Photography is a kingdom of glamour and banality

“Photography is a kingdom of glamour and banality. ” A. O. Scott Social History of Photography Daguerreotype Portraiture

Mme. Daguerre, ca. 1840

Daguerre, Boulevard du Temple, 1839

Paul Delaroche, 1839: “As of today painting is dead. ” “La peinture est morte à partie de ce jour. ” But he kept painting. . . (Napoleon crossing the Alps, 1848)

Ars photographica The Art of Photography Breathed on by the mirrors of the sun, A brilliant image appears How beautifully it reflects the forehead, The light of the eye, the charm of the mouth. Oh marvelous power of the mind, Nature’s new creation Not even the hand of Appeles, the Master, Could have produced it more effectively. Pope Leo XIII (r. 1878 -1903) “Ars photographica”/ “The Art of Photography”

Daguerreotype Portraiture

Daguerreotype Portraiture

Daguerreotype Portrait of E. A. Poe Ca. 1840 E. A. Poe, “The Daguerreotype” 1840 xroads. virginia. edu/~hyper/POE/daguer. html

Daguerreotype Erotica

Eugénie de la Délassements-Comique L. e s i n s o u m i s e s b y V a u r y , 1 8 6 5 Ethnographic E r o t i c 1847 a south-east Australian Aboriginal and two younger companions Medical * RISD Museum: Prints, Drawings, & Photographs, Open hours F : 10: 30 -12: 30 Daguerreotypes: Portraits of another kind

Daguerreotypes For multiple uses

Andreas Ritter von Ettinghausen, Clematis Stem, microscopic cross-section , 1840, daguerreotype, Vienna

Ettinghausen 1840 Is Painting Dead? Delaroche, Bonaparte Crossing the Alps 1848

Daguerre, Fossils and Shells, 1839

Crystal objects (1844) William Henry Fox-Talbot British

Alphonse Bertillon Teaching his System at the Paris Prefécture of Police. “Sérvice de l’Identité judicaire: cours de Signalement descriptif (Portrait Parle)” Prefécture de Police, Paris.

Bertillon’s Lesson on physiognomic resemblance: Women of the same race (Roma) “Gitanes” Twin brothers. Possible to identify types and individuals.

Archaeological photography Giorgio Sommer, ca. 1875 Cast Figures at Pompeii

Textbook on Greek Sculpture, Emanuel Löwy, (Freud’s best friend) 1911

Egyptian mummy portrait and ruins: Seti I and the Stele of Ramses II James Henry Breasted, A History of Egypt, 1905

Vincenzo Galdi, Naples, ca. 1907 French, carte-de-visite, 1860’s Ethnographic/erotic Classicism/ Orientalism: Italy and Egypt Erotic/exotic/classical/slippage

The Slave Market Jean Léone Gérôme 1866 oil on canvas Egyptian woman by French photographer Carte-de-visite 1860’s

J. Barnett and Co. : Young Xosa [Xhosa] Woman in Costume; Wood Bowls and Gourd Container Nearby n. d. [late nineteenth century].

Young Xhosa Woman, ca. 1870 see Titian, Manet Ethnography or erotica? . Presence of colonialism?

Eugène Durieu nude study 1853 -4 Delacroix Odalisque Photographs for use by artists and designers (Orientalist subject by Delacroix)

Algerian woman, photograph, 1892

Gaétan Gatian de Clérambault, Draped Figure, Morocco, 1917 -20

Printed textiles, Mulhouse Adolphe Braun, Flower Study for textile design Colmar 1854 -5 William Morris Photographs for use by artists and designers

Brooch, Jugendstil, Vienna ca. 1900 Martin Gerlach, A World of Forms in Nature 1902 -4 Photographs for use by artists and designers

Film still 1896 Dr. Camillo Negro, Turin, Italy Dr. Charcot, Paris, photograph Medical and Psychiatric Photography

Medical and Psychiatric Photography Jean-Martin Charcot, La Salpêtrière, Paris Hysterical Epileptic Contracture and Melancholic Delirium Bourneville and Regnard (photographers), L’Iconographie photographique

Sarah Bernhardt as Phaedre Medical and Psychiatric Photography Jean-Martin Charcot, La Salpêtrière, Paris

Woman with Aneurism after “accidental shooting” 4 months pregnant at time of photograph Medical Photograph, USA, 1871 (slavery ended 1865) She was probably a slave.

John Draper, Orion Nebula, ca. 1880 Making the Invisible Visible Albert Montessier, photomicrographs 1866

Frederick A. Hudson (England) Lady Helena Newenham and the Spirit of Her Daughter June 4, 1872 Making the invisible: Spirit Photography

Making the invisible: Spirit Photography, Russia ca. 1905

X-ray negative Sun Fish 1896 Josef-Maria Eder (1855 -1944) Photochemist/ Historian of Photography Royal Imperial School Institute for Graphic and Photographic Research, 1888 Vienna, Capital of Austro-Hungarian Empire

X-ray Photograph Josef-Maria Eder Royal Imperial Institute for Graphic and Photographic Research, Vienna 1896

Gustav Klimt Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer (NY, Neue Galerie) Vienna 1907 Emil Zuckerkändel had him look through E A microscope at his wife’s salon

Ferdinand Schenk, Vienna ca. 1890 Microscopies of acid on metal surfaces

Roland Barthes 1915 -1980 Mme. Barthes and her son, Roland ca. 1920