Painted photography backdrops
From roughly 1860 to 1920[1][2] painted photography backdrops were a standard feature of early photography studios. Generally of rustic or quasi-classical design, but sometimes presenting a bourgeoisie trompe-l'œil,[3] they eventually fell out of fashion with the advent of the Brownie and Kodak cameras which brought photography to the masses with concurrent changes to public sensibility. Inasmuch as they were produced for six decades by local artisans, they can provide important clues to the provenance of old family photographs for genealogical research,[4][5][6] and their staged influence lives on in "old-timey" photography sets.[7][8] Furthermore, they are of some interest to specialized collectors of the history of photography.[9]
Gallery
- Illinois, 1862
- Sara Forbes Bonetta photographed by Camille Silvy, Great Britain, 1862
- Japanese men in 1870 with Irezumi
- Scotland, 1875
- India, before 1877
- France, 1870-1879
- The Town of Berlin (now Kitchener) Ontario, 1878
- Frederick Douglass with his second wife Helen Pitts Douglass and her sister (standing), c. 1884
- Leon Trotsky, 1888, Russia
- One of the Barrison sisters, Berlin, 1903
- Johannes Holzmann, 1914, Europe
- Guide Alice, Victoria, Australia, c. 1900-30
References
- ↑
- ↑ "old time religion by Jim Linderman: Art Tintype Book The Painted Backdrop by Jim Linderman". 21 March 2018.
- ↑ "Antique Photography & Photo Collecting - Timebinder". timebinder.net.
- ↑ "Backgrounds in Old Photos - Family Tree". 22 January 2008.
- ↑ "RootsWeb.com Home Page". freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com.
- ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2010-03-30. Retrieved 2010-06-16.
- ↑ "Ashley Nostalgia". Ashley Nostalgia.
- ↑ "Ol' Time Studio Backdrops - RetouchPRO". www.retouchpro.com.
- ↑ "From Ambrotypes to Stereoviews, 150 Years of Photographs".
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