Currently not on view
Bubbles,
ca. 1890
Robert S. Redfield, American, 1849–1923
x1982-427
Redfield joined the Photographic Society of Philadelphia in 1881, eventually serving as the society’s secretary, vice president, and president as well as editor of the Journal of the Photographic Society of Philadelphia. By 1891 he was considered one of the leading amateur photographers in the country and was active in bringing attention to photographic exhibitions in Philadelphia. Fellow pictorialist photographers F. Holland Day and Alfred Stieglitz recognized Redfield’s influence, exhibiting his work both in the United States and abroad and inviting him to become a founding member of the Photo-Secession, the American group that would champion photography as a fine art. Bubbles aligns itself with pictorialist photography through its labor intensive platinum printing and its romanticized scene reminiscent of genre painting.
Information
Title
Bubbles
Dates
ca. 1890
Maker
Medium
Platinum print
Dimensions
19.2 x 24.2 cm. (7 9/16 x 9 1/2 in.)
mount: 35.5 x 43.1 cm. (14 x 16 15/16 in.)
Credit Line
Gift of Donald R. Griffin
Object Number
x1982-427
Place Made
North America, United States
Culture
Materials
Techniques
- "Acquisitions of the Art Museum 1982", Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 42, no. 1 (1983): p. 50-70., p. 66
- "Other Pictorialist Collections in the Art Museum: Paul L. Anderson, John G. Bullock, William B. Dyer, Gertrude Käsebier, Robert S. Redfield," in "The Art of Pictoral Photography 1890-1925", special issue, Record of the Art Museum, Princeton University 51, no. 2 (1992): 79–99., p. 86 (illus.)
