RetroFutureGround

The Future of the Past

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Model at Musei Capitolini with the hand of the Emperor Constantine. For Harper’s Bazaar, Italy, 1962. Photograph by Jeanloup Sieff.

With great tenacity, Sieff pursued a personal and highly effective signature style, soaked in playful imagination with a touch of irony. Seldom working in colour, he favoured the discipline of black and white, often using to his advantage the spatial distortion of wide-angle lenses, the dramatic potential of shadow and exploitation of tone.

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Kinetic Study, Photo by Luigi Veronesi, 1940

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St. Catherine tunnel mouth, Sotteville-lés-Rouen ,1931-1932.

@ François Kollar

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Wood Carving by Heinrich Douvermann, 1535 

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The sleek Tat 230 800 in Paris Saint-Lazare, 1937. Photo by Unknown CC BY SA 3.0

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Night Time Metropolis, Photo by Heinz Hajek-Halke, 1951

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Othmar Maudry - Owl, 1930s

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William Happich - Reeds, c.1930

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Oskar Kaubisch - Schloss Hinterglauchau, unterirdische Gänge, 1926

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Kurt Herschel - Gerandete Jagdspinne (Dolomedes fimbriatus Cl.), 1932

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Ikko Narahara

From "Japanesque Noh"

1968

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Image from page 690 of The Bell System technical journal (1922)

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Margaret Bourke-White The Towering smokestacks of the Otis Steel Co., Cleveland 1927-1928

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Russian Soldiers pose in Zelenski Kummat gas masks for a photograph - World War 1.

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François Kollar

A Working Eye

from 09 February 2016 until 22 May 2016

Jeu de Paume, Concorde, Paris

* Fleur d‘ail, années 1930

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Ivan Leonidov, Lenin Institute of Librarianship, project, 1927 

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Lick Observatory, Solar Eclipse, September 21, 1922

notes: 40 foot camera, Inst. Exp. Beginning at totality (glass negative)