Colgate's Ribbon Dental Cream / Rob't. Waida, 1922. – Historic 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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This rare historic photograph captures Colgate's Ribbon Dental Cream / Rob't. Waida, 1922. in remarkable detail. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Colgate's Ribbon Dental Cream / Rob't. Waida, 1922.
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Few advertising still lifes from the 1920s were made with the care visible here, where a tube of Colgate's Ribbon Dental Cream is the sole subject. The print is credited to Robert Waida, who also worked as I. Ueda and was linked to the Clarence H. White School of Photography, a center of Pictorialism that taught artists to treat camera work as a fine art. Commercial product photography of the period was often used to sell an everyday item, and this print shows how Pictorialist technique could lend a plain toothpaste tube the polish of a painting. The image is in the Library of Congress collection and was published in a 1996 study of the White School.
| Created / published | 1922 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : gelatin silver ; 6 7/8 x 8 9/16 in. |
| Genre | Gelatin silver prints 1920-1930.Still life photographs 1920-1930. |
| Notes | Robert Waida, also known as I. Ueda, was affiliated with the Clarence H. White School of Photography. Subject and physical description data provided by donor. Published in: Pictorialism into modernism: the Clarence H. White School of Photography / edited by Marianne Fulton; with text by Bonnie Yochelson and Kathleen A. Erwin, 1996, p. 159. Forms part of: Warren and Margot Coville collection. Purchase ; Coville Photographic Art Foundation ; 2001 ; (DLC/PP-2001:105). |
| Subjects | Colgate Company--Products--1920-1930. Toothpaste--1920-1930. Advertising--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 4,506 × 3,665 px · prints to 15 × 12 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-223096 |
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