Featured Impressionistic Photograph "Home Life"

Discussion in 'Ephemera and Photographs' started by Roaring20s, Feb 13, 2021.

  1. Roaring20s

    Roaring20s Well-Known Member

    This is the only Art Photo that I have. One of those things that we've had forever. I'd say it's early twentieth century, maybe from the teens. The overall size is 12"x15".

    The photographer (unknown), was creative in the darkroom. The impression is dreamy.

    Home Life.JPG

    Here are some notable photographers creating similar effects. Enjoy...

    https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1995.199.42.m
    https://www.clevelandart.org/art/2015.409
    https://flashbak.com/extraordinary-photographs-by-leonard-misonne-415187/leonard-misonne-6/
    https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1995.199.19.f
    https://www.clevelandart.org/art/1995.199.6.e

    James.
     
  2. Aquitaine

    Aquitaine Is What It IS! But NEVER BORED!

    A Nice, Soft image!! I Enlarged that signature a bit, but I am NOT good at deciphering them!!!! Maybe someone else might take a swing at it!!!

    New2 siggy-standard-scale-2_00x.jpg
     
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  3. Roaring20s

    Roaring20s Well-Known Member

    Thanks. The photographer is unknown. What's written on the image, is the title, Home Life. ;)
     
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  4. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    Think you're right about the date. Is it a photograph or a print of a photograph? Could/would you post a photograph of the back? Have you opened it up?

    Debora
     
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  5. Roaring20s

    Roaring20s Well-Known Member

    Here you go...

    The paper is not to thin, but has a stiffness to it, and it 10.5"x13.5".
    Home Life back.png
    The back is blank, tanned, no paper company logo (kodak), no watermark when held to light.

    Home Life surface.png
    The front shows a slightly textured surface and its reflectivity.

    Home Life title.png
    The close-up of the title shows the continuous tone aspect best.
     
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  6. komokwa

    komokwa The Truth is out there...!

    strange title...:confused:
     
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  7. Debora

    Debora Well-Known Member

    Certainly atmospheric.

    Debora
     
  8. Fid

    Fid Well-Known Member

    looks as if someone put a hemispherical form at the start of the exposure and then continued by taking it away and continuing by "fawning" towards the edges of the photography.
     
  9. moreotherstuff

    moreotherstuff Izorizent

    The style is called "pictorialism". One of the aesthetic criticisms of early photography was that it was just a combination of optics and chemistry and could never produce anything more than a journalistic record. Pictorialists manipulated the photograph to produce an image altered from stark reality so that it had to be viewed as something other than clinically factual.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pictorialism
     
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