Giorgio Sommer - Laatste keer: Giorgio Sommer - originele ca. 135 jaar oude albumen foto

Originele ca. 135 jaar oude foto van Giorgio Sommer. Deze albumen print was qua techniek de eerste commercieel exploiteerbare methode om foto's te drukken van een negatief. Bij de druk werden albumen uit eiwitten gebruikt voor de chemische hechtiging op het papier.

 

 

Kunstenaar:  Giorgio Sommer (Duitsland, 1834-1914)

Titel:  Firenze - Cattedrale Metropolitana di Santa Maria del Fiore

Jaartal:  ca. 1880

Afmetingen:  24,5 cm x 19 cm

Techniek:  originele albumen print (fotodruk)

Conditie:  gezien de leeftijd in goede staat, met lichte ouderdomssporen

 

 

Artist
Giorgio Sommer (1834-1914) was born in Frankfurt am Main and became one of Europes most important and prolific photographers of the 19th century. Active from 1857 to 1888, he produced numerous images of archeological ruins, landscapes, art objects and portraits. After studying business in Frankfurt, Sommer opened his first photography studio in Switzerland, where he made relief images of mountains for the Swiss government. In 1856 he moved his business to Naples and later (1866) formed a partnership with fellow German photographer Edmund Behles who owned a studio in Rome. Operating from their respective Naples and Rome studios, Sommer and Behles became one of the largest and most prolific photography concerns in Italy.
Sommers catalog included images from the Vatican Museum, the National Archeological Museum at Naples, the Roman ruins at Pompeii, as well as street and architectural scenes of Naples, Florence, Rome, Capri and Sicily. In April 1872, he documented a very large eruption of Mount Vesuvius in a series of stunning photographs.
Sommer and Behles exhibited extensively and earned numerous honors and prizes for their work (London 1862, Paris 1867, Vienna 1873, Nuremberg 1885). At one time, Sommer was appointed official photographer to King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy. Sommer was involved in every aspect of the photography business. He published his own images that he sold in his studios and to customers across Europe. In later years, he photographed custom images for book illustrations, as well as printing his own albums and postcards. Sommer worked in all the popular formats of his day: carte de visite, stereoview, and large albumen prints (approximately 8x10) which were sold individually and in bound albums.