September 9, 2010, Filed Under: Exhibitions + Events, PhotographyImages from "Discovering the Language of Photography: The Gernsheim Collection" The exhibition, Discovering the Language of Photography: The Gernsheim Collection, is on display at the Ransom Center through January 2. View a sampling of images from the show in the below slideshow. Please click on thumbnails for larger images. David Wilkie Wynfield, “John Everett Millais as Dante,” 1863. Albumen print. 21.1 x 16.1 cm. Frank Meadows Sutcliffe, “Excitement,” 1888. Platinum print. 14.6 x 20.5 cm. Paul Strand, “Plaza. State of Puebla,” 1933. Photogravure. 40.4 x 31.7 cm. © Aperture Foundation Inc., Paul Strand Archive. [Attributed to] John Stewart, “Man and Horse,” ca. 1852. Positive waxed salted-paper print. 18.6 x 26.0 cm. Southworth and Hawes [Albert Sands Southworth and Josiah Johnson Hawes], “River View with Seated Figure,” ca 1854. Stereo daguerreotypes. 21.4 x 16.4 and 21.4 x 16.4 cm. Paul Strand, “Plaza. State of Puebla,” 1933. Photogravure. 40.4 x 31.7 cm. © Aperture Foundation Inc., Paul Strand Archive. Robert Howlett, “Isambard Kingdom Brunel, before the Anchor Chains of the Great Eastern,” 1857. Albumen print. 28.8 x 22.8 cm. Peter Keetman, “Ice on Lake During A Snowfall,” 1958. Gelatin silver print. 29.9 x 40.2 cm. © Peter Keetman / F.C. Gundlach. Clarence John Laughlin, “Three Vistas through One Wall,” 1937. Gelatin silver print. 26.4 x 36.8 cm. © The Historic New Orleans Collection. Felix H. Man, “Mussolini in His Study at Palazzo Venezia,” Rome, 1931. Gelatin silver print. 29.4 x 39.2 cm. © Estate of Felix H. Man. “New Photo Vision” by Helmut Gernsheim. Herbert George Ponting, “The ‘Terra Nova’ at the Ice Foot,” 1910. Gelatin silver print. 38.3 x 30.4 cm. Emil Otto Hoppé, “Ship in Dry Dock,” 1927. Gelatin silver print. 22.4 x 27.8 cm. © 2010 The E.O. Hoppé Estate Collection. Curatorial Assistance, Pasadena, California. A revised and enlarged 1969 edition of “A History of Photography: From the Camera Obscura to the Beginning of the Modern Era” by Helmut Gernsheim in collaboration with Alison Gernsheim. Originally published by the Oxford University Press in 1955. David Octavius Hill, “A Newhaven Pilot,” ca. 1845. Salted paper print. 14.6 x 20.3 cm. Fritz Henle, “Exhausted Mine Worker – Germany,” 1966. Gelatin silver print. 51.0 x 50.0 cm. © Fritz Henle Estate. Lady Hawarden Clementina, “At the Window,” 1864. Albumen print. 20.5 x 15.3 cm. Unidentified Photographer. Helmut and Alison Gernsheim hanging an exhibition at Wayne State University, Detroit, Michigan. 1963. Gelatin silver print. Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre, “Notre Dame and the Ile de la Cité,” Paris, ca 1838. Daguerreotype. 15.5 x 20.6 cm. Harold E. Edgerton, “Baton in Action,” 1948. Gelatin silver print. 25.4 x 20.6 cm. © The Harold and Esther Edgerton Family Foundation, Courtesy Palm Press, Inc. Official image of the First Photograph in 2003, minus any manual retouching. Joseph Nicéphore Niépce’s “View from the Window at Le Gras.” c. 1826. Gernsheim Collection Harry Ransom Center / University of Texas at Austin. Photo by J. Paul Getty Museum. Francis Frith, “The Pyramids of El-Geezeh, From the South-West,” 1859. Albumen print. 37.7 x 48.8 cm. Helmut Gernsheim, “Spiral Staircase at St. Paul’s Cathedral: Looking Down,” 1943. Gelatin silver print. 38.0 x 29.7 cm. Hans Hammarskiöld, “Frosty Grass,” 1952. © Hans Hammarskiöld. Winifred Casson, “Accident,” ca. 1935. Gelatin silver print. 29.4 x 24.4 cm. Julia Margaret Cameron, “Study of Child’s Head,” ca. 1866. Albumen print. 34.0 x 26.4 cm. Sir Cecil Walter Hardy Beaton, “Tank Debris. After the Battle. Sidi Rezegh.,” 1942. Gelatin silver print. 20.5 18.7 cm. © The Cecil Beaton Studio Archive at Sotheby’s. Charles Dudley Arnold, “Manufacturers and Liberal Arts Building,” 1893. Platinotype print. 43.1 x 51.9 cm. Fratelli Alinari, Florence. “Statue of Cosimo Primo,” ca. 1858. Albumen print. 34.2 x 26.0 cm.
