291

HISTORY'S TIDBIT - 291 was shorthand for #291 FIFTH AVENUE, NEW YORK. This was the address of the Little Galleries of the Photo Secession, created and managed by photographer Alfred Steiglitz, and which opened its doors in 1905. Originally envisioned as a photo gallery, 291, as it became known, evolved into an American showcase for European art. A dozen years later, following the U.S. entry into World War One, the gallery closed its doors. LARRY ELKINS - ELKINSPHOTOS FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY

CHARIS WILSON

HISTORY'S TIDBIT - Charis Wilson was the wife and model of famed photographer Edward Weston. LARRY ELKINS ELKINSPHOTOS FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY

(ROLLEI) FLEX YOUR MUSCLES

HISTORY'S TIDBIT - 1928 - ROLLEI INTRODUCES THE ROLLEIFLEX, A HIGH END TWIN LENS REFLEX CAMERA. LARRY ELKINS ELKINSPHOTOS FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY

HAPPY 40TH ANNUAL EARTH DAY

HAPPY 40TH ANNUAL EARTH DAY - MAKE EVERY DAY EARTH DAY. THIS IS THE ONLY EARTH WE'VE GOT.

IT IS APRIL FOOLS DAY, ISN'T IT?

HISTORY'S TIDBIT - Question #1; Who founded the Eastman Kodak Company? Question #2: What was the name of Brett Weston's father? Question #3: Who wears a red & white suit and lives at the North Pole? Answers: On April1st. LARRY ELKINS ELKINSPHOTOS FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY

BUTCH AND SUNDANCE SHARED A MISTRESS

LITTLE DETAIL IS ACTUALLY KNOWN OF THE LIFE OF ETTA PLACE WHO WAS THE MISTRESS OF BOTH BUTCH CASSIDY AND THE SUNDANCE KID. The only known photograph of Etta Place is a formal portrait taken with Sundance in New York City prior to Butch, Sundance and Etta booking passage on the S.S. Herminious bound for South America. It is believed that Butch and Sundance perished in South America at the hands of Pinkerton Agents though there are rumors they survived. Etta's fate is also unknown. One theory is that all three survived and later resided together on a ranch in Mexico. LARRY ELKINS Elkinsphotos Fine Art Photography

A QUESTION OF CLASS - PHOTOS THAT IS

REMEMBER WHAT IT WAS LIKE GETTING YOUR CLASS PHOTO TAKEN BACK IN THE - OH - SAY THE MID SIXTIES? On the big day, you'd wear a white dress shirt and a spiffy tie and Mom would make sure your hair was combed (and spray a goodly amount of sticky hairspray on the do just to make sure it didn't - get mussed up that is). And a few weeks later, the photo package would arrive. The wallet sized snaps would be handed out to Grandpa and Grandma, Auntie Mildred and little Suzy Mae next door. The larger photos would be framed with one kept by Mom and Dad and the rest would wind up as Christmas presents. But all that is prehistory. Nowadays, Senior pictures as they're now known, comprise a specialty that rivals wedding photography both in technical sophistication and cost. In my opinion, it's a shame, but there's no going back. So, Mom and Dad, just grit your teeth and ante up. LARRY ELKINS ELKINSPHOTOS

COMING SOON - THE SCENE OF THE CRIME

COMING SOON - A HISTORY OF CRIME SCENE PHOTOGRAPHY - LARRY ELKINS ELKINSPHOTOS

ONE EGG OVER EASY-THE ALBUMEN PROCESS

HISTORY'S TIDBIT - In the mid 1880's, the albumen process became popular. This coating for photographic print paper consisted of a mixture of egg white and salt. LARRY ELKINS ELKINSPHOTOS.COM

EIGHT HOUR EXPOSURE

HISTORY'S TIDBIT - The exposure time for the Nicephore Niepce photograph, believed to have been the world's first permanent photographic image, was a whopping eight hours. LARRY ELKINS ELKINSPHOTOS FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY

OOH LA LA - THE FRENCH POSTCARD

HISTORY'S TIDBIT - The Victorians are renowned for their uptight attitudes. Piano legs were covered with stockings so that the bare (wooden) legs would not be exposed and the term white meat came into vogue to avoid using the word breast. And yet Victorian men went ga-ga over risque French postcards that depicted buxom young ladies in various states of undress. These photographic representations of nude and semi-nude ladies enjoyed a huge popularity among Victorian gentlemen. Hypocrisy, thy name is Victorian. LARRY ELKINS ELKINSPHOTOS FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY

ELKINSPHOTOS-MORE THAN A HISTORY BLOG

BE SURE TO VISIT OUR OTHER PHOTO BLOG http://elkinsphotos-bisbee.blogspot.com and my web photo gallery http://www.elkinsphotos.com. LARRY ELKINS ELKINSPHOTOS FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY

BISBEE MINING AND HISTORICAL MUSEUM

HISTORY'S TIDBIT - The Bisbee Mining & Historical Museum houses an impressive archive of historical photographic materials relating to early day Bisbee Arizona. ELKINSPHOTOS FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY

ANNA ATKINS

HISTORY'S TIDBIT - Anna Atkins was a Nineteenth Century nature photographer and botanist. Atkins's photographs of plant specimens were printed using the Cyanotype process. In 1843, Atkins published a book of her photographs entitled BRITISH ALGAE: CYANOTYPE IMPRESSIONS. LARRY ELKINS ELKINSPHOTOS FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY

I SAY LENS-YOU SAY PINHOLE,

LONG BEFORE THE INVENTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY, THE CAMERA OBSCURA AFFORDED THE VIEWER A TWO DIMENSIONAL REPRESENTATION OF THE THREE DIMENSIONAL WORLD. This primitive device, was simply a darkened room or tent with a tiny pinhole in one wall that projected an upside down image of a scene onto the opposite wall, A huge leap forward in technology was made in the year 1558 when, in his treatise entitled NATURAL LIGHT, Giovanni Battista della Porta described the process by which an optical lens could be used in place of the pinhole to create a far superior image. It would, however, take four more centuries before true photography would take its place on the world stage. LARRY ELKINS ELKINSPHOTOS FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY

LIGHTNING PHOTOGRAPHED

HISTORY'S TIDBIT - The first known photograph of lightning was made by daguerreotypist Thomas Easterly in the mid 1800's. LARRY ELKINS ELKINSPHOTOS FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY

THE DEATH OF PAINTING

HISTORY'S TIDBIT - WITH THE ADVENT OF PHOTOGRAPHY, MANY FINE ART PAINTERS PREDICTED THAT THE INVENTION OF PHOTOGRAPHY WOULD BE THE DEATH KNELL OF THEIR MEDIUM. Happily, the rumors of the death of painting proved to be wildly overblown. LARRY ELKINS ELKINSPHOTOS

MOON TO EARTH: SAY CHEESE

HISTORY'S TIDBIT - The first photo of the earth taken from the vicinity of the moon on 8/23/1966 from a lunar orbiter. As space images go, it wasn't pretty. that hardly mattered though. IT WAS THE FIRST PHOTOGRAPH OF THE EARTH TAKEN FROM THE MOON. LARRY ELKINS ELKINSPHOTOS FINE ART PHOTOGRAPHY