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Pinhole landscape – Vintage Wall Art

Pinhole landscape, [no date recorded on caption card] — historic photograph
Pinhole landscape, [no date recorded on caption card]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Few images capture their era like this historic photograph of Pinhole landscape. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.

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Among the cyanotypes on this board, this pinhole landscape stands out for how it was made: a camera with no lens, just a tiny opening that lets light reach the sensitized paper. Pinhole views typically have soft detail and great depth of field, which sets them apart from lens-made pictures. The cyanotype process, introduced by English scientist John Herschel in 1842, produces the characteristic blue tones. The subject is trees, and the record notes the print was a gift from J.S. Farnsworth in 1952, though its date of creation is unknown.

Created / published[no date recorded on caption card]
Medium1 photographic print : cyanotype.
GenreCyanotypes.
NotesRef. copy may be in SSF - TREES. This record contains unverified data from caption card, with later updates. Gift; J.S. Farnsworth; 1952. Caption card tracings: Trees; Mph.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 1,113 px · prints to 5 × 4 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-157414

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