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Book Review
Thoroughly Modern: The Pioneering Life of Barbara Ker-Seymer, Photographer, and her Brilliant Bohemian Friends
12/2023 | 1449 | 165
Pages: 1376
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Hopkinson, Amanda (Hopkinson, Amanda)
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Thoroughly Modern: The Pioneering Life of Barbara Ker- Seymer, Photographer, and her Brilliant Bohemian Friends By Sarah Knights. 336 pp. incl. numerous b. & w. ills. (Virago, London, 2023), £22. ISBN 978–0–349–01151–6. | :
Exhibition Review
Yevonde: Life and Colour
10/2023 | 1447 | 165
Pages: 1140–1143
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Stein, Lisa (Stein, Lisa)
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Yevonde: Life and Colour National Portrait Gallery, London 22nd June–15th October | :
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19. Lord and Lady Derwent (Comtesse Sabine Czaykowska and George Harcourt Vanden-Bampde- Johnstone, 3rd Baron Derwent), by Yevonde. (Mark Evans Picture Library; exh. National Portrait Gallery, London).
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20. Muhammadu Kabir Usman (son of Usman Nagogo) and Ibrahim (son of Yusifu Lamba), grandsons of Muhammadu Dikko, Emir of Katsina, by Yevonde. 1933. Tri-colour separation negative, modern print exhibited. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
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21. Self-portrait with Vivex One- Shot Camera, by Yevonde. 1937. Tricolour separation negative, modern print exhibited. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
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22. Venus surrounded by mask and deep sea fish, by Yevonde. 1938. Tri-colour separation negative, modern print exhibited. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
Article
The Photography Centre at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London
05/2023 | 1442 | 165
Pages: 536-543
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Stein, Lisa (Stein, Lisa)
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1. The display of cameras at the entrance to the Photography Centre at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, in 2018. (Courtesy David Kohn Architects, London; photograph Will Pryce).
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10. Devotion, by Julia Margaret Cameron. 1865. Albumen print from wet collodion glass negative, 22.8 by 27.9 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, inv. no.45154).
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2. The Sir Elton John and David Furnish Gallery at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, in 2018. (Courtesy David Kohn Architects, London; photograph Will Pryce).
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3. Architectural rendering of the Kusama Gallery (Room 98) in the Photography Centre at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, designed by Gibson Thornley Architects (© Schmidt Massie).
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4. Architectural rendering of the Parasol Foundation Gallery (Room 97) in the Photography Centre at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. (© Gibson Thornley Architects).
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5. Self-portrait as walking woman with bag, 1979 Lima, Peru 2019 Los Angeles, CA, from the series 1979 contact negatives, by Tarrah Krajnak. 2019, printed in 2022. Cyanotype, 60.8 by 50.5 cm. (© Tarrah Krajnak; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; inv. no.PH.139-2023).
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6. Untitled, from the Black Balloon Archive, by Liz Johnson Artur. Chromogenic print, 50.8 by 61 cm. (© Liz Johnson Artur; Victoria and Albert Museum, London, inv. no.PH.1209).
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7. The Exhibition of the Photographic Society of London and the Société Française de Photographie at the South Kensington Museum, by Charles Thurston Thompson. 1858. Albumen print from wet collodion negative, 29 by 33.3 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, inv. no.2715-1913).
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8. Raphael Cartoon, The conversion of the proconsul also known as The blinding of Elymas, by Raphael, c.1515–16, by Charles Thurston Thompson. 1858. Scan from a glass plate negative, 91.4 by 91.4 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, inv. no.E.644-2017).
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9. Ancient ruins in the Canon de Chelle, New Mexico, by Timothy O’Sullivan. 1873. Albumen print, 20.1 by 27.3 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London, inv. no.PH.242-1979).
Article
‘Goethe’s house is severely wrecked’: Lee Miller at Buchenwald and Weimar
05/2023 | 1442 | 165
Pages: 502-512
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Günther, Katharina (Günther, Katharina)
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1. Lee Miller with the essentials of life, by David E. Scherman. 1945. Scan from a vintage negative, 6.1 by 6.1 cm. (Lee Miller Archives, East Sussex).
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10. An Allied flag (probably French) flies in the central courtyard of the Buchenwald concentration camp following liberation, by John M. Stix. April 1945. (United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, courtesy of Judith Saul Stix).
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11. Buidings in Weimar, by Lee Miller. 1945. Schiller’s House is shown in frames 50 and 51. Detail of a vintage contact sheet, 25.4 by 20.2 cm. (Lee Miller Archives, East Sussex).
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2. Buildings in Weimar, showing Goethe’s House in frames 8–12, by Lee Miller. 1945. Vintage contact sheet, 25.4 by 20.2 cm. (Lee Miller Archives, East Sussex).
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3. Released prisoners in striped prison dress beside a heap of bones from bodies burned in the crematorium at Buchenwald, by Lee Miller. Vintage negative, 5.7 by 5.5 cm. (Lee Miller Archives, East Sussex).
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4. The Deputy Bürgermeister’s daughter (Regina Lisso), by Lee Miller. 1945. Scan from a vintage negative, 5.7 by 5.6 cm. (Lee Miller Archives, East Sussex).
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5. Lee Miller in the bathtub in Hitler’s apartment, Munich, by Lee Miller with David E. Scherman. 1945. Vintage gelatin silver print, 11.4 by 10.8 cm. (Lee Miller Archives, East Sussex).
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6. Released prisoner, Buchenwald, by Lee Miller. 1945. Scan from a vintage negative, 5.7 by 5.5 cm. (Lee Miller Archives, East Sussex).
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7. Horrors of a concentration camp, unforgettable, unforgivable, by Lee Miller. 1945. Vintage contact print, 5.8 by 5.6 cm. (Lee Miller Archives, East Sussex).
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8. First funeral procession, Buchenwald, by Lee Miller. 1945. Vintage contact sheet, 25.7 by 20.2 cm. (Lee Miller Archives, East Sussex).
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9. First funeral procession, Buchenwald, by Lee Miller. 1945. Vintage contact print 5.9 by 5.6 cm. (Lee Miller Archives, East Sussex).
Article
A photograph of Ellen Terry by Julia Margaret Cameron
12/2021 | 1425 | 163
Pages: 1158-1161
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Author:
Busiakiewicz, Adam (Busiakiewicz, Adam)
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1. Ellen ‘Nelly’ Terry, by Julia Margaret Cameron. 1864. Albumen print mounted onto card, 24 by 19 cm. (Private collection).
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2. Ellen Terry (‘Choosing’), by George Frederic Watts. 1864. Oil on strawboard mounted on Gatorfoam, 47.2 by 35.2 cm. (National Portrait Gallery, London).
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3. Ellen Terry, by Julia Margaret Cameron. 1864. Albumen print, 24 by 19 cm. (Sotheby’s).
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4. Sadness, by Julia Margaret Cameron. 1864. Albumen silver print, 22 by 17 cm. (J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles).
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5. Anne Greville, 4th Countess of Warwick. Photograph. (Warwick Castle Collection).
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6. The south west wind, by Julia Margaret Cameron. 1864. Albumen silver print, 25.4 by 21.6 cm. (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York).
Article
Ilse Bing at Glyndebourne
12/2021 | 1425 | 163
Pages: 1140-1147
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Boot, Philip (Boot, Philip)
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1. John Brownlee as Don Giovanni and Marita Farell as Zerlina in ‘Don Giovanni’, Glyndebourne Festival, by Ilse Bing. 1937. Gelatin silver print, 28 by 19.4 cm. (Courtesy Glyndebourne Productions Ltd).
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10. Carl Ebert, by Ilse Bing. 1937. Gelatin silver print, 26 by 20.5 cm. (Courtesy Glyndebourne Productions Ltd).
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11. The house and lake at Glyndebourne, by Ilse Bing. 1937. Gelatin silver print, 19 by 28 cm. (Courtesy Glyndebourne Productions Ltd).
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12. Member of staff, Glyndebourne, by Ilse Bing. 1937. Gelatin silver print, 19.6 by 28 cm. (Courtesy Glyndebourne Productions Ltd).
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2. Ilse Bing at Glyndebourne. Photograph, 1937. (Courtesy Glyndebourne Archive Collection).
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3. Audrey Mildmay as Susanna, Aulikki Rautawaara as Countess Almaviva and Roy Henderson as Count Almaviva in rehearsal for ‘Le nozze di Figaro’, Glyndebourne Festival. 1934. Gelatin silver print, 9.1 by 13.6 cm. (Courtesy Glyndebourne Archive Collection).
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4. Aulikki Rautawaara as Countess Almaviva and Irene Eisinger as Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro, by Ilse Bing. 1937. Gelatin silver print, 20 by 28 cm. (Courtesy Glyndebourne Productions Ltd).
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5. Set design for Le nozze di Figaro at the Glyndebourne Festival, by Hamish Wilson, 1934. Charcoal and pastel on paper, 38 by 57 cm. (Glyndebourne Productions Ltd; photograph Theo Christelis).
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6. John Brownlee as Don Giovanni and Marita Farell as Zerlina in ‘Don Giovanni’, Glyndebourne Festival, by Ilse Bing. 1937. Gelatin silver print, 19.8 by 28 cm. (Courtesy Glyndebourne Productions Ltd).
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7. Ina Souez as Donna Anna, Koloman von Pataky as Don Ottavio, Luise Helletsgruber as Donna Elvira, Audrey Mildmay as Zerlina, and Roy Henderson as Masetto in ‘Don Giovanni’, Glyndebourne Festival, by Bill Brandt. 1936. Gelatin silver print, 16.8 by 21.5 cm. (© Bill Brandt; courtesy Glyndebourne Productions Ltd).
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8. Aulikki Rautawaara as Countess Almaviva in ‘Le nozze di Figaro’, Glyndebourne Festival, by Ilse Bing. 1937. Gelatin silver print, 27.3 by 16 cm. (Courtesy Glyndebourne Productions Ltd).
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9. Fritz Busch, by Ilse Bing. 1937. Gelatin silver print, 20.5 by 26 cm. (Courtesy Glyndebourne Productions Ltd).
Article
Isabel Agnes Cowper: Official Museum Photographer
12/2021 | 1425 | 163
Pages: 1120-1129
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Lederman, Erika (Lederman, Erika)
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1. Cast of the head of Michelangelo’s David in the Accademia di Belle Arte, Florence, by Isabel Agnes Cowper. 1881. Wet collodion negative on glass, approx. 30.5 by 25.4 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum Archive, London; negative no.11360).
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10. Still life, by Isabel Agnes Cowper. 1880. Albumen print, 10 by 13.7 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; acc. no.79790).
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11. Illustration from A. Montalba: ‘Fortunes Favourite: or the very wonderful adventures of Pista, the swineherd’ in Fairy Tales from All Nations with Twenty-Four Illustrations by Richard Doyle, London 1849, by Isabel Agnes Cowper. c.1840s. Wood engraving on India paper, 9 by 8.3 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; acc. no.17787).
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12. Pourpoint and slashed silk waistcoat, by Isabel Agnes Cowper. c.1873. Albumen print, 48.2 by 34.5 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; acc. no.74943A).
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13. Brussel’s bobbin lace, by Isabel Agnes Cowper. c.1876. Albumen print, 35.2 by 29.3 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; acc.no.76794A).
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2. Carved walnut wood frame with glass mirror, Italian, 16th century, by Isabel Agnes Cowper. c.1891. Albumen print, 26.7 by 22.8 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; acc. no.PH.113A-1891).
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3. Venetian mirror frame, carved and gilt, by Charles Thurston Thompson. 1853. Albumen print, 20 by 25 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; acc. no.33579).
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4. Candlestick, by Isabel Agnes Cowper. c.1870s. Albumen print, 10.5 by 8 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; acc. no.76635).
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5. Pair of gloves, embroidered on the back. Spanish(?), end of 16th century, by Isabel Agnes Cowper. c.1873. Albumen print, 23.2 by 16.7 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; acc. no.74710).
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6. Construction of Trajan’s column, with choir screen from the Cathedral of St John, ‘s-Hertogenbosch, the Netherlands, in background, by Isabel Agnes Cowper. 1873. Albumen print, 28.2 by 21.8 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; acc. no.73676).
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7. South Kensington Museum, interior staircase, Royal College of Science, by Isabel Agnes Cowper. c.1872. Albumen print, 24.5 by 19.4 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; acc. no.73381).
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8. South Kensington Museum quadrangle: the doorway and doors of the lecture theatre building, by Isabel Agnes Cowper. 1875. Albumen print, 23.4 by 16 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; acc. no.75957).
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9. Twelve-sided vessel, gold, Byzantine Gothic, late 5th century, by Isabel Agnes Cowper, from The Treasure of Petrossa and Other Goldsmith’s Work From Roumania: A Series of Twenty Photographs, London 1869. 1868. Albumen print, 20 by 23.5 cm. (Victoria and Albert Museum, London; acc. no.65871).
Exhibition Review
Vivian Maier
12/2021 | 1425 | 163
Pages: 1196-1199
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Stein, Lisa (Stein, Lisa)
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Vivian Maier Musée du Luxembourg, Paris 15th September 2021– 16th January 2022 | :
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27. Untitled, by Vivian Maier. Vintage chromogenic print, 25.5 by 20.2 cm. (Estate of Vivian Maier; courtesy Maloof Collection and Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York; exh. Musée du Luxembourg, Paris).
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28. Untitled, by Vivian Maier. 1960. Gelatin silver print, printed 2012, 40 by 50 cm. (Estate of Vivian Maier; courtesy Maloof Collection and Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York; exh. Musée du Luxembourg, Paris).
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29. Untitled, by Vivian Maier. 1959. Gelatin silver print, printed 2020, 40 by 50 cm. (Estate of Vivian Maier; courtesy Maloof Collection and Howard Greenberg Gallery, New York; exh. Musée du Luxembourg, Paris).