Found Photographs

[Jim Galli]

marvelous photograph jonathon. I'm constantly amazed at the quality of these old portraits done in times of less-sophisticated equipment. The kiss principle at work. Many, if not most, modern color and digital portraits seem garish or harsh to me in comparison.

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the barbers of silver peak

Move on over barber of seville

[Tin Can]

Who needs hair when we got hats!

[Rick A]

Artist at work. Noted artist and photographer Adeline Lenz at work 1947 painting a mural of the Stackpole hunting lodge, on the walls of the great room of the lodge. She was a 1938 graduate of the Fort Worth School of Photography, a gifted painter, and wife of Mark Lenz, who took this photo of her. Negative was in the bundle handed me by their son for reprinting. 4x5 Kodak safety film, all other info unknown.

[Rick A]

Portrait of Adeline Lenz, holding a portrait she painted. 4x5 Kodak safety film, photo by her husband.

[cuypers1807]

Interesting story....
I met with a lawyer recently in my town to discuss a Civil War reenactment that going to take place over a weekend. I explained that I shot tintypes and he asked me if I knew anything about glass plate negatives. He had a client that wanted them scanned and he was having trouble getting good results. I offered to take a look at them and see if I could scan them. At that point the lawyer mentioned that he believed the photos were of a family from a town 250 miles from here. When he named the family, my jaw nearly dropped as it was my own! It was total luck that I met this lawyer in the first place and that he just happened to have the plates at the time of our meeting. The plates were not in great shape but I managed to get some decent scans of most of them. Here is a photo of who I believe to be my great great grandfather and my great great grandmother:


This is from a 4x5 dry plate negative.

[mdm]

Beautiful story.

[Jim C.]

Marvelous photograph Jonathon. I'm constantly amazed at the quality of these old portraits done in times of less-sophisticated equipment. The KISS principle at work. Many, if not most, modern color and digital portraits seem garish or harsh to me in comparison.

Equipment had nothing to do with it in my opinion one has to remember that there
was an awful lot of retouching the negative and or the print too back then,
especially for portraits, compare the candid snap shot to formal portraits
these old portraits have a painterly look to me.

The are exquisite !

[C Jensen]

Self portrait my Grandfather Carl G Jensen Circ 1910 scanned from 5X7 glass negative.

[C Jensen]

Hello all, attached is a photograph taken by my Grandfather (Carl G Jensen) in 1910 with his 5x7. This is a scan from the glass negative. I have a number of his glass negatives and this has lead me to the large format 4x5 and 5x7 world. This particular photo is of my Grandmother and Uncle.

[Tin Can]

Nice plates.

Thanks for posting.