Comments on: Masterpieces of early photography

Masterpieces of early photography

Kattullus — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:26:18 -0800

More than 5000 masterpieces of early photography gathered by German site zeno.org. Here they are arranged by photographer. Among the photographers are Eadweard Muybridge, Louis Daguerre, Timothy H. O'Sullivan, Jacob Riis and Lewis Carrol. There are way too many interesting photographs in here to mention, so here are but a few: Tolstoy brandishing a pen at Chekov, dapper German, running soldier, old guy and typewriter and men dressed for a costume party.

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:30:39 -0800

The costume party picture is by Hermann Krone, an interesting photographer I found on zeno.org.

By: ardgedee

ardgedee — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:36:06 -0800

I love old photography. Thanks for the link. > old guy and typewriter I believe that's a writing desk.

By: DU

DU — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:39:30 -0800

(I had to come back here to determine which was the dapper German and which the costume party.)

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:39:41 -0800

Oops! That's what I get for trying to make sense of captions in languages I don't know.

By: ardgedee

ardgedee — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 11:41:32 -0800

Some of the printed ephemera is pretty great too: Alter Kurs; Ere yar!...; A Casa.

By: ardgedee

ardgedee — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:11:24 -0800

> That's what I get for trying to make sense of captions in languages I don't know. You didn't confuse it with a raven, and that's the important thing.

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:13:48 -0800

I keep going back to that picture of the costumed men. The guy dressed like a Greek column seems especially unhappy with his choice of attire. His face radiates: "Scheiße! Why the poop did I decide to dress as an architectural feature?!"

By: cjorgensen

cjorgensen — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:14:27 -0800

Damn, I came up with (0 Treffer) for nackte Frau!

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:17:52 -0800

ardgedee: You didn't confuse it with a raven, and that's the important thing. Oh man! I can't believe I missed the opportunity to make a cheap Lewis Carrol joke in a post which features the ~~old pervert~~ great japester.

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:21:01 -0800

cjorgensen: Damn, I came up with (0 Treffer) for nackte Frau! It's all about knowing where to look. [nsfw]

By: fixedgear

fixedgear — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 12:23:12 -0800

Awesome, thanks. Not just photos but great pen and ink drawings of my favorite subject, the fahrrad.

By: fings

fings — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:02:53 -0800

Kattullus: Or over here. [nsfw]

By: Kattullus

Kattullus — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:09:18 -0800

Good ol' Rejlander. MaryDellamorte made a good post about him a few months back which linked to his zeno.org collection.

By: omegar

omegar — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:09:41 -0800

I can't seem to find the page, in the site, for the credits and explanation of the photograph of Tolstoy and Chekov. None of the terms I've tried searching for was of any use (tolstoi, tolstoj, tolstoy, chejov, chekov). I mostly need to know who was it that took the picture and in what year and where. Could you provide the in-site link besides the image link? If they indeed are Chekov and Tolstoy the photo would be very useful to me. Thnx.

By: omegar

omegar — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:11:43 -0800

Scrap my last comment, please. I've found it by searching for Čechov. Cheers!

By: strangecargo

strangecargo — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 13:24:12 -0800

One of my all-time favorites: Eugène Atget.

By: Countess Elena

Countess Elena — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 16:46:48 -0800

Is this an okay place to post about how annoying Muybridge's choice of the name Eadweard is? It's so precious. Eadweard Eadweard Eadweard. It is definitely a good place to mention the American nineteenth-century photography at shorpy.com.

By: squalor

squalor — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:28:44 -0800

1839. First human figure ever photographed (man on the street getting his shoes shined; he held still long enough to be captured by Daguerre's camera).

By: nickyskye

nickyskye — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:54:20 -0800

Nice photograph of Charles Darwin from that site.

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 17:57:21 -0800

Amazingly, none of Lewis Carrol's photos will have the Feds knocking down my door.

By: jouke

jouke — Fri, 15 Aug 2008 20:59:24 -0800

Using the Zufälliger Artikel link, that provides a random picture from the collection, I stumbled on a set of pictures of Ludwig II of Bavaria and family, Wagner etc.

By: UbuRoivas

UbuRoivas — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 00:52:05 -0800

He looks completely sane to me.

By: sagar13d

sagar13d — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 01:02:49 -0800

I Love this old Photography.

By: Harry

Harry — Sat, 16 Aug 2008 08:04:15 -0800

Today's moment of zen for me: through the randomiser, I stumbled upon this very sad photo. By a certain Thomas John Barnardo. He was quite remarkable.