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Photographs In Paris On July: A portfolio of twelve full-page reproductions of Steichen's photographs was published in the leading German photographic magazine, Die Photographische Rundschau for July 1902, with a laudatory article by Ernst Juhl, the art editor.36 So strong was the reaction of the readers that Juhl was forced to resign. But Steichen's work won recognition in Belgium; his The Black Vase, which Juhl had reproduced, was purchased by the government for the National Gallery in Brussels. And in October the jury of the prestigious Salon des Beaux-Arts held in the Champs de Mars, Paris, accepted ten Steichen's photographs to be shown along with one his paintings and six drawings.
The most luckless pioneer was Hippolyte Bayard, a clerk in the French Ministry of Finance, who exhibited thirty photographs in Paris on July 14,1839. His method was original: silver chloride paper was held to the light until it turned dark. It was then plunged into potassium iodide solution and exposed in the camera. The light bleached the paper in proportion to its strength, and he thus obtained direct positives, each unique.
The developing water is so hot I can hardly bear my hands in it."He returned to England in July, a sick man suffering from cholera. Exhibitions were held of the photographs in London and Paris; wood engravings of some of them were printed in the Illustrated London News; prints pasted on paper mounts with engraved titles, were sold by Agnew. The London Times wrote: "The photographer who follows in the wake of modern armies must be content with conditions of repose and with the still life which remains when the fighting is over." |
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