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
Pictured above: Patty Haller’s mother in the Smith & Vallee Gallery Patty Haller was invited to use the front studio space at the Seattle Artist League so she could prepare several large panels, including a 12′ painting for her January show “Growth Patterns” at the Smith & Vallee Gallery. Haller spent the fall and winter at the …
[image_with_animation image_url=”9977″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] “Imperfect Produce” promo pic To anthropomorphise is to ascribe human form or attributes to (an animal, plant, material object, etc.). – Dictionary.com SAL Challenge: Create living characters from inanimate objects. Materials are artist’s choice. Feel free to draw, paint, collage, or arrange and photograph. [image_with_animation image_url=”9978″ alignment=”center” animation=”None” box_shadow=”none” max_width=”100%”] …
Children with jack-o-lanterns, a sketch by Katie Jo Keppinger, in Thursday’s class for drawing and painting. I love Keppinger’s marks, bold and sensitive like Kathe Kollwitz, moody as Edvard Monk. This drawing uses a variety of edges and plenty of dark values and contrast to produce the sensation of glow. Organic circles, strong angles, and …
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
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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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