sloth unleashed

Emily Pitchford - Suspense, ca. 1908

work by San Francisco Bay Area Pictorialist photographer (via)

(Thanks to Les Petits Maîtres.)

Clarence Hudson White

The Kiss, 1904

Platinum print

[From the Réunion des Musées Nationaux]

Edward Steichen

Dolor, 1903

Photogravure

From Stieglitz: Camera Work

Henry Peach Robinson

Jenny

Albumen print, 1857

From Impressionist Camera: Pictorial Photography in Europe, 1888-1918

Robert Demachy

Profile

Photogravure, 1896

[From the National Media Museum Collection]

Anne Brigman, Storm Tree, 1915

Alvin Langdon Coburn

The Bubble, circa 1908

Gum bichromate over platinum print

From Alvin Langdon Coburn: Photographs 1900-1924

Arthur F. Kales

Nude in Wood, circa 1925

Bromoil transfer print

From the National Media Museum Collection

Edward Steichen

Wind Fire, 1920

Gelatin silver print

From Women’s Camera Work: Self/Body/Other in American Visual Culture

Louis Fleckenstein

Play of Sunlight

Los Angeles, 1912

Bromide Print

[From the Museum of Photographic Arts Collections]

Anne Brigman

The Heart of the Storm, 1902

Gelatin silver print

From 1000 Photo Icons

Bookplate, 1921 (Alfred Cohn)

In a Dancer’s Studio, 1922 (Wayne Albee)

Edward Steichen - La Rose, c.1901.

… from Edward Steichen: Lives in Photography, by Todd Brandow and William A. Ewing, Foundation for the Exhibition of Photography, and the Musee de l’Elysee, Lausanne, 2007. 

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