Contemporary Silver Gelatin Prints (1800 to 2000 England)

Print and Glass

See: Finch & Co catalogue no. 1, for a silver gelatin print and photographic glass slide depicting a quagga

The photographer Edward Weston spoke of the camera’s capacity for ‘looking deeply into the nature of things’ and the photographer Siegfried Kracauer declared that the ‘power of the medium’ lay in its ability ‘to open up new, hitherto unsuspected dimensions of reality’. Thus ‘photographs do not just copy nature but metamorphose it...’ The photograph can therefore be the very opposite of a literal record, a catalogue of the world, with only a capacity for reflecting the superficial aspect of things. A language of depth can replace that of surface and the photographer like the poet or painter can ‘see into the life of things’.

A Contemporary Silver Gelatin Print of Sharks
Taken from a circa 1870 photographic positive glass slide produced for the British Museum of Natural History. The print and glass slide sold together

Size: 27cm high, 44cm wide – 10½ ins high, 17¼ ins wide
57cm high, 67cm wide – 22½ ins high, 26½ ins wide (framed)

SHARK PRINT NOW SOLD

3 OTHER PRINTS AVAILABLE AS FOLLOWS :

Exoskeleton of Armadillo
Skull of Porcupine, half front view
Jaws of Dolphin