The Kodak Model 1 Box camera sold for $25 (about $680 today) with 100 exposures of film preloaded. The artist only needed to point and pull the wire (pre-shutter button). The winding key at the top enabled selfwinding. A camera reload cost $10 (about $250 today).
The photographs Breitner took were less static than the typical photographs of his contemporaries. Breitner experimented with perspectives, and photographed into the light, portraying scenes of urban vitality using deliberately blurred images.
Cityscape Painting and Sketches by George Hendrik Breitner
[caption id=”attachment_14203″ align=”aligncenter” width=”355 This Street View from the Hague is also available as a throw pillow or tote bag, but costs 30% more than the Singel Bridge (above) on Fine Art America
Geesje Kwak. Study for ‘The red kimono’, 1893. Photo by Breitner
Take a class with SAL – anywhere! ‘If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, then eight. Then sixteen. Then thirty-two. Eventually one discovers that it is not boring at all.’ – John Cage [image_with_animation image_url=”3394″ alignment=”” animation=”None John Milton Cage Jr. (September 5, 1912 – August 12, 1992) was …
Today’s memory challenge is to study an artwork done by a skilled artist. It can be a sculpture, rough sketch, finished drawing, painting, or print. For simplicity in this post, I’ll be using the word “draw,” but you are not restricted to drawings. Feel free to use any media, including sculpture. For simplicity in your …
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He couldn’t draw or paint. He didn’t consider himself an artist, instead he called himself a “maker” or “designer.” Living in New York City in the depression, Cornell became a collector of small objects and photographs, things he found on his walks through the city. One day in 1931, Cornell visited Julian Levy as he …
Photos and Cityscapes by George Hendrik Breitner
Kodak Box Model 1 (1889)
The Kodak Model 1 Box camera sold for $25 (about $680 today) with 100 exposures of film preloaded. The artist only needed to point and pull the wire (pre-shutter button). The winding key at the top enabled selfwinding. A camera reload cost $10 (about $250 today).
The photographs Breitner took were less static than the typical photographs of his contemporaries. Breitner experimented with perspectives, and photographed into the light, portraying scenes of urban vitality using deliberately blurred images.
See more of Breitner’s photographs on Flashbak: Impressionism as Street Photography: George Hendrik Breitner’s Streets of Amsterdam.
Cityscape Painting and Sketches by George Hendrik Breitner
[caption id=”attachment_14203″ align=”aligncenter” width=”355
This Street View from the Hague is also available as a throw pillow or tote bag, but costs 30% more than the Singel Bridge (above) on Fine Art America
Geesje Kwak. Study for ‘The red kimono’, 1893. Photo by Breitner
The Red Kimono, George Breitner
Girl in Red Kimono, by George Hendrik Breitner
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