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CMA: Photography
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Sharing public domain works from the Photography department of the Cleveland Museum of Art.
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Camera Work: The Etching Printer - William Strang, Esq., A.R.A. https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.199.19.b
Camera Work: The Etching Printer - William Strang, Esq., A.R.A.
November 14, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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Amiens https://clevelandart.org/art/1986.15
This rare, majestic, and sweeping view of the cathedral of Amiens, France, is an outstanding example of Baldus’s genius for photographing architecture. Placing his large view camera at an elevated vantage point, he recorded the dominating and central position of the church, which was undergoing restoration, as it towered above the surrounding village; open landscape is captured in the distance. In this ambitious composition, he carefully rendered the scene’s textural detail, spatial complexity, and subtlety of light. Compare this distant view with the close-up detail of a stone sculpture in LeSecq’s photograph of the same building (CMA 1996.253).
November 14, 2025 at 3:35 PM
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Scolopendrium Vulgare https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.26
In 1843, Anna Atkins produced the first book illustrated with photographs. The book was the earliest use of photography in a scientific publication. An amateur botanist, Atkins overcame the difficulties of making accurate drawings by placing plants directly on light-sensitive paper and exposing them to light. With these cameraless photographs, later called photograms, she was able to carefully record the basic elements of a plant's line, shape, and texture. This example illustrates a specimen of Scolopendrium Vulgare, also known as Hart's-Tongue fern.
November 14, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Street in the Arab Quarter, Jerusalem https://clevelandart.org/art/1990.120
Street in the Arab Quarter, Jerusalem
November 14, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Footbridge Near Chingford, from The Compleat Angler https://clevelandart.org/art/1974.49
Footbridge Near Chingford, from The Compleat Angler
November 14, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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South Side Beverley Minster https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.291
South Side Beverley Minster
November 13, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Camera Work: The Onion Field - 1890 https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.199.18.a
Camera Work: The Onion Field - 1890
November 13, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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Camera Work: The White House https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.199.32.e
Camera Work: The White House
November 13, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Scotch Firs, Hawkhurst https://clevelandart.org/art/1988.239
Despite the Industrial Revolution, Benjamin Brecknell Turner portrayed the English countryside as stable, harmonious, and unchanging—a place where nature and humanity coexist in complete harmony. Here the artist captured a pastoral scene in Surrey, combining towering trees, houses, and farm buildings to create a skillful blend of rustic domesticity and charming landscape. Preferring to photograph at an angle, Turner's composition is enlivened by the strong diagonals found in the receding lines of trees, fence, and pathway, which lead the viewer in an orderly progression from foreground to background. According to family tradition, <em>Scotch Firs, Hawkhurst</em> was so admired by Queen Victoria's husband Prince Albert that Turner presented him with a print of the photograph in 1853.
November 13, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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Camera Work: Mrs. Anna Brownell Jameson https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.199.37.e
Camera Work: Mrs. Anna Brownell Jameson
November 13, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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Durham Cathedral https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.241
Durham Cathedral
November 12, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Servants at Rhagatt, Corwen, North Wales https://clevelandart.org/art/1987.22
Servants at Rhagatt, Corwen, North Wales
November 12, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Bridal Veil, Yosemite https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.12
In the 1850s, Carleton Watkins took up landscape as a field photographer, providing clients with views they could use to settle property disputes. He made his first trip to Yosemite in 1861 and returned many times, frequently as a member of geological surveys. This image is a remarkable example of Watkin's mammoth plate work (roughly 18 x 21 inches) in Yosemite and is among the greatest achievements in American photography. His landmark Yosemite photographs were distinguished by their early manifestation of a deliberately artistic point of view and for their systematic emphasis on the landscape as a pristine wilderness, untouched by civilization. The large glass negative and albumen printing process not only allowed Watkins to depict spectacular views with clarity and fidelity, but also enabled him to convey effects of light and atmosphere.
November 12, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Camera Work: Prof. John Young, of Glascow University https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.199.8.d
Camera Work: Prof. John Young, of Glascow University
November 12, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Camera Work: The Dark Mountains https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.199.8.f
Camera Work: The Dark Mountains
November 12, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Road in the Forest https://clevelandart.org/art/1989.29
Eugène Cuvelier was a landscape painter as well as a photographer. During the 1850s and 1860s, he photographed in an number of forests near Paris. He was also associated with the Barbizon painters, a group working in the village of Barbizon that advocated the direct study of nature. This exquisite snow scene exemplifies Cuvelier's distinguished and influential landscape work. The artist took advantage of the inherent softness of his photographic process to create an atmospheric rendering of a winter scene with a curving pathway that draws the viewer into the dense, barely defined background of foliage. Many of the trees Cuvelier recorded disappeared soon after the photographs were taken.
November 11, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Rue du Regard https://clevelandart.org/art/1980.35
Rue du Regard
November 11, 2025 at 5:23 PM
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Woodcote https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.290
Woodcote
November 11, 2025 at 1:28 PM
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Great Pagoda, Great Bull, Front View, Tanjore, India (Rajarajesvara Temple) https://clevelandart.org/art/1987.218
Active in Burma and India during the late 1850s, Linneaus Tripe was a professional soldier and official photographer for the Madras Presidency in India from 1856 to 1860. More than 100 of his photographs of India were published in a series of six volumes classified according to the seven urban areas of the presidency. In this dramatic photograph of the sacred Great Bull, Tripe also documented the surrounding landscape and temple which, when built, was one of the largest buildings in South Asia. Created with the paper negative process, Tripe's image demonstrates his skillful use of the medium to record a dynamic perspective and a rich variety of shape, texture, and light.
November 11, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Along the Old Canal https://clevelandart.org/art/1980.128
Along the Old Canal
November 11, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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A Path Through a Wood https://clevelandart.org/art/1987.28
A Path Through a Wood
November 10, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Roman Aqueduct, Beaunant, France https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.233
Roman Aqueduct, Beaunant, France
November 10, 2025 at 4:16 PM
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View of a Village https://clevelandart.org/art/2000.86
View of a Village
November 10, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Fountain of Notre-Dame at Saint-Brieuc, Brittany https://clevelandart.org/art/1984.17
In the early 1850s, Robert made a series of photographs that would be copied in lithography by Emile van Marcke, an accomplished artist who worked at the Sèvres factory with Robert at this time. Robert’s photographic journey captured seven sites—all featuring medieval architecture—in a small section along the northern coast of Brittany. For this picturesque view, he included the entire building, a small 15th-century Gothic pavilion erected over the fountain of Notre-Dame of Saint-Brieuc and whose square façade was positioned on a slight diagonal. Robert provided a sense of place by including a portion of the 19th-century chapel behind it, as well as flanking trees and a path leading out of the composition. For this reason, he may have also added a seated woman, dressed in traditional Breton costume, under the frontal arch. Due to the required length of exposure, the movement of the trees was recorded which, along with broad areas of bright light and dark shadows, provides a strong sense of atmosphere.
November 10, 2025 at 11:54 AM
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Camera Work: Newhaven Fisheries https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.199.28.f
Camera Work: Newhaven Fisheries
November 10, 2025 at 8:13 AM