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[Profile portrait of woman draped with a veil] / A.C. Van Buren. – Vintage Photo Print

[Profile portrait of woman draped with a veil] / A.C. Van Buren., [ca. 1900] — historic photograph
[Profile portrait of woman draped with a veil] / A.C. Van Buren., [ca. 1900]. Historic photograph from the Historic Print Archive 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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[Profile portrait of woman draped with a veil] / A.C. Van Buren. comes to life in this historic photograph, reproduced from the original with every detail intact. It comes from the collections of the Library of Congress, scanned from the original and carefully restored.

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[Profile portrait of woman draped with a veil] / A.C. Van Buren.

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In this profile portrait, the sitter's face is turned away from the camera while a veil drapes over her head and shoulders, so the outline of her figure does most of the work. The print is a platinum photograph by A.C. Van Buren of Detroit, dated around 1900, and the maker's signature appears on the mount. Platinum printing, valued for its soft tonal range and matte surface, was a favored process among art photographers of the period who aimed for painterly effects. The Library of Congress holds this print within the artistic photographs that Frances Benjamin Johnston collected and gave in 1948, and it was later reproduced in the exhibition catalog *Ambassadors of Progress*.

Created / published[ca. 1900]
Medium1 photographic print : platinum.
GenrePortrait photographs 1900.Platinum prints 1900.
NotesLibrary owns 2 impressions. Photo no. 1a is 14.9 x 10 cm. mounted on black mat, 29 x 23 cm. Photo no. 1b is 15 x 10 cm. on Rembrandt mount, 31 x 25 cm. Title devised. Signed on mount. DLC Photo no. 1a On verso: A.C. Van Buren, Detroit. DLC Photo no. 1a FBJ label no. 106. 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. 177. Exhibited: Ambassadors of progress, 2001-2003. DLC
SubjectsWomen--1900.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,045 × 1,536 px · prints to 3 × 5 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-141200

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