Portraits & Dreamscapes
Images from the earliest days of photography transformed with digital processing and layers of metal leaf and resin to animate the past with an eerie new life
Original Photos: Tintypes, Cartes de Visite, and Cabinet Photos from the artist’s personal collection and public domain sources, dating from the 1860s through the 1900s.
Original Photos: Tintypes, Cartes de Visite, and Cabinet Photos from the artist’s personal collection, dating from the 1860s through the 1890s.
Mixed media on wooden panel, 16″ x 16″ ~ 2020 ~ $400
Unframed Print, 17″ x 22″ ~ 2020 ~ $110
Original Photos: Cartes de Visite, book prints, and Cabinet Photos from the artist’s personal collection plus public domain sources, dating from the 1860s through the 1910s.
Original Photos: 1) Tintype (man in tophat), c. 1875. Photographer and subject unknown. 2) Tintype (little girl), c. 1880. Photographer and subject unknown. 3) Photo (nude woman), c. 1910. Photographer and subject unknown. Battle not with monsters lest ye become a monster and if you gaze into the abyss the abyss gazes into you. ~Friedrich Nietzsche
Original Photos: 1) Cabinet Card, 1902. Photographer: Sarony Studios, subject: Evelyn Nesbit. 2) Cabinet Card, 1902. Photographer: Aimé Dupont, subject: David Bispham as Alberich. Photos courtesy Harvard Theatre Library.
Original Photos: 1) Tintype, c. 1865. Photographer and subject unknown. 2) Stereoview, c. 1917, Realistic Travels Publishers. Subject: Delville Wood.
Original Photos: 1) Cabinet Card, 1889. Photographer: C. Nante, Ghent, Belgium. Subjects unknown. 2) Cabinet Card, c. 1890. Photographer: Otto Sarony. Subject: Walter Bentley (actor). Courtesy Harvard Theater Library. 3) Digital image, 2004. Hubble Telescope, Triffid Nebula. Courtesy NASA.
Original Photo: Ambrotype, c. 1855. Photographer and subject unknown.
Original Photo: Tintype, c.1870, photographer and subjects unknown.
Original Photo: Real Photo Postcard, c. 1910. Photographer and subject unknown.
Original Photo: Real Photo Postcard, c. 1910. Photographer and subject unknown.
Original Photo: Tintype, c. 1870. Photographer and subjects unknown.
The Second Coming Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? ~William Butler Yeats
Original Photos: 1) Twin girls: Tintype, c. 1870. Photographer and subjects unknown. 2) Twin babies: Tintype, c. 1870. Photographer and subjects unknown. 3) Women from behind: Tintype, c. 1880. Photographer and subjects unknown.
Original Photo: “Pomona”, Albumen print, 1872. Photographer: Julia Margaret Cameron, subject: Alice Liddell.
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Original Photos: Glass negative, c. 1860. Photographer: Matthew Brady. Subject: John T. Hoffman. Courtesy Library of Congress.
Original Photos: Glass negative, c. 1860. Photographer: Matthew Brady. Subject: John T. Hoffman. Courtesy Library of Congress.
Original photo: Tintype, c.1885, unknown photographer and subjects.
Original Photo: Ambrotype, c. 1865. Unknown photographer and subject.
SOLD / Artist's Collection
Original Photo: “Pomona”, Albumen print, 1872. Photographer: Julia Margaret Cameron, subject: Alice Liddell. 
Original Photos: Various Victorian subjects, most photographed from behind, c1870-1890, cartes de visite, cabinet photos, and tintypes. Awards: Marin County Fair Art Show (San Rafael, CA) July 2019 – Photography, Best Creative or Alternative Print 
Original Photos: 1) Albumen Photograph (background), 1867. Photographer: Pierre Petit, subject: Exposition Universelle, Paris (Courtesy Rijksmuseum, Amsterdam); 2) Tintype (boy), c. 1860, photographer and subject unknown; 3) Tintype (girl), c. 1880, photographer and subject unknown; 4) Tintype (man), c. 1890, photographer and subject unknown; 5) Tintype (Confirmation girl), c. 1870, photographer and subject unknown; 6) Albumen Photographs (gaping man), 1862. Photographer: Guillaume Benjamin Amand Duchenne. Subject: Unknown.
Original Photos: 1) Cabinet Card, 1868, photographer unknown, subject: Dederick’s Steam Man (Courtesy New York Public Library); 2) Cabinet card, c. 1880, photographer: Ford C. Bryant, subject unknown; 3) Carte de Visite, 1882, photographer: Window & Grove, subject: Ellen Terry.
Original Photo: “Pomona”, Albumen print, 1872. Photographer: Julia Margaret Cameron, subject: Alice Liddell.
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Original Photo: Carte de Visite, c. 1863. Unknown subject. Photographer: Edward Schnadhorst & William Heilbronn, London.
The Second Coming Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer; Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold; Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world, The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere The ceremony of innocence is drowned; The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity. Surely some revelation is at hand; Surely the Second Coming is at hand. The Second Coming! Hardly are those words out When a vast image out of Spiritus Mundi Troubles my sight: somewhere in sands of the desert A shape with lion body and the head of a man, A gaze blank and pitiless as the sun, Is moving its slow thighs, while all about it Reel shadows of the indignant desert birds. The darkness drops again; but now I know That twenty centuries of stony sleep Were vexed to nightmare by a rocking cradle, And what rough beast, its hour come round at last, Slouches towards Bethlehem to be born? ~William Butler Yeats
Cards are from the Ultimate Deck from Stranger & Stranger.
Original Photos: 1) Cabinet Card, 1882. Unknown photographer. Subjects: Abbie, Hattie and Ella Rix. 2) Original photo, c. 1910. Unknown photographer and subject.