PROOF:
The Intersection of Science, Art, and Photography
February 26 – May 17, 2014
DEMENY, Georges (1850-1917) and MAREY, Etienne-Jules (1830-1904)
Chronophotograph of a Man Jumping, c. 1890
Gelatin silver chloride print
Print and image size: 2 3/16 x 3 13/16 inches
"Analyse chronophotographique du saut en longueur de pied ferme”
and 143 in blue pencil in period hand on print verso.
(P1694GD)
WOODWARD, Joseph (1833-1884)
Proboscis of Zone Fly, c. 1870
Albumen print
Image size: 6 x 6 inches
Mount size: 14 3/4 x 10 3/4 inches
War Department, Surgeon General’s Office, Army Medical Museum stamp.
Proboscis of Zone Fly in pen, Magnified 40 diameters by unlegible name,
Photo-Microgaphic Negative No 450, new series, by J. J. Woodward, Asst. Surg.,
U.S.A., by order of the Surgeon General, typed and hand written in pen on mount recto.
"1683.07" and "750" in pencil on mount verso.
(P1731JW)
DALLAPORTA, Raphaël (b. 1980)
Undetermined Circumstances, Cardiopulmonary System (from Fragile series), 2010
Dye transfer print, printed 2012
Image size: 17 1/2 x 14 inches
Print size: 20 x 16 inches
Edition: 2/3
Signed, titled and editioned in pencil on print verso.
(P1729RD)
de GAYFFIER, Eugene Charles
Forest Plant (Juglandees/nut tree), c. 1867
Heliogravure, Poitevin process
Image and paper size: 10 3/4 x 8 3/8 inches
(P1701EG)
Reproduced in:
"Herbier Forestier de la France 1868-1873"
goro, Fritz (1901-1986)
Nuclear Fission - Splitting of U-235 Atom, 1939
Gelatin silver print, printed 1961
Image size: 10 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches
LIFE Science Library stamps, credit stamp, printing notes in red pencil
and random notes and numbers in pen and pencil on print verso.
(P1713FG)
Reproduced in:
LIFE, April 24, 1939 pg. 52
LIFE, August 20, 1945 pg. 89
LIFE Science Library – Energy, 1973 pg. 166
eDGERTON, Harold (1903-1990)
Lacrosse Player, 1939
Gelatin silver print, printed 1977-88
Print size: 10 3/4 x 14 inches
Image size: 9 3/4 x 11 1/4 inches
Signed with "87.0122" and "44" in pencil in another hand on print verso.
(P1698HE)
LOEWY, Moritz (1833-1907) And PUSSIEUX, Pierre-Henri (1855-1928)
Photographie Lunaire, Pole Sud, Schickhard – Gassendi, 1894-1909
Heliogravure print, printed 1896-1910
Paper size: 31 x 23 1/2 inches
Image size: 22 3/4 x 18 3/4 inches
(P1714LP)
Reproduced in:
L’Atlas Photographique de la lune, 1896-1910
MCCAW, Chris (b. 1971)
Sunburned #636 (Mojave), 2013
Unique gelatin silver print, printed 2013
Frame: 13 1/2 x 11 1/2 inches
Signed, titled and dated in pencil on frame verso.
(P1734CM)
RABOURDIN, Louis
Grand Telescope De Meudon (Amas d’etoiles d’ Hercule), 1897
Gelatin silver print
Print size: 11 x 9 inches
Mount size: 6 5/8 x 4 3/4 inches
Label typed and mounted above image with Grand Telescope de Meudon
opening of 1 m, focal distance of 3m all typed.
Lower label typed and hand written in ink, "Hercule", the AR (16h 38m, 27s),
position (53o 22':2, 1910), time and date (0h, 30m, 0s, Aug 2, 1897) and enlargement (10 times).
Louis Rabourdin stamp on lower right of mount recto.
(P1692LR)
BECQUEREL, Antoine-Henri (1852-1908)
Various Rays Emitted From a Radioactive Substance Through a Slitted Screen, 1901
Gelatin silver print
Print size: 4 1/2 x 3 1/2 inches
“A – H – B 1901” in pencil on upper right of print recto.
(P1719AB)
Anonymous
Photogram of a Cross-section of a Female Torso, c. 1910
Cyanotype
Image size: 35 5/8 x 13 7/8 inches
(P1704AN)
Anonymous
Right Hand Anterier (fracture of the base), 1926
Gelatin silver print
Image size: 4 3/4 x 5 3/4 inches
Mount size: 5 x 6 inches
Mounted on grey paper, stenciled 34 in X-ray.
Stamped by Paris radiologist Jeuneau Duchenecy on print recto.
Labeled in French in ink on mount verso.
(P1693JD)
HINE, Sheldon (1907-2002)
Gun, c. 1950
Gelatin silver print
Image size: 8 1/2 x 5 inches
Print size: 9 3/4 x 5 1/4 inches
"Photographed with Coaxial Illumination" typed in bottom margin of print recto.
Signed in pencil with artist's stamp on print verso.
(P1712SH)
ABBOTT, Berenice (1898-1991)
Strobe Photograph of a Bouncing Steel Ball, c. 1958
Gelatin silver print
Image size: 4 x 2 7/8 inches
Artist’s stamp "Original Photograph/Berenice Abbott/Abbott Village, Maine" on print verso.
(P1696BA)
Reproduced in: Berenice Abbott Photographs, 1970, p. 149
Berenice Abbott, Vol. 1 Portraits/The American Scene/Science, 2008, p. 238
DOW, Arthur Wesley (1857-1922)
Dandelion Leaves, 1895-1910
Cyanotype
Image size: 7 5/8 x 4 5/8 inches
(P1703AD)
F. QUENISSET (1872-1951)
Comète Morehouse, October, 1908
Gelatin silver print
Print size: 5 1/4 x 7 inches
Mount size: 6 x 7 3/4 inches
Signed in pen and titled on mount recto. "41" in
blue pen and titled in pencil on mount verso.
(P1709FQ)
F. QUENISSET (1872-1951)
Pleine Lune (full moon), 1905
Gelatin silver print
Print size: 3 1/4 x 2 1/2 inches
Mount size: 6 x 4 1/2 inches
Mounted on grey paper, signed, titled "Photographie De La Pleine Lune",
dated “Le 14A Out 1905 a 12h 40m." and "Observatoire Astrophotographique (Nanterre)" and in ink on mount recto.
(P1710FQ)
Anonymous
C552G, Sodium Chloride 11x, 1959
Gelatin silver print
Image size: 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches
Paper size: 3 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches
"552G" in pencil on print verso.
(P1745AN)
From: “Photograph Book VII”, Section on Crystals, testing for Columbia Southern Chemical
Corporation, Struthers Wells Corporation.
LIGHT, Michael (b. 1963) and MCDIVITT, James (b. 1929)
Full Moon Image #10, 1965
Digital C-print
Image size: 24 1/2 x 24 1/2 inches
Edition 25/50
Mounted on matt board. Signed, titled "Edward White at 17,500 MPH Over
the Gulf of Mexico Photographed by James McDivitt Gemini 4, June 3, 1965"
and dated 1999 in pen on mount verso.
(P1720ML)
Anonymous
C622H, 6, NH-150, Crystals in Crystallizer, 1960
Gelatin silver print
Image size: 3 1/2 x 4 1/2 inches
Print size: 3 3/4 x 4 3/4 inches
"C622H" and "9" in pencil on print verso.
(P1746AN)
From: "Photograph Book VIII” section on Crystals C-600 to C-49",
Testing for Union Carbide Chemicals Company, Struthers Wells Corporation
Anonymous
Shot Perforation of the Right Ilium, 1876
Woodburytype
Image size: 9 3/4 x 6 1/2 inches
Mount size: 11 1/2 x 8 3/4 inches
Mounted on page. Text on mount recto reads: The Medical and Surgical History of the Rebellion,
Part II, Vol II, Chap VII. Plate XXXVI, Shot Perforation of the Right Ilium, No 2869. Surgical section.
(P1691W)
From: "The Medical and Surgical History of the Civil War" published
in six volumes between 1870-1888. Reprinted 1990-1992.
BERTSCH, Adolph (1813-1871)
Ricin du Coq, 1857
Salt print
Mount size: 14 x 11 inches
Image size: 6 1/2 inch diameter
"Ricin du Coq, (gross 1300 fs.)" in black ink, numbered 29 in upper right corner in pencil on mount recto.
(P1700AB)
From: Etudes D'Histoire Naturelle Au Microscope, a portfolio of 22 salt prints, 1857
BLOSSFELD, Karl (1865-1932)
Cornus Kousa, Dogwood Seed Head, 1920s
Photogravure
Print size: 12 1/2 x 9 3/4 inches
Image size: 11 1/4 x 8 1/2 inches
“Dogwood Fruit 96” on lower margin on print recto.
(P1736KB)