Tuesday, October 24, 2017

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group of four in forest

In many of the old RPPC and Cabinet Cards the portrait is set within a photo mask. This is a cut out mask that is placed between the negative and the photopaper before it is exposed so that the resulting print appears to be framed inside a heart or a leaf or just a circle.

Here are a few.

New Additions

Cabinet Card woman
Cabinet Card Man

Family Group with bows
On this one the photographer moved the mask slightly during exposure in the dark room to produce the fuzzy line of the oval.

Girls and guys
Five Children


CDV portrait
Large Group

The oval, vertical or horizontal, is probably the most common photo-mask.

Three in the studio

Joe
Two children in a wagon
Tailgate Drinking Party

Six children and a dog.
Two women

Trio in cut out
20110910 couple in studio RPPC
Two girls

Man

Cabinet Card portrait of a man

Portrait

Now, the one at the left was not done the same way.

First the print paper was exposed with just a leaf pressed in the middle. Then the leaf was replaced with the portrait negative and exposed to light again. The result is a black border around the portrait.


baby in cutout
two children in cutout
child on porch
Woman,  Hat, Fan
This one was done like the "leaf" portrait just above.

Girl
Brokeback

RPPC Woman and Child
Man and pair of horses

The most popular photographs most popular, Family Group,
An album of the most requested photographs in the Lost Gallery.

Area 51 and a Half Area 51 and a Half
You are probably not authorized to see these.

Don't take my picture! Oh! You DID didn't you! completely unaware of the photographer This is a collection of photographs that disappear on the way home from the photo processing shop.


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Head and Shoulders Portraits - Page Three


The Head and Shoulder Portrait.

These are studio portraits that don't fall into the photo-booth category or the Cabinet Card and Cart de Viste category, where the photographer is identified. They have their own pages.

The Photo-booth portraits start HERE.
The Cabinet Cards start HERE.
The Cart de Viste pages start HERE.
The tintype pages start HERE

For this page then, here are the odd format portraits old and recent. Black and white or sepia or color. All of these were done in a studio setting.

Photo booth almost

What decides if a portrait is full length or head and shoulders?

If you can see the elbows, it's not a "head and shoulder" portrait.

New Additions

RPPC portrait of a woman
Before and after?
Before and after?
CDV portrait of a woman
CDV Young Man

Small mounted portrait
Portrait mounted on long card
Portrait of young man on long card, trimmed
Young Man


CDV portrait of bearded man
CDV portrait of young woman
Cabinet Card
Small mounted portrait of a woman

Card mounted portrait
Rod
Portrait with Hat
Cabinet Card

CDV woman
Good heavens ...
Oval Portrait
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CDV man
Woman
Man without hat
Man with hat

Portrait of a young girl
Woman portrait
Portrait
You better believe it.

Studio Portrait of young man
Profile
Studio Portrait of a woman
Cabinet Card man

Tintype portrait of a man
portrait young lady

This is probably a trimmed cabinet card.
Portrait of a man

Young Girl
CDV portrait
CDV portrait
Profile

Man with hat
Portrait
Photobooth Young Man
Tiny Portrait of a Girl

Portrait with hat
Portrait
Graduation Portrait

Jake and James McClelland
Jake and James McClelland
Jake and James McClelland, perhaps brothers. Here showing the original strip and an enhanced version.

Portrait
Small portrait
Woman and hat
CDV portrait

tiny portrait
Man with overalls
Man cropped
Trimmed and glued to
a black photograph album page.
Man

Portrait of a woman with round glasses
Portrait of a girl with round glasses
Portrait of a girl with round glasses.
Girl with glasses

Tiny portrait
Tiny Portrait
Small oval portrait
Small oval portrait

cdv woman studio test
cdv woman studio test
Here are original and enhanced versions.

The most popular photographs most popular, Family Group, An album of the most requested photographs in the Lost Gallery.

Area 51 and a Half Area 51 and a Half You are probably not authorized to see these.

Don't take my picture! Oh! You DID didn't you! completely unaware of the photographer This is a collection of photographs that disappear on the way home from the photo processing shop.

And don't miss
Cabinet Card Gallery
One Man's Treasure
Penny Tales
Square America
Tattered and Lost
Vernacular Photography
The best
FOUND PHOTOGRAPH
sites on the web.

And for postcards try
THE DAILY POSTCARD.
POSTCARDY

All images are the property of Lost Gallery and the author. Permission must be granted for their use. All rights reserved.

THE KIDS Lesson one. It is always a mystery how a photograph of any of these precious children could end up lost or abandoned. Here are a few. You will probably say "Ooh..." at least once.

Dee and the Business School Dee and the Business School
The beautiful Dee. A curious story; What do you see?

WHAT'S GOING ON HERE?
Neiffel and Helvetica Typehigh

"What are they doing?"

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