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
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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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