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Glass and Shadows
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Baron Adolf de MeyerAmerican Photographer · 1868–1946
All works by this person →Baron Adolf de Meyer spent his childhood in Paris and Germany. He exhibited photographs as an amateur photographer when he was around twenty-six years old. The following year he relocated from Dresden to London, where he was admitted to the Royal Photographic Society and the Linked Ring. He maintained a professional correspondence and friendship with Alfred Stieglitz; de Meyer's photographs were p
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- negative 1908–1911; print 1912
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- Photogravure
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- American
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- Photographs
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- Getty Museum
During the first decade of the 20th century, photographers such as De Meyer and Heinrich Kühn helped advance the idea that photography should emulate other forms of art. Here De Meyer photographed several glass objects through a scrim. The thin woven fabric softens the backlit objects, replicating the subtle tonal effects prized in etchings by artists from Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn to James McNeill Whistler.
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