1897
From the collection of Cleveland Museum of Art
Julia Hall McCune is a 1897 by Clarence H. White, a Impressionism work, held at Cleveland Museum of Art.
This photograph shows a young woman in a dark dress sitting by a window. Soft light spills over her face and hands. Her gaze is calm and quiet. Clarence White often blurred the line between photography and drawing. He used special papers that soaked up light like ink. The image seems to rise from the paper itself. Check out how he printed this photo at the Cleveland Museum of Art.
Clarence H. White experimented with an array of artistic media that blurred the lines between photography, drawing, and printmaking. Here are two examples of that experimentation: a platinum print on the left and a photogravure on the right. White was likely drawn to both processes for their broad tonal range and interaction of image and paper. To create platinum prints, a light-sensitive liquid emulsion is applied to and absorbed by the paper. The image forms within the paper’s fibers, resulting in a matte appearance. Because photogravures are printed like an etching, the image is formed…
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Clarence Hudson White was an American photographer, teacher and a founding member of the Photo-Secession movement.
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