Live!: A History of Art. Week 5, day 2

Mar 25, 2014 22:32

The “Instantaneous” Certainly Took a While
Honoré Daumier (February 26, 1808 - February 10, 1879) was a French printmaker, caricaturist, painter, and sculptor, whose many works offer commentary on social and political life in France in the 19th century.


Honoré Daumier: „Position réputée la plus commode pour avoir un joli portrait au Daguerréotype“, aus der Serie „Les bons bourgeois“ in der Zeitschrift Le Charivari, 24. Juli 1847, Lithografie, 24,7 x 21,7 cm

Timothy H. O'Sullivan (c. 1840 - January 14, 1882) was a photographer widely known for his work related to the American Civil War and the Western United States.


"The Harvest of Death": Union dead on the battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, photographed July 5-6, 1863



Unknown photographer Barricade rue Saint-Sébastien au carrefour avec le boulevard Richard-Lenoir - Bibliothèque historique de la Ville de Paris. 1871
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