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Painted photography backdrops

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Newark, New Jersey, 1912

From roughly 1860 to 192012 painted photography backdrops were a standard feature of early photography studios. Generally of rustic or quasi-classical design, but sometimes presenting a bourgeoise trompe-l'œil,3 they eventually fell out of fashion with the advent of the Brownie and Kodak cameras which brought photography to the masses with concurrent changes to public sensibility. Inasmuch as they were produced for six decades by local artisans, they can provide important clues to the provenance of old family photographs for genealogical research,4567 and their staged influence lives on in "old-timey" photography sets.89 Furthermore, they are of some interest to specialized collectors of the history of photography.10

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References

  1. ^ http://www.blogcatalog.com/blog/the-painted-backdrop-tintype-art
  2. ^ http://old-time-religion.blogspot.com/2010/05/art-tintype-book-painted-backdrop-by.html
  3. ^ http://timebinder.net/home/?currentPage=3
  4. ^ http://blog.familytreemagazine.com/photodetectiveblog/2008/01/22/BackgroundsInOldPhotos.aspx
  5. ^ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~fgriffin/photos.txt
  6. ^ http://www.billblanton.com/date.htm
  7. ^ http://en.allexperts.com/q/Photography-694/2008/12/dating-old-photograph.htm
  8. ^ http://www.nostalgiasite.com/
  9. ^ http://www.retouchpro.com/forums/photo-retouching/18307-ol-time-studio-backdrops.html
  10. ^ http://www.collectorsweekly.com/articles/an-interview-with-antique-photograph-and-camera-collectors-jack-and-beverly-wilgus/

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