Inteiro Postal dos EUA emitido em 1880, com valor facial de 2 cents.
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Inteiro Postal dos EUA emitido em 1895, com valor facial de 1 cent.
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Selo emitido em 1954 – George Eastman
Selo emitido em 1978: "Equipamento Fotográfico", Câmera, Lentes, Filtros, Light Bulb, Photo Album. Scott: 1758.
Série de 4 selos emitida em 1996: "Pioneiros da Comunicação", Eadweard Muybridge, Ottmar Mergenthaler, Frederick Ives e William Dickson. Scott: 3061/3064.
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Série: "Master of American Photography"
Série com 20 selos: "As Melhores Fotografias Americanas", emitida em 13/06/2002, no Museu de Artes Fotográficas, San Diego.
Todos selos auto-adesivos, com valor facial de 37¢ cada, que mostram trabalhos de 20 fotógrafos documentando a história dos Estados Unidos.
São dramáticas fotografias, em branco e preto, tiradas pelos mais importantes fotógrafos de 20 nações. Scott: 3649.
A folhinha de 20 selos mostra fotos de retrato (portrait), documentário, lugares (landscape) e fine art photography. Muitos dos maiores temas e eventos na história dos EUA, incluindo imigração, a Grande Depressão e a Segunda Guerra Mundial.
Ordenados em ordem cronológica, os selos também oferecem um visual sampling da história e do desenvolvimento da fotografia nos Estados Unidos.
A folhinha também mostra uma foto black&white tirada em 1888 ou 1889, por William Henry Jackson ou um de seus assistentes. The photograph depicts a photographer using a mammoth-plate camera precariously balanced atop Overhanging Rock, some 3,200 feet above Yosemite Valley, na Califórnia.
With his keen appreciation for natural vistas, Jackson chose field photography as a way of life and was noted for his landscapes of the American West. This picture dramatically illustrates some of the challenges frontier photographers faced in pursuit of just the right subject and viewpoint.
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01 – Southworth e Hawes 02 – Timothy H. O'Sullivan 03 – Carleton E. Watkins 04 – Gertrude Käsebier 05 – Lewis W. Hine 06 – Alvin Langdon Coburn 07 – Edward Steichen 08 – Alfred Stieglitz 09 – Man Ray 10 – Edward Weston 11 – James VanDerZee 12 – Dorothea Lange 13 – Walker Evans 14 – W. Eugene Smith 15 – Paul Strand 16 – Ansel Adams 17 – Imogen Cunningham 18 – André Kertész 19 – Garry Winogrand 20 – Minor White |
01 – Albert Sands Southworth (1811-1894) e Josiah Johnson Hawes (1808-1901)
From the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; Boston, Mass.
Among the finest daguerreotypists of their day, Southworth and Hawes achieved
international prominence for their captivating portraits and views. Their Boston
studio's eminent clients included Senator Daniel Webster; this c. 1850 portrait
of the statesman and political orator vividly captured his indomitable character.
02 – Timothy H. O'Sullivan (1840-1882)
From the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Known for his Civil War pictures and western landscapes, O'Sullivan was a field
photographer highly regarded for his daring compositional style based on technical
proficiency and visual artistry. He made this photograph of General Ulysses
S. Grant and his officers on May 21, 1864, looking down from a window of Massaponax
Church in Virginia.
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03 – Carleton E. Watkins (1829-1916)
"Cape Horn, Columbia River" (1867), From the Oregon Historical Society,
Portland, Ore.
One of the best landscape photographers of the 19th century, Watkins used a
specially constructed mammoth-plate camera to record the scenic grandeur and
burgeoning development of the American West. "Cape Horn, Columbia River,"
1867, reveals his refined artistic vision, extraordinary eye for composition,
and flawless technique.
04 – Gertrude Käsebier (1852-1934)
"Blessed Art Thou Among Women", From the Library of Congress, Washington,
D.C.
Eminent portrait photographer Käsebier, whose best known images are those of
mothers and children, pioneered an evocative soft-focus style that established
her as a guiding force in the pictorialist movement. "Blessed Art Thou
Among Women," a sensitive and artistic portrayal of author Agnes Rand Lee
and her daughter Peggy, was made in 1899.
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05 – Lewis W. Hine (1847-1940)
"Looking for Lost Baggage, Ellis Island" (1905), From the George Eastman
House, Rochester, N.Y.
Documentary photographer Hine also achieved fame as a social reformer. Best
known for pictures of immigrants, child laborers, and industrial workers, Hine
viewed his subjects with compassion and their harsh surroundings with an unflinching
eye. "Looking for Lost Baggage, Ellis Island," 1905, captured the
uncertain hope of newly arrived immigrants.
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06 – Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882-1966)
"The Octopus" (1912), From the George Eastman House, Rochester, N.Y.
An innovative photographic artist, Coburn utilized soft-focus techniques, unusual
perspectives, and abstract compositions. "The Octopus," 1912, made
by looking down on Madison Square Park from atop a Manhattan skyscraper, is
an early example of modern photography that expresses the visual dynamic of
the new metropolis.
07 – Edward Steichen (1879-1973)
"Lotus, Mount Kisco, New York" (1915), From the George Eastman House,
Rochester, N.Y.
A remarkably versatile photographer, Edward Steichen played a pivotal role in
elevating photography to a fine art. "Lotus, Mount Kisco, New York,"
1915, reveals his mastery of the medium, as well as his belief that the forms
found in nature helped validate the turn toward abstraction in early 20th-century
art.
08 – Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946)
"Hands and Thimble" (1920), From The Art Institute of Chicago; Chicago,
Ill.
A seminal figure in American art and photography, Stieglitz championed the idea
of photography as a distinct art medium and continually challenged its technical
limits and pictorial conventions. "Hands and Thimble," is one of more
than 300 images he made over the course of 20 years that together form an extended
portrait of the painter Georgia O'Keeffe, whom he married in 1924.
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11 – James VanDerZee (1886-1983)
"My Corsage" (1931), From Donna Mussenden VanDerZee, New York, N.Y.
VanDerZee was the preeminent African-American portrait photographer in New York
City between the two World Wars. Commissioned by celebrities and ordinary people
alike, as well as by organizations, his formal portraits and group pictures
captured the vitality of the Harlem Renaissance. His distinctive pictorial style
is evident in "My Corsage," 1931.
13 – Walker Evans (1903-1975)
"Washroom and Dining Area of Floyd Burroughs' Home, Hale County, Alabama"
(1936)
From the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.
Evans found beauty in the commonplace and turned documentary photography into
an art form. Made during the summer of 1936, his now classic photographs of
three sharecroppers, their homes and their families-which were published in
the eloquent book "Let Us Now Praise Famous Men"-are emblematic of
how we have come to visualize the austerity of the Great Depression.
14 – W. Eugene Smith (1918-1978)
"Frontline Soldier with Canteen, Saipan" June (1944), From the Center
for Creative Photography, Tucson, Ariz.)
Highly respected for his brilliant and compassionate photo-essays, Smith was
one of America's most acclaimed photojournalists. During World War II, he gained
a reputation for pictures that showed both the horror of war and the heroism
of soldiers under fire, including "Frontline Soldier with Canteen, Saipan,"
June, 1944.
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15 – Paul Strand (1890-1976)
"Steeple" (1946), From the Paul Strand Archive, Millerton, N.Y.
Strand, whose cubist, nearly abstract photographs broke new ground during the
second decade of the 20th century, applied a similar geometric complexity to
the broad range of straight photography that he advocated thereafter. "Steeple,"
1946, from his book "Time in New England," is typical of Strand's
modernist compositional style, emphasizing form, light and space.
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17 – Imogen Cunningham (1883-1976)
"Age and Its Symbols" (1958), From The Imogen Cunningham Trust, Berkeley,
Calif.
A photographer of exceptional sensibility and one of the founders of modernist
photography, Cunningham is best known for her plant studies and portraits. In
a departure from her earlier romantic pictorial style, she began making sharply
focused, realistic photographs in the 1920s. "Age and Its Symbols,"
1958, a portrait of Ida C. Pabst, is compelling for its revealing personal intimacy.
19 – Garry Winogrand (1928-1984)
From the Fraenkel Gallery, San Francisco, Calif.
Fascinated with photographing people on the street, Winogrand originated an
approach to candid photography that extended the scope of the documentary tradition.
This 1965 work is typical of Winogrand's whimsical view of contemporary urban
life: the random mixing of pedestrians, their chance gestures, and the interactions
of men and women.
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20 – Minor White (1908-1976)
"Bristol, Vermont" (1971), From The Minor White Archive, Princeton,
N.J.
A major figure in the expressive movement in art photography, White was an innovative
photographer intent on conveying deep personal feelings through his work. Committed
as well to the spiritual and the sacred in art, White excelled in using symbolic
representation, as depicted in "Bristol, Vermont," 1971. The arrow
on this snowy road represents the concept of passage.
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