The manger – Historic Reproduction
![The manger, [New York : Camera Club of New York, ca. 1900] — historic print](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/47/471b40fb0e68-L.webp)
(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 print of The manger. An authentic image from the Library of Congress, it carries the weight of the real historical record.
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Titled *The manger*, this photogravure turns a scene of a mother nursing her infant into a religious image, and its subject headings place it among portrayals of the Virgin Mary. It was made around 1900 by the Camera Club of New York, a group that championed photography as an art form and favored soft focus, tonal depth and carefully composed figures over sharp documentary detail. Photogravure, a photomechanical process that transfers an image to a copper plate for printing, gave these pictures the rich, velvety tones that pictorialists prized. The original negative dates to 1899, and Frances Benjamin Johnston gave the print to the Library of Congress in 1948.
| Created / published | [New York : Camera Club of New York, ca. 1900] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print : photogravure ; 21 x 15 cm. mounted on dark gray mat, 29 x 20 cm. |
| Genre | Photogravures 1900. |
| Notes | In portfolio: American pictorial photography, series 2, plate 2. Gift; Frances Benjamin Johnston; 1948. DLC Published in: Ambassadors of progress / edited by Bronwyn A.E. Griffith ... France : Musée d'Art Américain Giverny ... 2001, p. 159. Exhibited: Ambassadors of progress, 2001-2003. |
| Subjects | Mary,--Blessed Virgin, Saint--Portrayals. Breast feeding--1900. Mothers & children--1900. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,103 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-141187 |
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