Christopher Wahren has been dealing in vintage photographs for over twenty years. But it doesn't seem that long! As they say, time flies when you're having fun. From an initial entree into early photography through the daguerreotype, his interests have broadened into other facets of the photographic experience including enthnography and the early photography of science.
His personal collection focuses on early photography as a form of colonialism and exploration, the first opening of the photographic eye upon distant perspectives and unseen places. As a dealer, Wahren finds a particular point of pride in the 19th-century and cased images which he is able to offer, with an emphasis on unique or rare content and outstanding image quality.
Over the past years he has had the pleasure of placing large numbers of cased images in private collections as well as in major institutions. Although it is a mixed gratification, seeing former images in exhibitions or reproduced in print gives some compensation for no longer being their owner.
His personal collection focuses on early photography as a form of colonialism and exploration, the first opening of the photographic eye upon distant perspectives and unseen places. As a dealer, Wahren finds a particular point of pride in the 19th-century and cased images which he is able to offer, with an emphasis on unique or rare content and outstanding image quality.
Over the past years he has had the pleasure of placing large numbers of cased images in private collections as well as in major institutions. Although it is a mixed gratification, seeing former images in exhibitions or reproduced in print gives some compensation for no longer being their owner.
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JJ Woodward
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In 1862, during the US Civil War, the medical officer Joseph Janvier Woodward (1833-1884) was selected for the US War Department's newly-founded medical research facility, the Army Medical Museum.
Woodward's duties included management of the Museum's medical work and microscopy as well as production of the three medical volumes for the massive Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion (1870-1888) whose final volume was published four years after his death.
In 1869 Woodward became the first microscopist to successfully resolve the 19th band of Norbert's 19-band test plate, created as test object for the resolution of period microscopes.
Woodward's duties included management of the Museum's medical work and microscopy as well as production of the three medical volumes for the massive Medical and Surgical History of the War of the Rebellion (1870-1888) whose final volume was published four years after his death.
In 1869 Woodward became the first microscopist to successfully resolve the 19th band of Norbert's 19-band test plate, created as test object for the resolution of period microscopes.
Cairo
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Expanding from their earliest use as images of personal remembrance, Carte-de-Visite photographs with their convenient, visiting-card size grew to include images of tourism and other unusual subjects.
In this exhibition we show some 34 CDV images of Cairo, Egypt and its inhabitants taken by the photographers Hippolyte Delie and Erme Desire during the 1860s.
Subjects of the images include tradesmen, ethnic groups, and noted sites.
One CDV depicts the famous Alexandria Obelisk, the so-called "Cleopatra's Needle" which was later gifted to the United States and now stands in Central Park, New York City.
In this exhibition we show some 34 CDV images of Cairo, Egypt and its inhabitants taken by the photographers Hippolyte Delie and Erme Desire during the 1860s.
Subjects of the images include tradesmen, ethnic groups, and noted sites.
One CDV depicts the famous Alexandria Obelisk, the so-called "Cleopatra's Needle" which was later gifted to the United States and now stands in Central Park, New York City.
The Skylight Gallery
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Now in its 20th year, the Skylight Gallery is an auction-format cataloged sale offering 19th and 20th century photography in a wide range of media, in line with those 19th Century photographers whose work spanned the means of photographic expression "on plate, on glass, and on paper."
A free online subscription to the gallery is now available and allows you to peruse and bid in each sale using the copiously-illustrated online version of the Gallery.
An online subscription brings you email notification when the catalog is available, reminder of closing, and emailed auction results.
A free online subscription to the gallery is now available and allows you to peruse and bid in each sale using the copiously-illustrated online version of the Gallery.
An online subscription brings you email notification when the catalog is available, reminder of closing, and emailed auction results.
Purchase
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We will confirm via email that the items are available, put them on hold, and provide a total for your order that includes shipping.
Your request should reference items using the inventory number given in their description.
In order to determine the cost for shipping/packing, please include your shipping address with your request and preferred method of payment.
Payment can be made via a personal check, a bank/cashier's check, or money order in US Dollars and payable on a bank located in the USA.
Your request should reference items using the inventory number given in their description.
In order to determine the cost for shipping/packing, please include your shipping address with your request and preferred method of payment.
Payment can be made via a personal check, a bank/cashier's check, or money order in US Dollars and payable on a bank located in the USA.
Sell with us
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Do you have interesting or unusual photographs you'd like to sell?
Perhaps we can help you!
We are always looking for fresh material for our clients.
What our clients prefer, and what we are most looking for, is fresh-to-market material of high quality.
Experience has taught us that fresh material from estates or long-term collections usually performs better than items out of recent dealer inventory.
If you are considering selling this sort of photographic object, we are most interested in hearing from you.
Perhaps we can help you!
We are always looking for fresh material for our clients.
What our clients prefer, and what we are most looking for, is fresh-to-market material of high quality.
Experience has taught us that fresh material from estates or long-term collections usually performs better than items out of recent dealer inventory.
If you are considering selling this sort of photographic object, we are most interested in hearing from you.
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