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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: Lady in Black https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.199.37.f
Camera Work: Lady in Black
November 28, 2025 at 6:49 PM
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Elizabeth Rigby, later Lady Eastlake (1809-1893) https://clevelandart.org/art/1987.16
Among the earliest photographers to explore both the artistic and societal possibilities of the portrait were the painter David Octavius Hill and engineer Robert Adamson, partners for just three years before Adamson’s death. Elizabeth Rigby<em>,</em>seen here at age 35, went on to marry Sir Charles Eastlake and, in 1857, to write one of the first histories of photography as a fine art. James Nasmyth, an engineer who developed the steam hammer, holds a compass. Hill and Adamson often shot outdoors because bright sunlight allowed shorter exposure times. They subordinated the background in shadow and bathed the important details of the face and finery in areas of light.
November 28, 2025 at 5:02 PM
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Bridge of Shops, Srinagar, Kashmir https://clevelandart.org/art/1994.185
Taking up photography in his teens, Samuel Bourne soon achieved recognition for both his superb technical skills and keen aesthetic talents. When he sailed to India in late 1862, he left a banking career to pursue his passion for photography . He hoped to use his camera throughout the country and to write about his experiences for the British Journal of Photography. This charming photograph of a bridge filled with small huts demonstrates his creative ability to organize the random environment. His lively use of light and shade clearly defines the elements of architecture and landscape. The photographer allowed a favorite, early interest in water to dominate this picturesque image of Jaipur, which was founded in 1727 by Maharajah Jai Singh II. By the beginning of the 21st century, this small town had developed into a commercial city with a population of well over two million.
November 28, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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Camera Work: The Asphalt Paver; New York https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.199.41.h
Camera Work: The Asphalt Paver; New York
November 28, 2025 at 9:46 AM
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Camera Work: Height and Light in Bourges Cathedral https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.199.4.c
Camera Work: Height and Light in Bourges Cathedral
November 27, 2025 at 7:23 PM
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Fountain of the L'École Polytechnique https://clevelandart.org/art/1985.116
Fountain of the L'École Polytechnique
November 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
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Deir el-Medineh, Sacred Barge https://clevelandart.org/art/1993.93
Deir el-Medineh, Sacred Barge
November 27, 2025 at 1:39 PM
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Colossol Monolith of Amenhotep III, Gournah https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.235
Colossol Monolith of Amenhotep III, Gournah
November 27, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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Hôtel Cheruseau, Rue Louis en L'Ile https://clevelandart.org/art/1993.88
Hôtel Cheruseau, Rue Louis en L'Ile
November 27, 2025 at 10:09 AM
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Camera Work: Janet Burnet https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.199.19.d
Camera Work: Janet Burnet
November 26, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Camera Work: Principal Haldane https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.199.37.a
Camera Work: Principal Haldane
November 26, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Dendera, Interior of the Temple, Hathor Capitals https://clevelandart.org/art/1993.98
Dendera, Interior of the Temple, Hathor Capitals
November 26, 2025 at 1:49 PM
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Mrs. John R. Johnston https://clevelandart.org/art/2002.38
Active in the worlds of theather and music, Johnson was also a distinguished portrait painter, a remarkable photographer, and one of the supreme colorists of photographs. By the mid 1850s, he resided in Baltimore where he associated with Jesse H. Whitefurst, how was better known than Matthew Brady and one of the most important studio operators at that time. This portrait is a tour-de-force of personal expression, both on the part of the sitter and artist. In the angled three-quarter-length pose, Mrs. Johnson, with head tilted, gazes directly toward the camera's lens. For the period, this portrait was extraordinarily spontaneous and informal, personal and sensual. Adding to the photograph's distinction, Johnson printed his wet collodion negative on salted paper, a rarity in early American photography.
November 26, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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Winter Landscape https://clevelandart.org/art/1980.141
Winter Landscape
November 26, 2025 at 8:49 AM
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St. Peter's https://clevelandart.org/art/1986.196
St. Peter's
November 25, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Western Portico of the Parthenon https://clevelandart.org/art/1993.34
Western Portico of the Parthenon
November 25, 2025 at 5:17 PM
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Rowing Home the Schoof-Stuff (from Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads, 1886, plate XXI) https://clevelandart.org/art/1983.206
Reacting against the theatrical, sentimental photogaphs made by his contemporaries, Peter Henry Emerson pursued a direct and more naturalistic form of photography. He discovered his subjects in familiar scenes from everyday life and captured them on film. This image was included among the 40 prints illustrating <em>Life and Landscape on the Norfolk Broads</em>, one of many books Emerson published on the marsh dwellers of East Anglia. In this photograph the word "schoof" refers to the sheaf of marsh plants that have been harvested to be dried and stored at home.
November 25, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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Edwin Booth's Boat House, Near Newport, August 6, 1884 https://clevelandart.org/art/1994.280
Woodbridge, a Philadelphia socialite, was a gifted amateur photographer active from 1884 through 1915. This stark seascape is an excellent early example of her photographs that stress light and atmospheric effects. The boathouse provides a sense of scale in this grand, sweeping scene dominated by a rocky beach and cloud-filled sky. Her photographs are distinguished by a successful union of factual detail and broad tonal effects.
November 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
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Untitled https://clevelandart.org/art/2015.34
Untitled
November 25, 2025 at 9:08 AM
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At the Window https://clevelandart.org/art/1980.129
At the Window
November 24, 2025 at 7:35 PM
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At the Grindstone--A Suffolk Farmyard https://clevelandart.org/art/1992.313
At the Grindstone--A Suffolk Farmyard
November 24, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Camera Work: A Blind Musician - Granada https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.199.45.a
Camera Work: A Blind Musician - Granada
November 24, 2025 at 1:48 PM
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Tintern Abbey https://clevelandart.org/art/1984.164
Tintern Abbey
November 24, 2025 at 11:14 AM
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Arch in Farmyard, Swansea https://clevelandart.org/art/1991.40
Educated as a mathematician, musician, and clergyman, Jones was an accomplished daguerreotypist before he was introduced to the calotype by William Henry Fox Talbot in 1845. Jones's pictures were taken primarily in Wales, England, Ireland, and the Mediterranean and often depicted complex compositions of ruins, landscape, and rustic architecture. To provide a sense of scale and human presence, he almost always included figures in his architectural views (here a lone individual leans against the archway). In this photograph Jones also alluded to the inevitable passage of time by contrasting the monumental arch in the foreground with the ruined arch in the distance.
November 24, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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What Shall I Say? https://clevelandart.org/art/1980.130
What Shall I Say?
November 23, 2025 at 6:48 PM