Featured Impressionistic Photograph "Home Life"

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.



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.

 

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!!!

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

 

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

 

Here you go...

The paper is not to thin, but has a stiffness to it, and it 10.5"x13.5".

The back is blank, tanned, no paper company logo (kodak), no watermark when held to light.


The front shows a slightly textured surface and its reflectivity.


The close-up of the title shows the continuous tone aspect best.

 

strange title...

 

Certainly atmospheric.

Debora

 

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.

 

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