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HIPPOLYTE BAYARD (PHOTOGRAPHE). [Windmills, Montmartre]
![HIPPOLYTE BAYARD (PHOTOGRAPHE). [Windmills, Montmartre]. Artist: Hippolyte Bayard (French, 1801-1887). Dimensions: Image: 9.3 × 10.6 cm (3 11/16 × 4 3/16 in.), irregularly trimmed. Date: 1839.
Even before the detailed processes of Talbot and Daguerre were revealed, a third inventor had successfully obtained photographic images using a process of his own creation. Hippolyte Bayard, experimenting in the hours left free from his civil service job, had brought his process from conception to fruition in the short space of a few months early in 1839. Like Daguerre's technique, Bayard's was a direct-positive process; like Talbot's, it produced photographs on paper. Each picture required some thirty minutes of exposure.This photograph, inscribed on the verso "Essai de 1839 Avril Mai," is one of Bayard's earliest surviving prints and among the rarest of photographic incunabula. Its chemical stains and slight discoloration only heighten the modern viewer's sense of bearing witness to the magic that first enabled sensitized paper to retain an image thrown by the lens of a camera obscura.The picturesque windmills of Montmartre, the outlying suburb that was becoming the bohemian quarter of Paris, were a frequent subject of Bayard's earliest photographs, and likely figured in some of the thirty pictures shown by the artist in the first public exhibition of photographs, held in Paris in July 1839. Remembering that occasion a dozen years later, the critic Francis Wey wrote of the exhibited works, "They resembled nothing I had ever seen. ... One contemplates these direct positives as if through a fine curtain of mist. Very finished and accomplished, they unite the impression of reality with the fantasy of dreams: light grazes and shadow caresses them.".](/photos/prev/NmI1Mzk2MA/album_alb3599587.webp)
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Titre:
[Windmills, Montmartre]
Légende:
Traduction automatique: [Moulins à vent, Montmartre]. Artiste : Hippolyte Bayard (Français, 1801-1887). Dimensions : Image : 9,3 × 10,6 cm (3 11/16 x 4 3/16 in.), taillés de manière irrégulière. Date : 1839. Avant même que les processus détaillés de Talbot et Daguerre aient été révélés, un troisième inventeur avait obtenu avec succès des images photographiques à l'aide d'un processus de sa propre création. Hippolyte Bayard, expérimentant dans les heures laissées libres de son emploi dans la fonction publique, avait mené son processus de la conception à la réalisation en l'espace de quelques mois au début de 1839. Comme la technique de Daguerre, celle de Bayard était un processus positif direct ; comme celle de Talbot, elle produisait des photographies sur papier. Chaque image a nécessité une trentaine de minutes d'exposition. Cette photographie, inscrite au verso "Essai de 1839 Avril Mai", est l'un des premiers tirages de Bayard et l'un des plus rares des incunables photographiques. Ses taches chimiques et sa légère décoloration ne font qu'accentuer le sentiment du spectateur moderne de témoigner de la magie qui a d'abord permis au papier sensibilisé de retenir une image projetée par l'objectif d'une camera obscura. Les pittoresques moulins à vent de Montmartre, la banlieue périphérique qui devenait la bohème quartier de Paris, étaient un sujet fréquent des premières photographies de Bayard et figuraient probablement dans certaines des trente images présentées par l'artiste lors de la première exposition publique de photographies, tenue à Paris en juillet 1839. Se souvenant de cette occasion une douzaine d'années plus tard, le le critique Francis Wey a écrit à propos des ?uvres exposées : « Elles ne ressemblaient à rien de ce que j'avais jamais vu. ... On contemple ces positifs directs comme à travers un fin rideau de brume. Très finis et aboutis, ils unissent l'impression de réalité au fantasme de rêves : la lumière les effleure et l'ombre les caresse.".
[Windmills, Montmartre]. Artist: Hippolyte Bayard (French, 1801-1887). Dimensions: Image: 9.3 × 10.6 cm (3 11/16 × 4 3/16 in.), irregularly trimmed. Date: 1839.
Even before the detailed processes of Talbot and Daguerre were revealed, a third inventor had successfully obtained photographic images using a process of his own creation. Hippolyte Bayard, experimenting in the hours left free from his civil service job, had brought his process from conception to fruition in the short space of a few months early in 1839. Like Daguerre's technique, Bayard's was a direct-positive process; like Talbot's, it produced photographs on paper. Each picture required some thirty minutes of exposure.This photograph, inscribed on the verso "Essai de 1839 Avril Mai," is one of Bayard's earliest surviving prints and among the rarest of photographic incunabula. Its chemical stains and slight discoloration only heighten the modern viewer's sense of bearing witness to the magic that first enabled sensitized paper to retain an image thrown by the lens of a camera obscura.The picturesque windmills of Montmartre, the outlying suburb that was becoming the bohemian quarter of Paris, were a frequent subject of Bayard's earliest photographs, and likely figured in some of the thirty pictures shown by the artist in the first public exhibition of photographs, held in Paris in July 1839. Remembering that occasion a dozen years later, the critic Francis Wey wrote of the exhibited works, "They resembled nothing I had ever seen. ... One contemplates these direct positives as if through a fine curtain of mist. Very finished and accomplished, they unite the impression of reality with the fantasy of dreams: light grazes and shadow caresses them.".
Technique/matériel:
Salted paper print
Musée:
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, USA
Crédit:
Album / Metropolitan Museum of Art, NY
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Taille de l'image:
3608 x 3270 px | 33.8 MB
Taille d'impression:
30.5 x 27.7 cm | 12.0 x 10.9 in (300 dpi)
