Monday, December 29, 2008


Executed (beheaded) Chinese. Canton, ca 1870.
Photographer: John Thomson.
(Vintage handcoloured albumen print)

Saturday, December 20, 2008



Avenue du Bois de Boulogne, Paris, 1929.

Photographer: Germaine Krull

(Vintage Photogravure)

Thursday, December 18, 2008



Egypt, ca 1877 (Unknown profession).

Photographer: David Robertson, Alexandria

Friday, December 12, 2008



Commune de Paris, 1871 (Pavillon de l'Horloge; Place du Carrousel).

Photographers: Ferrier & Lecadre, Paris

Sunday, December 07, 2008



Climbing the pyramid of Cheops, Egypt, ca 1890.

Photographer: P. Dittrich

Saturday, November 29, 2008


Émile Augier (French writer), ca 1875.
Photographer: Adam-Salomon (As he was also a painter, his photographs are outstanding examples of perfect compositions)

Tuesday, November 25, 2008



Place & Photographer unknown.

Probably Honduras, ca 1890.

Saturday, November 22, 2008



Beduines de Ghyzeh (Egypt), ca 1870.

Photographer: W. Hammerschmidt

Wednesday, November 19, 2008



Roma, Via della Pilotta. Ca 1900.

Photographer: Alinari Brothers

Thursday, November 13, 2008



Writing a letter. Ca 1865.

Photographer: Hector de Saedeler, Brussels, Belgium.

Tuesday, November 04, 2008


Photographer Hector de Saedeler, Brussels, Belgium, ca 1860 (with his camera).
Photographer unknown (selfportrait?).

Friday, October 31, 2008



Father & Son, ca 1865 (Belgium).

Photographer: Hector de Saedeler, Brussels, Belgium

Monday, October 27, 2008



Teresa Furtado, English artist, ca 1870.

Photographer unknown

Thursday, October 23, 2008



USA 1933.

Photographer: Marjorie Content

Thursday, October 16, 2008



Procession in Sankt Jakob, Austria, 1934.

Photographer: F. Boiteau (Paris)

Wednesday, October 15, 2008



Vendeur de Couvertures (Cloth vendor), 1870 (Egypt).

Photographer: W. Hammerschmidt.

Sunday, October 12, 2008



Youngsters on the Belgian beach, ca 1910.

(Vernacular photography).

Photographer unknown.

Tuesday, October 07, 2008



Mountaineers, Germany 1934.

Photographer: Hein Gorny

Saturday, October 04, 2008


Portrait of a woman with a bird.
Photographer: Harry Meerson, Paris (ca 1934).

Sunday, September 28, 2008


Abbas, 18 year old Khedive of Egypt (1892).
Photographer unknown.

Friday, September 26, 2008



Cat as photographer (1950's).

Photographer: F. Boldingh, Holland

Friday, September 19, 2008



Landing airship "Graf Zeppelin", Germany ca 1936.

Photographer unknown.

Tuesday, September 16, 2008



Sarah Bernhardt, ca 1876.

Photographer: Nadar (Felix Tournachon)

Saturday, September 13, 2008



USA, 1934.

Photographer: Edward Weston.

Tuesday, September 09, 2008


Shrine Charlemagne (Karlsschrein), Aachen, Germany. Photographer: Jacob Wothly, Aachen (ca 1865). Wothlytype (dead photographic process).
(Here you see the city of Pamplona whose walls collapse).

Friday, September 05, 2008


Seamen and sailingboats (1934).
Photographer: Brassaï, Paris.

Monday, September 01, 2008



High-key Nude (ca 1934).

Photographer: Bill Brandt, London

(vintage photogravure)

Friday, August 22, 2008



Railroadbridge (Lekbrug) at Culemborg (Holland),. 1867.

Photographer: Pieter Oosterhuis

Sunday, August 17, 2008



Black boy, ca 1933.

Photographer: Margaret Bourke-White, USA

Thursday, August 14, 2008



Landscape, ca 1933.

Photographer: Marjorie Content, USA



Bohemian nobility women, ca 1870.

Photographer: L. Angerer, Wien (Vienna)

Saturday, August 09, 2008



Black Nubian woman (Egypt, ca 1870).

Photographer unknown

(David Robertson, Photograph Vendor, Alexandria, Egypt)

Thursday, August 07, 2008



"Solarisation", ca 1934.

Photographer: Pierre Adam, Paris.

Tuesday, August 05, 2008



"Obélisque de Cléopâtre", Alexandria - Egypt, ca 1870. (Since 1879 in Central Park, New York).

Photographer: W. Hammerschmidt.

Friday, August 01, 2008



Norway, Hardangerjöklen, ca 1908.

Photographer: Anders Beer Wilse (also earlier active as photographer in Seattle/USA)

Thursday, July 31, 2008


Trieste, ca 1860, (Molo San Carlo).


Photographer unknown.

Saturday, July 26, 2008


"Solarisation" (ca 1948).
Photographer: André Thevenet, France.

Saturday, July 19, 2008


Barricade against German intruders, France 1914 (WW1).
Photographer unknown.


Professor Young, 1904.

Photographer: James Craig Annan.

(Vintage photogravure)



Hungarian Folk Dancers (Czardas), (no pants), 1938.

Photographer: Fr. Cornelissen, Antwerp.

Saturday, July 12, 2008


Leopold Stokowski (conductor), ca 1946.
Photographer: Yousuf Karsh

Thursday, July 10, 2008



Girl.

Photo by Campbell Studio, New York, 1902.

Tuesday, July 08, 2008



Girl with umbrella (Pictorial photo) ca 1910.

Photographer: Dwight A. Davis, USA

Sunday, July 06, 2008



Sailingboats off Sandy Hook, USA, 1903.

Photographer unknown.

Wednesday, July 02, 2008



Wooden shoe maker (Holland, 1944).

Photographer: Martien Coppens



Girl, dressed like a joker. Ca 1880.

Photographer unknown (London Stereoscopic Co)

Tuesday, June 24, 2008



Ève Curie, Paris, ca 1939.

Photographer: Philippe Pottier

Tuesday, June 17, 2008



Paris 1928, Place de l'Étoile.

Photographer: Germaine Krull.

Tuesday, June 10, 2008



Segovia, Spain. Roman Aquaduct (1920).

Photographer: Otto Wunderlich.

Sunday, June 01, 2008



Man in a room (1981).

Photographer: Paul de Nooijer, Holland.