Gertrude Käsebier / by Lifshey. – Vintage Print
(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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A window into the past: Gertrude Käsebier / by Lifshey., preserved in this historic print. The original is held by the Library of Congress, so what you hang is a true record of its time.
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Gertrude Käsebier / by Lifshey.
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This is a portrait of Gertrude Käsebier, the American photographer who by 1900 was one of the best-known names in pictorial photography. The halftone, credited to Lifshey, ran in the July 1900 issue of *Camera Notes* (page 72), the journal of the Camera Club of New York, which was edited by Alfred Stieglitz. Käsebier took up photography in her forties, after raising a family, and built her reputation on soft-focus portraits, especially of mothers and children. Seeing a working photographer as the subject of a magazine illustration says something about how the pictorialist circle presented its own members as artists.
| Created / published | 1900 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photomechanical print: halftone. |
| Genre | Periodical illustrations 1900.Portraits 1900.Halftone photomechanical prints 1900. |
| Notes | Illus. in: Camera Notes, v. 4, no. 1, 1900 July, p. 72. |
| Subjects | Käsebier, Gertrude,--1852-1934. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,095 × 1,536 px · prints to 4 × 5 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-163740 |
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