BULLETIN
Fish Hooks of the Pacific Islands Vol II
The sea, for those who live along the coast, is an important and even indispensable source of food
Precious Pictures The Daguerreotype Memento
The Daguerreotype initially took over from silhouette paper cutting (Scherenschnitt) and portrait painting and drawing
Daniel Blau has assembled an outstanding collection of photographs bearing testimony to the attack
Caligari, Golem & Co. – Glass Negatives
Today they are disappearing, for they have no place in digital photography
It sparkles and shines; it absorbs light, and it casts light back with a unique, effusive clarity. Water is omnipresent.
Digital technology has made the process of altering photographs faster and easier, more difficult to detect, and more accessible to more people – many more people – than at any point in history.
We associate green with Spring, with new birth and rebirth and plants as they sprout and grow.
The portrayal of the human figure is one of the oldest themes and subjects in the entire history of artistic expression.
In the history of art, the simple line drawn has always held a position of fundamental importance.
I SET TO WORK LIKE MANY OTHERS, AND SINCE THAT TIME I HAVE NOT STOPPED THINKING ABOUT OR PRACTICING THIS NEW ART FORM.
Glaciers are among the most beautiful natural wonders on Earth.
The Lumière Autochrome, invented and marketed by brothers Auguste and Louis Lumière, was the world’s first practical color photography process.
Stefan Zweig, “Die Welt von Gestern” (“The World of Yesterday”) Erich Kästner, “Der Gang vor die Hunde” (“Going to the Dogs”), forword to new edition, Munich, Summer 1946 All photographs are available for purchase. Prices upon request. For further information please send an email to: contact@danielblau.com All offers are […]
Photography was first introduced to Japan at a time of great upheaval in the country.
Yoshito Matsushige & Yōsuke Yamahata
Eyewitnesses of the final bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki
“How full of the creative genius is the air in which these are generated! I should hardly admire more if real stars fell and lodged on my coat.” Henry David Thoreau
A “found object” is understood to be an object, part of the everyday or natural surroundings, which is made into a work of art.
A Victorian Photographer Abroad
Francis Frith’s (1822-1898) photographic tours to Egypt in 1856-57 and 1859-60 were by far the most ambitious and systematic excursions of his time
“Travel to Egypt? They all start dancing with sheer joy,” he wrote. “As if that was something other than going to London.”
One of the most common printing processes developed in the 1850s is the carbon print.
So far yet so close: NASA Lunar Orbiter Photographs
The photographs taken by a machine are the remnants of one the first successful attempts at exploring our nearest celestial neighbour.
“Images enlarge the space, expand it – form tunnels into other worlds, make the room a Charles de Gaulle departure hall”
There are just a few examples of the ways in which artists have turned their attention to cars and car cultur
“It is not the camera but the skill of the operator that produces a realistic-looking photograph”
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