Re: Pond-moonrise (was: Re: Steichen image in April's 'Vanity Fair'

[Joseph Smigiel <jsmigiel@net-link.net>]

Anyone know which version was in "On The Art Of Fixing A Shadow"  
exhibition?  I saw it in Chicago and was absolutely enthralled by it.

Joe


On Mar 17, 2009, at 10:34 PM, Judy Seigel wrote:

> On Tue, 17 Mar 2009, Katharine Thayer wrote:
>
> > ... But the bottom one, the cyanotype over platinum, it seems  
> > pretty certain to me that the cyan is printed with a reversed  
> > negative.  I don't know if MOMA has analyzed this print the way  
> > the Met has analyzed theirs, but since I don't know otherwise, I'm  
> > taking on faith that they know for sure that this is cyanotype  
> > over platinum and not hand-applied color over platinum.  I'd be  
> > willing to bet big bucks that he simply colored in the moon  
> > (notice that he didn't think to color in a reflection of it in the  
> > water).
> Fools rush in... Which is to say, it looks to me from the 3 images  
> on Katharine's site, that the most (only?) truly beautiful one is  
> the 3rd, that is, with the blue sky and the possibly hand-colored  
> moon.
>
> Do the others actually look like the small version on my old  
> monitor from a website grab shot -- in which case, could this be a  
> case of reputation causing value?  Whatever, I'd only bid 1.9  
> million $ (or was it 2.9 million?) for the last one.
>
> With again thanx to Katharine... (And what could they do to her?  
> That jail is already full up.)
>
> J.
>
> > http://www.pacifier.com/~kthayer/html/Steichenpond.html
> >
> > As for the Flatiron, that doesn't seem quite as clearcut to me,  
> > and besides there are so many copies of that image (mostly  
> > reproductions from a copyneg made from the original gum print)  
> > that it's almost impossible to say which one we're talking about.   
> > The Met alone has five versions of it, I think, and the version  
> > they show on their website doesn't correspond by date and  
> > description to any of the ones listed in the catalog of the  
> > Stieglitz collection, so it's all pretty confusing.  But would you  
> > say it's probably true of this one?
> >
> > http://www.metmuseum.org/toah/hd/pict/ho_33.43.39.htm
> >
> > Katharine
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > http://www.theartwolf.com/imagenestAW/steichen_pond.jpg
> > the actual $2.9 million print?