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Unidentified Photographer

[Album of Snapshots Printed in Geometric Shapes]

Date ca. 1915
Dimensions Overall: 7 1/8 x 11 1/2 x 1 5/16 in. (18.1 x 29.2 x 3.3 cm)
Print medium Photo-Gelatin silver

Although some album-makers cut their snapshots into shapes before pasting them on the page, others were aided by Kodak. Not long after the production of the Brownie camera, Kodak introduced home developing and printing machines, allowing album makers to control the entire photographic process from home. These shaped photographs (ovals, hearts, eight-pointed stars, circles, apples, and bells) were created by inserting masks into the printing device: the exposed area within the mask developed normally, and the rest of the undeveloped area was trimmed away to create the white border. This photographer did an excellent job centering the subjects within the masks.

Credit line

Barbara Levine Collection, Purchase, with funds provided by the ICP Acquisitions Committee in honor of Willis E. Hartshorn, 2009

Feedback Accession No. 2009.32.37