Reception room of the Clarence White School in New York City – Historic Print
![Reception room of the Clarence White School in New York City, [ca. 1924] — historic photograph](https://images.jameslantos.com/img/93/93a3669317e4-L.webp)
(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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Reception room of the Clarence White School in New York City 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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Reception room of the Clarence White School in New York City
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The reception room of the Clarence H. White School of Photography in New York City is the subject of this small platinum print, made around 1924. Clarence White founded the school in 1914 to teach photography as an art, and its teachers and students were central to the Pictorialist movement, which valued soft focus, rich tonal range and hand-worked printing. Platinum paper, prized for its subtle gray tones and long tonal scale, was a favored process of the 1920s. The image offers a rare glimpse of the everyday setting where students and instructors met during the school's active years.
| Created / published | [ca. 1924] |
|---|---|
| Medium | 1 photographic print : platinum ; 4 1/2 x 3 9/16 in. |
| Genre | Platinum prints 1920-1930. |
| Notes | Stella F. Simon was affiliated with the Clarence H. White School of Photography. Date, 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. 141. Forms part of: Warren and Margot Coville collection. Purchase ; Coville Photographic Art Foundation ; 2001 ; (DLC/PP-2001:105). |
| Subjects | Clarence H. White School of Photography--New York (State)--New York--1920-1930. Art education--New York (State)--New York--1920-1930. Photography--New York (State)--New York--1920-1930. |
| Source | Library of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division |
| Original scan | 3,660 × 4,554 px · prints to 12 × 15 in at 300 dpi |
| Reference | AMZ-SOTP-HPA-223114 |
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