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Photography: Its origins, Its progress, Its transformations
Photography: Its origins, Its progress, Its transformations

Photography: Its origins, Its progress, Its transformations

Original Language TitleLa Photographie, ses origines, ses progrès, ses transformations
Artist Louis Désiré Blanquart-Evrard (French, 1802 - 1872)
Date1869
MediumBook with multiple photography processes
DimensionsBook: 12 1/2 × 10 × 3/4 inches (31.75 × 25.4 × 1.91 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2017.61.1.1-20
SignedTyped paper inserted “BLANQUART-EVARD et le CALOTYPE en FRANCE”; Title page: “LA / PHOTOGRAPHIE / SES ORIGINES / SES PROGRÉS, SES TRANSFORMATIONS / PAR / BLANQUART-EVRARD … / LILLE / IMPRIMERIE L. DANEL. / 1869.”
InscribedOn spine, in gold: “La Photographie”
Markingsnone
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DescriptionRed leather bound book with gold tooling on spine housing 20 plates in various photographic processes, which include 2 photolithographs, 4 photograveures, 1 engraving, 6 salt prints, 1 albumen print, 5 carbon prints, and 1 Woodbury print.Provenance
The Hall Family Foundation, Kansas City, MO, 2017;   
Their gift to The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Kansas City, MO, 2017.
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We've been collecting rocks since 1958. It's enjoyable to get out into the open and hunt for rocks, and it's really fun to cut open a rock and find a gem inside.
We've been collecting rocks since 1958. It's enjoyable to get out into the open and hunt for rocks, and it's really fun to cut open a rock and find a gem inside.
Bill Owens
ca. 1972; printed 1998
2007.54.85
I put my hair up once or twice a week. It's the only way I can get curls in it. When it's combed out, I'm willing to be seen in public.
I put my hair up once or twice a week. It's the only way I can get curls in it. When it's combed out, I'm willing to be seen in public.
Bill Owens
ca. 1972; printed 1998
2007.54.76
It's a great pleasure to watch yourself make love in the six dozen mirrors that line the ceilings and walls. I've spent a tremendous amount of thought and planning to get the total effect of the bedroom.
It's a great pleasure to watch yourself make love in the six dozen mirrors that line the ceilings and walls. I've spent a tremendous amount of thought and planning to get the total effect of the bedroom.
Bill Owens
ca. 1972; printed 1998
2007.54.36
We really enjoy getting together with our friends to drink and dance. It's a wild party and we're having a great time.
We really enjoy getting together with our friends to drink and dance. It's a wild party and we're having a great time.
Bill Owens
ca. 1972; printed 1998
2007.54.84
Because we live in the suburbs we don't eat too much Chinese food. It's not available in the supermarkets so on Saturday we eat hot dogs.
Because we live in the suburbs we don't eat too much Chinese food. It's not available in the supermarkets so on Saturday we eat hot dogs.
Bill Owens
ca. 1972; printed 1998
2007.54.26
I don't like the space walk. It's Saturday morning and I want to see cartoons.
I don't like the space walk. It's Saturday morning and I want to see cartoons.
Bill Owens
ca. 1972; printed 1998
2007.54.42
We feel most people have the wrong attitude towards sex, that it's nasty and to be done only in the dark. With us sex takes care of itself.
We feel most people have the wrong attitude towards sex, that it's nasty and to be done only in the dark. With us sex takes care of itself.
Bill Owens
ca. 1972; printed 1998
2007.54.37
My dad thinks it's a good idea to take all the leaves off the tree and rake up the yard. I think he's crazy.
My dad thinks it's a good idea to take all the leaves off the tree and rake up the yard. I think he's crazy.
Bill Owens
ca. 1972; printed 1998
2007.54.73
It's fun to break up the glass. We're doing our thing for ecology and the Boy Scouts will give us a badge for working here.
It's fun to break up the glass. We're doing our thing for ecology and the Boy Scouts will give us a badge for working here.
Bill Owens
ca. 1972; printed 1998
2007.54.95
E.M.G. album
E.M.G. album
E. M. G.
1870-1920
2013.17.13.1-57
Landscape after a Poem by Du Fu "The Rock Cliff Reveals, After the Clouds Passing by, its Face of Brocade and Embroidery"
Landscape after a Poem by Du Fu "The Rock Cliff Reveals, After the Clouds Passing by, its Face of Brocade and Embroidery"
Dong Qichang 董其昌
1621-1624
86-3/7
It's Always Fair Weather
It's Always Fair Weather
Gordon Hope Grant
ca. 1940
F97-2/55