ca 1880.
Photographer unknown.
1920s series production Citroën, France.
Photographer unknown.

Friday, March 25, 2011

Gloria Swanson (veiled face), ca 1925.
Photographer: Edward Steichen, New York.

Thursday, March 24, 2011

Tuesday, March 22, 2011

Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, Paris, 1928.
Photographer: Germaine Krull

Sunday, March 20, 2011

The return of the prodigal daughter.
Photographer unknown (France ca 1860).

Sunday, March 13, 2011

Countess of Castiglione, ca 1870.
Photographer: Pierre-Louis Pierson (Paris)
Daydreaming girl (Algeria, 1870s).
(Photo after painting by Ingres).
Photographer unknown.

Friday, March 11, 2011

Le sphynx et les pyramides de Cheffren et Mycérinus.
Photographer: Bonfils, ca 1880.
(vintage handcolored albumen photograph)

Wednesday, March 09, 2011

"The Reunion", Macondo/Colombia, c1989.
Photographer: Hannes Wallrafen (Holland), signed.
(inspired by the writer Gabriel Garcia Marquez)

Monday, March 07, 2011

Saturday, March 05, 2011

Painter in his studio (France, ca 1870s).
Photographer unknown.

Ballet dancer (after Degas).
(Tamara Toumanova)
Photographer: Jack O'Reilly, New York (1940s)

Thursday, March 03, 2011