Première Exposition Internationale de Photographie – Vintage Wall Art
(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.)
Description
A window into the past: Première Exposition Internationale de Photographie, preserved in this historic photograph. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.
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Première Exposition Internationale de Photographie
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This color lithograph advertises the Première Exposition Internationale de Photographie, held in Paris in 1892, and the record credits its printing to Affiches-Camis. Like many Parisian posters of the period, it combines bold color and large lettering to catch the eye of passersby on the street. The 1890s were a boom time for commercial color lithography, and the medium was widely used to promote theaters, exhibitions and consumer goods. Photography was still gaining acceptance as an art form then, so an international show devoted to it drew attention in the city's press. The catalog record notes that some of its details come from older, unverified caption data, so the exhibition's exact organizers and venue are worth checking against other sources.
| Created / published | 1892 |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 print (poster) : color ; 130 x 100 cm. |
| Subjects | Color lithograph by Affiches-Camis. Promotional goal: Fr. K94. 1892. Exchange, Bibliothèque Nationale, Paris. This record contains unverified, old data from caption card. Caption card tracings: 1. Photographers--1892. I. Title. II. 1892. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 1,309 × 1,686 px · prints to 4 × 6 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-173946 |
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