PhotoSeed Archive

PhotoSeed is a private archive of vintage fine art photography with simple goals: beauty, truth, scholarship and enjoyment for all who visit.

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Deepfakes are everywhere. The 1890 imitative painting photo A Holbein Woman by the Allen sisters provides a case study, especially since Hans Holbein the Younger is no longer considered the 16th Century artist of record. https://t.co/y5zTSqckUO #hansholbein @mauritshuis @DeOldify

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Wishing you all the belief in faith this Christmas season. https://t.co/99STyD7YSj Photo: “The Vendors & the Faithful” by Manuel Arellano: Filipino, b. 1885.  https://t.co/99STyD7YSj #faith #love #charity #FilipinoPhotographers #philippinephotography

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American photographer Frederick Britton Hodges was a journalist, poet, and naturalist. In 1915 he wrote the month of November could be one: “in which we cast out the selfish intrusions that will creep in and occupy some of the valuable space in our minds”. https://t.co/t0Z2SHWk1T

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In 1889, the Milton Bradley company of Springfield, Massachusetts produced what is believed to be the world’s first card game on photography, one they called “The Amateur Photographer”. https://t.co/SNWQZ9mVcf #miltonbradley

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Edmund Leyland Woods 1848-1940 was a founder in 1883 of the Pacific Coast Amateur Photographers Association. With his work also held by the @GettyMuseum, Evening from Napa Soda Springs and Iffley Mill, Upper Thames (1890)are new finds. https://t.co/bbukJpRuQn @CalifNapaValley

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As a boy, Henry Ravell (1864-1930) learned photography at the side of his father in Lyons N.Y. Also embracing art, he settled in Mexico and California, becoming an expert gum printer. Rediscover this American master. https://t.co/B316bUBIQv #gumprinting #MexicanPhotography @Kodak

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Check out my post from 8 years ago on Wilhelm Röntgen's discovery: https://t.co/0OUGnfX9Kk

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The story of 15 cyanotypes found in 2019 of some of the earliest photos made by X-Rays 124 years ago by Sarah Frances Whiting and others @Wellesley can now be told. https://t.co/kbG8nnBLLr Several appeared at auction in 2016 misattributed to Elizabeth Fleischman. #cyanotype

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America’s birthday is best defined by the natural beauty of her National Parks: not as a backdrop for man's folly or empty rhetoric. https://t.co/nHYomjObGG #Yosemite #AmericatheBeautiful #ArthurCPillsbury

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World heavyweight champion Muhammad Ali 1942-2016 is a role model for racial pride and justice for this important moment. Iconic images by American photojournalist Flip Schulke from 1961: https://t.co/9VI521LsiF #blacklivesmatter #saytheirnames #MuhammadAli #GOAT #FlipSchulke

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On this 50th anniversary of Earth Day, imagine our world as really small: https://t.co/diinsoiAyH #HappyEarthDay #EarthDay2020 #EarthDay50 #EarthDay

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Six photographs of Old New York Strong for your consideration: https://t.co/9gDLLlv9V1 #NewYorkStrong #BrooklynBridge #UnionSquare #StatueofLiberty #CentralPark #GrantsTomb

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With apologies to poets everywhere, PhotoSeed presents a Haiku for our time. https://t.co/7RFnEVUMZO #digitalhaiku #ShelterInPoems #poemsinthetimeofcoronavirus

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March Madness is now just Madness, so why not enjoy a blast from the past from the dawn of women’s college basketball? Hey—isn’t that chef Julia Child’s mom holding the ball? It is! https://t.co/KyssZWHTTG #marchmadness #marchsadness @smithcollege @SC_BBall @JuliaChildJCF #bball

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A brooding N.Y. City Streetscape by the talented but completely unknown Anne Medcalf Estabrook 1893-1963 leads a few gems collected last year. Also- two each by Eugene R. Hutchinson, Carroll M. Guest & Elias Goldensky. https://t.co/dhkQCUcF6Y https://t.co/W3ApdthPQ3 #oldnewyork

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Photographs by Brooklyn Camera Club president William T. Knox 1863-1927 still in their original period frames ca. 1905-10 are the subject of a new post discussing conservation methods followed at PhotoSeed. https://t.co/73mvnjVi89 #photoconservation #frameconservation #framing

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Our post from five years ago What the Heck? now solved! Pertinent details for two other Archive works added.L: Tucker Brothers Play with Blocks: https://t.co/BjxWcRpV9e R:The Noh Dancer: https://t.co/x8xAK2ND94 B: White Mountains, N.H. from Fryeburg Maine: https://t.co/oFzhHkIfmS

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PhotoSeed wishes you and yours a Picture Perfect New Year! https://t.co/mqF5EIM7oF https://t.co/3dNzVIgMtL #happy2020

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On this Christmas day, an appropriately titled blue bromoil process work-"Lithobrome" by noted California pictorialist Sigismund Blumann: “Christmas Night from an Attic Window” for your consideration and reflection. https://t.co/NeAuW45wUl #bluechristmas #bromoil

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Explore inner demons or defer to your better angels this Halloween? https://t.co/KoyjjIkj74 #ballet @ViennaOperaVTO #Halloween #Bats @ViennaFestivalB