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Wellington

A work made of gelatin silver print.

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  • A work made of gelatin silver print.

Date:

1908

Artist:

Photographer unknown

About this artwork

After George Eastman introduced the handheld Kodak #1 camera in 1888, amateurs made millions of snapshots depicting friends and family, travels, and festive occasions such as weddings. Even while solidifying such thoroughly conventional behaviors, amateur photography developed a new pictorial language that privileged immediacy, spontaneity, and accident. Career photographers and art historians—but also antiques vendors and flea-market shoppers—have long recognized the value of the “snapshot aesthetic.” The rise of social media and smartphones in recent years has effectively ended the era of the snapshot as both a printed photograph and an image for a private audience.

Status

Currently Off View

Department

Photography and Media

Artist

Unknown Maker

Title

Wellington

Place

Unknown Place (Object made in:)

Date  Dates are not always precisely known, but the Art Institute strives to present this information as consistently and legibly as possible. Dates may be represented as a range that spans decades, centuries, dynasties, or periods and may include qualifiers such as c. (circa) or BCE.

1908

Medium

Gelatin silver print

Dimensions

8.7 × 8.7 (image/paper); 9.9 × 12.7 cm (mount)

Credit Line

Gift of Peter J. Cohen

Reference Number

2013.158.238

Extended information about this artwork

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