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#1007 - Unknown
Flower Photogram 4, circa 1900
“If you see a tree as blue, then make it blue.”
~ Paul Gauguin
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#907 - Charles Scowen
The Lake Kandy, Sri Lanka 1880
“I haven’t been everywhere, but it’s on my list.”
~ Susan Sontag
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#6 - Julia Margaret Cameron
The Dream (Mary Ann Hillier), 1869
Taking up photography at the age of 40 years old, urged on by her children as an antidote to her husband leaving to run the family plantations in India, Julia Margaret Cameron became the first great female photographer. It is so hard to find her prints in such perfect condition as this one. I had collected several in the past in not so great a condition but it was always a dream to find a 10. My dream came true with this one and it just transports me to a special pace each time I look at it.
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#1 - Anonymous
The Wailing Wall, Jerusalem c. 1860
Jerusalem has been, and is, the spiritual home to three major religions: Judaism, Christianity and Islam. To say it is a magical place is a great understatement.
I have seen and collected many images of The Holy Land but this recent acquisition is I think the greatest I have ever seen taken at this special place. I believe it to be a unique print. It is as if Irving Penn had been transported back in time.