The Invented Eye

Mini-history of photography. Iconic images and wonderful finds

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Harry Callahan, Chicago, 1955

Source: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

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Dr. John Adamson, Mrs. Godwin, 1850s

Source: The wonderful collection of victorian photography of National Museum of Scotland

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Robert Doisneau, The Tenement Building (montage), 1962

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Ansel Adams,  Half Dome, Thundercloud, Yosemite National Park, ca. 1956

Source:  Ansel Adams Archive, Center for Creative Photography (University of Arizona)

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Lynn Skordal, Sometimes I Have Bad Thoughts..., 2011

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Martin Munkacsi, 1930

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Harold Cazneaux, Sydney Bridge, Bridge pattern, Arch of steel, 1934

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Antoni Arissa, El beso (The kiss), ca. 1930-1936

Source: Archivo Arissa, Fundación Telefónica

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Stanley Kubrick, New York Subway – Young lovers, 1947

Source: Museum of the City of New York

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Oscar Graubner, Margaret Bourke-White On The Chrysler Building, 1935

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Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Sala au rocher de la vierge, Biarritz, 1927

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Julia Margaret Cameron, Annie, January 1864

In December 1863, Cameron, then aged forty-eight, received the gift of a camera from her daughter Julia. One month later, she took this portrait of Annie Philpot, describing it as "My very first success in photography, January 1864". For me, this is one of her most moving images.

"I was in a transport of delight. I ran all over the house to search for gifts for the child. I felt as if she entirely had made the picture. I printed, toned, fixed and framed it, and presented it to her father that same day: size 11 by 9 inches. Sweet, sunny haired Annie! No later prize has effaced the memory of this joy."

 Julia Margaret Cameron, Annals of my Glass House (1874)

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Lillian Bassman, "A Report to Skeptics", Harper's Bazaar, April 1952

(Source: Harper's Bazaar)

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Ashford Brothers, Mosaic carte de visite of 500 celebrity portraits, ca. 1863

9x5 cm. (3.6x2 inches)

“Upwards of five hundred photographic portraits of the most celebrated personages of the age. With a hand-magnifying glass, every portrait will be seen perfect”

I attest ;) 

(Source: Museo del Romanticismo)

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Vivian Maier, Self Portrait

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Francesc Català-Roca, Monumento a Colón, 1949

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Kenneth Josephson, Chicago, 1961

(Source: Museum of Contemporary Photography)