Museum Exhibition

Catalogue of Works

A Field Guide to Photography and Media

Art Institute of Chicago

24 documented works

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Alfred Stieglitz

The Net Mender

1894

Carbon print

Image: 41.8 × 54.3 cm (16 1/2 × 21 7/16 in.); Paper/mount: 42 × 54.5 cm (16 9/16 × 21 1/2 in.)

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Alfred Stieglitz

Georgia O'Keeffe—Hands and Thimble

1919

Palladium print

Image: 24.4 × 19.4 cm (9 5/8 × 7 11/16 in.); Paper: 25.1 × 20.3 cm (9 15/16 × 8 in.)

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Unknown

Untitled (Fern Study), c. 1850, from the Hatton Fern Album

c. 1850

Cyanotype and fern

Template paper: 37.4 × 26 cm (14 3/4 × 10 1/4 in.); Cyanotype image: 23.3 × 18 cm (9 3/16 × 7 1/8 in.); Cyanotype paper: 27.7 × 19.3 cm (10 15/16 × 7 5/8 in.)

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Benjamin Mulock

Mrs. Craik Holding Cat

c. 1858

Salted paper print

Image/paper: 11.7 × 9.6 cm (4 5/8 × 3 13/16 in.)

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Camille Silvy

The Day's Orders (L'Ordre du Jour)

May 1859

Albumen print

Image/paper: 24.9 × 18.6 cm (9 13/16 × 7 3/8 in.); Mount: 40.5 × 30.3 cm (16 × 11 15/16 in.)

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Chute and Brooks

Portrait of Sailor

1875/99

Albumen print

Image: 15 × 10.2 cm (5 15/16 × 4 1/16 in.); Card: 16.4 × 10.6 cm (6 1/2 × 4 3/16 in.)

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Désiré Charnay

Uxmal, Indian Bas Relief, Nun's Palace (Uxmal, Bas Relief de l'Indien, Palais des Nonnes), plate 44 from the album "Cités et Ruines Américaines, Gide Paris" (1863)

1860

Albumen print

40 × 27 cm (15 3/4 × 10 11/16 in.)

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Edouard Denis Baldus

Avignon (Flood of 1856) (Avignon [Inondation de 1856])

1856

Salted paper print

Image/paper: 29.3 × 44 cm (11 9/16 × 17 3/8 in.)

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Gustave Le Gray

The Great Wave, Sète

1857

Albumen print, No. 17 from the Vistas del Mar album

Image/paper: 34.1 × 41.8 cm (13 7/16 × 16 1/2 in.); Album page: 50.8 × 64.5 cm (20 × 25 7/16 in.)

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Hugh Welch Diamond

Surrey County Lunatic Asylum, The Same Patient in 4 Different States: Melancholy, Excited, Convalescent, Well Untitled, 1849–60, from the George Cowper Album, assembled 1849–60

1849-1860

Albumen prints

Upper left image/paper: 8.1 × 6.8 cm (3 1/4 × 2 11/16 in.); Upper right image: 6.9 × 5.6 cm (2 3/4 × 2 1/4 in.); Upper right paper: 8 × 6.4 cm (3 3/16 × 2 9/16 in.); Lower left image/paper: 7.3 × 6.2 cm (2 7/8 × 2 1/2 in.); Lower right image: 7 × 5.6 cm (2 13/16 × 2 1/4 in.); Lower right paper: 8 × 6.7 cm (3 3/16 × 2 11/16 in.); Album page: 28.4 × 22.8 cm (11 3/16 × 9 in.)

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John Beasley Greene

Untitled (Still life with a statuette of the Venus de Milo)

1852-53

Waxed paper negative

31.4 × 24.3 cm (12 3/8 × 9 5/8 in.); frame: 52.8 × 42.6 × 3.9 cm (20 13/16 × 16 13/16 × 1 9/16 in.)

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Léon Tissier French, 19th century

Degree of Ossification of a Five-Month-Old Fetus (Degré d'ossification d'un Foetus de cinq mois)

1898

Gelatin silver print with applied india ink or watercolor

Image/paper: 31.5 × 23.3 cm (12 7/16 × 9 3/16 in.)

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Lewis Wickes Hine

Newsies at Skeeter Branch, St. Louis, Missouri, 11:00 a.m.

May 9, 1910

Gelatin silver print

Image: 8.9 × 11.5 cm (3 9/16 × 4 9/16 in.); Paper: 12.6 × 17.8 cm (5 × 7 in.)

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Lewis Wickes Hine

Climbing up the Beams on the Empire State-100 Stories Up

1931

Gelatin silver print

Image/paper: 49.1 × 39.7 cm (19 3/8 × 15 11/16 in.)

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Breeks, James Wilkinson

Kurumba Man

1873

Albumen silver print

Image/paper: 21.8 × 18.5 cm (8 5/8 × 7 5/16 in.)

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Nadar (Gaspard Félix Tournachon)

Interior of Le Géant Inflating

1863, printed later

Gelatin silver print

Image: 11 × 8.3 cm (4 3/8 × 3 5/16 in.); Mount: 14.7 × 10.6 cm (5 13/16 × 4 3/16 in.)

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Robert H. Vance

Untitled (Portrait of Two Men)

1855

Daguerreotype

10.7 × 8.2 cm (4 1/4 × 3 1/4 in.); Open case: 11.9 × 1 cm (4 11/16 × 7/16 in.); Case: 11.8 × 9.3 × 1.6 cm (4 11/16 × 3 11/16 × 11/16 in.); Plate: 10.8 × 8.3 cm (4 1/4 × 3 1/4 in.)

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