Title
Still LifeArtist
De Meyer, Baron Adolf (American, 1868-1946)Publication
Camera Work XXIVDate
1908Process
PhotogravureAtelier
Manhattan Photogravure Company, NYImage Size
19.2 x 15.5 cm
Writing in the January 1912 issue of Camera Work on related piece, the art critic Charles Caffin characterized the mood of this photograph: In its purity of color, the magic of its shimmering light and evanescent halftones, and the envelope of silky atmosphere which unites everything into an ensemble of impression, it is a veritable dream of loveliness. The poetry, latent in the material, hovers like fragrant breath over the whole conception.
Reproduced / Exhibited
Brandau, Robert. De Meyer. New York: Knopf, 1976 pl. 1
Witkin, , London, and Shestack. The Photograph Collector’s Guide. London: Secker & Warburg, 1979. p. 124
Ewing, William A. Flora Photographica: Masterpieces of Flower Photography from 1835 to the Present. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2002. no. 123.
Peterson, Christian A. Camera Work: Process & Image : [exhibition, Minneapolis, Minneapolis Institute of Arts, August 31-November 3, 1985,
Seattle, Seattle Art Museum, November 22, 1985-February 2, 1986]. Minneapolis: Minneapolis Institute of arts, 1985. p. 48.
Newhall, Beaumont. The History of Photography: From 1839 to the Present. , 2012. p. 163.
