Month: November 2010

November 17, 2010 — November 21, 2010

 

As a parallel exhibition to Hippolyte Bayard, Photography and the Spirit in Paris, we will show unusual and rare portraits from the 1850’s by artists such as Roger Fenton, Charles Marville and Charles Nègre at Paris Photo.

 

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PARIS PHOTO 2010 | www.parisphoto.com

 

Venue: Carrousel du Louvre, 99 rue de Rivoli, 75001 Paris, France

 

November 16, 2010 — November 27, 2010

 

In the gallery exhibition at Galerie Meyer, Daniel Blau Photography will be showing a marvellous collection of recently discovered prints:  A Bayard direct positive from 1839 will be on view, as well as some of the earliest known salt prints from glass negatives (1849).

 

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GALERIE MEYER – OCEANIC ART
Venue: 17 rue des Beaux-Arts, 75006 Paris, France

 

November 14, 2007 – November 18, 2007

 

Galerie Daniel Blau is proud to announce the exhibition “Autochromes — The Rise of Colour Photography” at Galerie Meyer, Rue des Beaux Arts, Paris.

 

100 years have now passed since the first commercially applicable method of colour photography was introduced. The method of colouring potato starch and making it light sensitive was publicized by the Lumière brothers in 1907 under the name “Autochrome”. Fixed on a glass-plate, this process resulted in the first coloured photographs one century ago. The variable grain in Autochromes is still of central importance to today’s photography — digital photography, colour printing and silk screens are based on it.

 

Even in their early stages, Autochromes were compared to the paintings of the pointilists and one can not help but be reminded of works of impressionism when taking in the strength of the colours and the painting-like depth of these impressions on glass.

 

This important collection, assembled over many years from dealers and fellow collectors worldwide, is now on view to the public for the first time. Using especially designed presentation frames, Daniel Blau will be exhibiting his significant collection of Autochromes, dating from 1895 to 1920, in the exhibition rooms of Galerie Meyer. Among other photographers, the images of such famous artists as Lumière, Gimpel and Knott will be shown. Atmospheric scenes of Parisian alleys hang by lively squares; large parks by lonely ruins; rugged cliffs can be viewed alongside calm ocean bays, while the intimate effect of the intense colours draws the viewer in.