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Hunger ist der beste Koch / MAW. – Historic Reproduction

Hunger ist der beste Koch / MAW., 1898 — historic photograph
Hunger ist der beste Koch / MAW., 1898. Historic photograph from the Family Life 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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The German proverb "Hunger ist der beste Koch," meaning "hunger is the best cook," gives this 1898 carbon print its title and its good-humored tone. Myra Albert-Wiggins made the picture, and the record names Mildred Wiggins as its subject. Carbon printing, a pigment process prized for its soft tones, let photographers present such genre scenes as fine art, and this one won prizes in London and Buffalo after appearing at a 1899 Philadelphia salon.

Created / published1898
Medium1 photographic print : carbon ; 11.1 x 16.2 cm. mounted on ochre card, 16.7 x 23.7 cm.
GenreCarbon prints 1890-1900.Genre photographs 1890-1900.
NotesTitle from item. Signed with artist's monogram. DLC On verso: Hunger ist der Beste Koch, photograph by Myra Albert-Wiggins (1898). Subject: Mildred Wiggins. 1899 (Hung) Phil. Salon etc. Prizes London & Buffalo, N.Y. DLC Forms part of: Artistic photographs collected by Frances Benjamin Johnston in the Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection. DLC 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. 186. Exhibited: Ambassadors of progress, 2001-2003. DLC
SubjectsChildren eating & drinking--1890- 1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan5,000 × 4,004 px · prints to 17 × 13 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-222409

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