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Photographs from the Collection 1840-1940

John Pultz, curator

North Balcony, Spencer Museum of Art, University of Kansas, Lawrence, Kansas

The history and development of photography is charted in this installation from the permanent collection.

Photographs from the Collection. Part 1: North Balcony Gallery. A historical survey made up of highlights from the collection, covering the first 100 years of photography, from 1840 to 1940. These photographs will be up throughout the fall semester, and may well be up through March 2004.

Works of art

Berenice Abbott (1898–1991), Ninth Ave. Line and Corner of Radio Row, Cortlandt Street, New York

David Octavius Hill (1802–1870); Robert Adamson (1821–1848); Jessie Bertram, Edinburgh Ale

Anderson Studio, untitled

Thomas Annan (1829–1887), Close No. 139, Saltmarket

Edward Anthony (1818–1888); Henry Tiebout Anthony (1814–1884), View of the James River Pontoon Bridge, from South Side

untitled (three musicians)

untitled (portrait of a shoemaker/cobbler)

Mathew B. Brady (1823–1896), portrait of Ulysses S. Grant

portrait of a roaring man with a chair

portrait of man

unknown maker, portrait of baby

portrait of woman in lace gloves

portrait of man in suit

unknown maker, portrait of man

unknown maker, portrait of woman with flowers

portrait of young woman standing between two men

portrait of woman

portrait of man wearing eyeglasses

Eugène Atget (1857–1927), Place du Tertre, Mars

Anna Atkins (1799–1871), Robinia pseudo-acacia (America)

Edouard-Denis Baldus (1813–1889), St. Ricquier

Edouard-Denis Baldus (1813–1889), Lyon, Viaduct du Rhone (Lyon Viaduct Over the Rhone)

George N. Barnard (1819–1902), Scene of General McPherson's Death

Felice Beato (1825–circa 1905), Fujiyama from Hamahaka

Hans Bellmer (1902–1975), La Poupée (The Doll)

Ernest James Bellocq (1873–1949); Lee Friedlander (born 1934), Seated Woman in Tights with Hands Behind Head

Ilse Bing (1899–1998), Avenue du Maine, Paris

Karl Blossfeldt (1865–1932), Papaver Mohn

Félix Bonfils (1831–1885), El-Arhar avec Muerzins

Margaret Bourke-White (1904–1971), Through a Windshield, the 40-mile Baltimore-Washington Stretch is One Long Clutter of Ugly Signs

Mathew B. Brady (1823–1896), 1st or 2nd Maine, Near Hall's Hill

Bill Brandt (1904–1983), Parlourmaid Preparing a Bath before Dinner

Brassaï (1899–1984), Brothel, Rue Quincampoix, Paris ca. 1932

Francis Joseph Bruguière (1879–1945), untitled

Claude Cahun (1894–1954), untitled (self-portrait)

Etienne Carjat (1828–1906), Charles Baudelaire

Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908–2004), Madrid

Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882–1966), The Cloud, Bavaria, Plate #1

Imogen Cunningham (1883–1976), Agave I

Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868–1952), Girl and jar - San Ildefonso

Louis De Clercq (1836–1901), Edfou, Grande Facade des Ruines, #9 [Edfour, Great Facade of Ruins, #9]

Adolf de Meyer (1868–1949), Still life (Waterlilies)

Robert Demachy (1859–1936), untitled

André Adolphe-Eugène Disdéri (1819–1889), Le Peintre Decamps et sa Famille (The Painter Decamps and his Family)

Peter Henry Emerson (1856–1936), A Reed Cutter at Work

Frederick Henry Evans (1853–1943), North Porch, Wells Cathedral

Walker Evans (1903–1975), Farmer's Kitchen, Hale County, Alabama

Francis Frith (1822–1898), Pillars in the Great Hall Karnac

Francis Frith and Company (active 1859–1871), untitled

Alexander Gardner (1821–1882), State House at Topeka, Kansas

Laura Gilpin (1891–1979), Estes Park

John K. Hillers (1843–1925), Canyon del Muerte, from Mummy Cave

Lewis Wickes Hine (1874–1940), Young Girl in Textile Factory

William Henry Jackson (1843–1942), Phantom Curve

Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864–1952), untitled

Gertrude Stanton Käsebier (1852–1934), Mother and Child

Gertrude Stanton Käsebier (1852–1934), Mother and Child

André Kertész (1884–1985), Distorted Nude #40

Russell Lee (1903–1986), Mexican beet worker washing up after a day's work near East Grand Forks, Minnesota

Noël Marie Paymal Lerebours (1807–1873), Louqsor

Charles Marville (1816–1879), Rue Thérèse (de la rue du Hasard)

Eadweard Muybridge (1830–1904), Plate 361

Nadar (1820–1910), Portrait of George Sand

Timothy H. O'Sullivan (1840–1882), Pontoon Bridge Across the Rappahannock

Timothy H. O'Sullivan (1840–1882), Rock Carved by Drifting Sand Below Fortification Rock, Arizona

Jon Blumb (born 1956); Joseph Judd Pennell (1866–1922), Gilbert Emick at Smoky Hill River

Man Ray (1890–1976), Rayograph #182

Oscar Gustav Rejlander (1813–1875), Young Girl with Posies

Gunther Sander; August Sander (1876–1964), Hod Carrier, Cologne

George Henry Seeley (1880–1955), The Burning of Rome

Charles Sheeler (1883–1965), Chartres, Flying Buttresses

Arthur S. Siegel (1913–1978), Right of Assembly

John Stanton (1799–1888), untitled (Collegiate Church of St Mary, Warwick)

Edward Steichen (1879–1973), Rockefeller Center

Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946), The Steerage

Paul Strand (1890–1976), From the Viaduct, New York

John Thomson (1837–1921), Cast Iron Billy

Carleton Emmons Watkins (1829–1916), Rooster Rock, Columbia River

Edward Weston (1886–1958), Rosa Roland de Covarrubias in Tehuana Costume, Mexico

Events

October 2, 2003

Talk

Intern Sean Barker on 19th and Early 20th-Century Photography

12:15–1:15PM

Gallery 404

October 30, 2003

Screening

American Photography: A Century of Images

6:00–7:00PM

309 Auditorium

November 1, 2003

Workshop

Picture That!

10:30AM–12:30PM

Gallery 404

November 1, 2003

Workshop

Picture That!

1:30–3:30PM

November 13, 2003

Talk

Artist Nikki Lee

7:00–8:00PM

309 Auditorium

Resources

Documents

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