Glass Picture

[drywalldave]

Found this picture, it is made of glass and is fragile. Have never seen one like it before. It looks like a negative, and is black and white. The setting looks like it is in Europe. Has anyone seen one like this before, and if so what is the value

 

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[nhbenz]

I'm not familiar with that type of image production, but I agree on the European direction, as I think that's a aqueduct bridge. I can't help but think that France was more creative with glassware when this type of image would be produced, so that's where I'm going to start searching.

 

[nhbenz]

Good info TT, these are amongst the matters of which I have no clue.

 

[nhbenz]

I hope this bridge wasn't blown up in WWII... that would make it really hard to find a photo of it online. I'll keep looking.

 

[trikikiwi]

My understanding of early photography is that the negative is on the glass. I suspect the picture is painted on glass.

One of Treasure Tales links gives these examples

 

[drywalldave]

Isn't the glass plate the early form of photography? Those old cameras with the black hood for the photographer's head used glass plates. I think Ansel Adams used glass plates in his photography - better quality photos or something.

Thanks for the info, to think of it now the quality is great, It kind of has a 3-D effect

 

[drywalldave]

I'm not familiar with that type of image production, but I agree on the European direction, as I think that's a aqueduct bridge. I can't help but think that France was more creative with glassware when this type of image would be produced, so that's where I'm going to start searching.

That was my guess France or even Spain, but a closer look there was a Renault driving on the road. So that means it is from the 60's or later

 

[drywalldave]

Folly Bridge in England? What do you think? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Folly_Bridge

close but the top plate on the bridge in the picture is smaller.

 

[Cynangyl]

Looks like you are learning real quick how helpful folks are here on tnet! What an awesome group!

I saw the picture and it is beautiful! You can see right through the photo and yet the photo is very clear as well. Pretty amazing piece and would be great to learn more about it.

 

[drywalldave]

Looks like you are learning real quick how helpful folks are here on tnet! What an awesome group!

I saw the picture and it is beautiful! You can see right through the photo and yet the photo is very clear as well. Pretty amazing piece and would be great to learn more about it.

:P

 

[drywalldave]

Found this picture, it is made of glass and is fragile. Have never seen one like it before. It looks like a negative, and is black and white. The setting looks like it is in Europe. Has anyone seen one like this before, and if so what is the value

This may help, but after a closer look i can see a pillar of another bridge behind the one pictured, and the car that is driving down the road is on the right side, so it cannot be from England

 

[Red-Coat]

Just tidying up some blasts from the past (including some very ancient ones), largely for the benefit of anyone searching the site for information.

That’s a view of the Seine River and one of the bridges near Isle Saint Louis in Paris, France. Unless someone else stood in exactly the same position to take a photograph, it’s by Eric Kamp, like these prints for comparison:

https://www.worthpoint.com/worthopedia/eric-kamp-framed-matted-photo-prints-1549155436
https://www.rareartfinder.com/print...ridge-near-isle-saint-louis-france-252634.htm

The latter had an estimated market price between $38.00 and $79.00.

Biographical details are difficult to find but there was a notable photographer of that name who was a long-time resident of Sea Cliff, Long Island who died in 2006. He studied with the famed photographer Arthur Leipzig and worked as an industrial corporate photographer who then went into stock photography, but I don’t know if this is the same Eric Kamp or not. If it is, the Paris scenes (and there are a lot of them being offered for sale) are presumably from a working visit to the city.