Etienne Carjat - Charles Baudelaire, December, 1861/1878

Maker: Etienne Carjat (1828-1906)
Born: France
Active: France
Medium: woodburytype
Size: 9 in x 7 in
Location: France

Object No. 2009.072
Shelf: B-7

Publication: Galerie Contemporaine, Vol 1, No 1, 1878
David Acton, Keeping Shadows, Photography at the Worcester Museum of Art, Hudson Hills Press, NY, pg 83
Maria Morris Hambourg, Nadar, Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY, 1994, fig 44
The History of Photography, Helmut Gernsheim, Oxford University Press, London, 1955, pl 233
Beaumont Newhall, Photography and the Book, Trustees of The Public Library of the City of Boston, Boston, 1983, Pl XV
Helmut Gernsheim, A Concise History of Photography, Thames and Hudson, London, 1965, pl 98
Photography:the first eighty years, Colnaghi, London, 1976, pg 71
Helmut Gernsheim, The Rise of Photography 1850-1880, The Age of Collodion, Thames and Hudson, London, 1988, pg 216
Coke, Van Deren, The Painter and the Photograph, The University of New Mexico Press, 1964, pg 20
The Truthful Lens: A Survey of the Photographically Illustrated Book 1844-1914, Lucien. Goldschmidt, The Grolier Club (1980), pl 31
Collection M.+ M. Auer, une histories de la photographie, Editions M.+ M, Hermance, 2003, pg 133
Alles Wahrheit! Alles Luge!, Photographie und Wirklichkeit im 19. Jahrhundert, Museen de Stadt Koln, 1996, pg 142
Icons of Photography, The 19th Century, Prestel, Munich, 2002, pg 55
Rosenblum, Naomi, A World History of Photography, Abbeville Press, New York, 1997, pl 93
Marien, Mary Warner, Photography, A Cultural History, Harry N. Abrams, New York, 2002, fig 3.92
Pioneer der Kamera, Das Erste Jahrhundert Der Fotografie 1840-1900, Fotoforum Bremen, 1987, pg 171
Sobieszek, Robert, Ghost in the Shell, Photography and the Human Soul, 1850-2000, MIT Press, Cambridge, 1999, pg 50
Sylvain Morand, La Memoire Oubliee, Du Daguerreotype au Collodion, Musees de Strasbourg, Strasbourg, 1981, pl 213
Etienne Carjat, 1828-1906 Photographe, Musee Carnavalet, Paris, 1982, pg 46
James Borcomen, 19th Century French Photographs from the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 2010, fig. 14-1
Julia Van Haaften, From Talbot To Stieglitz, Thames and Hudson, 1982, pl 90

Other Collections: Metropolitan Museum of Art, GEM, MOMA, National Gallery of Canada, NYPL, Auer Photo Foundation

Notes: The Galerie Contemporaine is a high point in photographic publishing. Issued in parts from 1876 to 1884 by the firm of Goupil, the series contained 241 portraits of leading figures from the worlds of art, literature, music, science, and politics by a host of Parisian photographers. The illustrations were printed as woodburytypes–a photomechanical process that reproduced the continuous tones of photography but did so with printer's ink. The speed and economy with which woodburytypes could be printed, as well as their permanence (unlike traditional photographic processes that were subject to fading), made them a highly practical substitute for albumen silver prints in book publication or other situations where mass production was desirable.

Étienne Carjat (28 March 1828 in Fareins, Ain – 19 March 1906 in Paris), was a French journalist, caricaturist and photographer. He co-founded the magazine Le Diogène, and founded the review Le Boulevard. He is best known for his numerous portraits and caricatures of political, literary and artistic Parisian figures. His best-known work is the iconic portrait of Arthur Rimbaud which he took in October 1871. The location of much of his photography is untraceable after being sold to a Mr. Roth in 1923.

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