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Fotógrafo Albert Levy. Fotografía antigua Nueva York. Twin Houses

Las Twin Houses fueron , en su tiempo, una de las más famosas mansiones del mundo.
Estaban situadas en la esquina de la Quinta Avenida de Nueva York y la calle 51.

Fueron diseñadas por dos arquitectos de la firma Herther Brothers: Charles b. Atwood y John B. Snook. El propietario William H. Vanderbilt.
 

Artistic houses vol. 1; pt. 2

Sheldon, George William
Printed for the subscribers by D. Appleton and Company, New York, 1883
Part of: Artistic houses
 

MR. W. H. VANDERBILT'S HOUSE.

...The expenditure of about eight hundred thousand dollars in furnishing and decorating the interior of a private residence (exclusive of the picture-gallery) was unknown in this country until Mr. W. H. Vanderbilt contracted with the Herter Brothers for his magnificent house at Fifty-first Street and Fifth Avenue, the total cost of which, inside and outside, was not far from a million and three quarters of dollars. This very notable dwelling, externally a modern treatment of Roman Renaissance motives, is approached by an outer vestibule or atrium. thirty-six feet square and one story high, which serves as a link between Mr. Vanderbilt's house and that of two of his sons-in-law, Messrs. Shepard and Sloane, and was originally intended to expose an open front to the street. Accordingly, its mosaic floor slopes, to carry off the rain that might have beaten in, and its treatment discards entirely the use of wood-work, the walls being covered with a wainscot of Numidian marble and a frieze of Venetian mosaic, and the ceiling with panels of stained glass in frames of bronze, and with a border of mosaic — a material in which the brown -stone pilasters and casings of doors and windows are inlaid. On either side of the inclosure stands a table of rare African marble, and at the back a massive seat of the same choice stone, while in the center, on an elegant pedestal, rests an immense malachite vase, at least six feet high.....

 

Vanderbilt era considerado, en ese momento el hombre mas rico del mundo.
Esta foto es la primera del segundo álbum "Habitations Urbaines"de la serie de tres "L' Architecture Americaine".
La fotografía de Albert Levy nos lleva a una época donde las grandes fortunas americanas construían casas, mansiones, al gusto europeo con arquitectos formados en Europa.

Albert Levy fue un famoso fotógrafo francés que, en los años 1880's recoge con su maquina la imagen de la America rica, muy diferente del punto de vista étnico de otros fotógrafos de la época.
 
Web with all  data Albert Levy 2025 

Albert Levy photographer

 La fotografía de arquitectura es, quizás, uno de los temas mas difíciles en fotografía y en ella Albert Levy es un verdadero maestro con obra en numerosos museos (Getty, Art Institute, Met)


Vease Vanderbilt Houses

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Albert Levy's Photographic Series of Modern American Architecture. Due to these series, Albert Levy is referenced as counterpart for Alinari in the United States (13).

  • Albert Levy's Photographic Series of Modern American Architecture: Second Series, Country Dwellings. (16)
  • Albert Levy's Photographic Series of Modern American Architecture: Ninth Series, Street Fronts. (16)
  • Albert Levy's Photographic Series of Modern American Architecture: First Series, Private City Dwellings. (16)
  • Albert Levy's Photographic Series of Modern American Architecture: Fifth Series, Messrs. Vanderbilt's Mansions. (16)
  • Albert Levy's Photographic Series of Modern American Architecture: Tenth Series, Sea Shore Cottages and Country Houses. (16)
  • Albert Levy's Photographic Series of Modern American Architecture: Twelfth Series, Modern Street Architecture of Berlin, Street Fronts and Apartment Houses. (16)
  • Albert Levy's Photographic Series, the Fourteenth Series: Romanesque and Gothic Churches in the South of France (24)
  • Albert Levy's Photographic Series of Modern American Architecture: Sixteenth Series, American Private City Dwellings. (16)
  • Albert Levy's Architectural Photographic Series : Lévy, Albert. 1895 (16)
  • Albert Levy's Architectural Photographic Series:  Twenty-fourth series.(Berne, Lucerne, Zurich and other Swiss cities and towns) (21)
  • Albert Levy's Architectural Photographic Series : Thirty-Fifth Series, Sea Shore Cottages And Country Houses, Bar Harbor, Mount Desert, Maine : Lévy, Albert. 1895 (16)
  • Albert Levy's Architectural Photographic Series: Thirty-First Series, Street Fronts, Stores, Office , Etc : Lévy, Albert. c1884 (15)
  • Albert Levy's Architectural Photographic Series : Thirty-Sixth Series, Sea-Shore Cottages, Etc., Newport, R.I., And Long Branch, N.J : Lévy, Albert. 1895 (15)
  • Albert Levy's Photographic Series Of Modern American Architecture. : Lévy, Albert. 1883
  • Albert Levy's Architectural Photographic Series: 3rd series, French Gothic and Renaissance, Civil and Domestic Architecture, New York: Albert Levy, 1884. (14)
  • Albert Levy's Architectural Photographic Series: 33rd series, American City and Country Residences, etc, New York: Albert Levy, 1884. (14)
  • Architectural Photographic Series, city houses/Levy: 1 album, 38 leaves of plates: photographs 36x46 cm. New York, Albert Levy (between 1880-1895?). (20).
    • Signature by Albert Levy in "Albert Levy's Architectural photographic series"

      In some cases, in the Photographic series the  Photographs are titled, numbered and mounted on blue card stock. The card stock is embossed
      "Architectural & Decorative Books, Albert Levy, NY, 77, University".
      Studies/shops:
      - He had the following studies in New York

          - A study in 77 University Place, NY in 1870-1878 (23)

          - A study in 4 Bond Street, NY in 1880 (2)
          - A study in 34 1/2 Pine Street, NY in 1887 (3).
      - At the same time he also had a study in France, 19 rue de la Chaussée-d'Antin, Paris (3).
      - The Bibliothèque Nacionale de France also has another reference in 1901: "22 janvier 1901, A. Lévy, 4 av. Pinel, Asnières" (3)
      He is also referenced as bookseller (2).

      Manufacturer:
      Albert Levy is referenced as the photographer who began the manufacture of the gelatin dry plates in 1878. All references can be found in the book Photography and the American Scene. A social history (1839-1889) by Robert Taft. See (5), (6), (7) and (8) for full text.
      Albert Levy is also identified as "early competitor of Eastman, NYC" (9). This reference relates also to the book by Robert Taft (10).

      Editor:
      The Bibliothèque Nacionale the France (2) and the Avery Architectural and Fine Arts Library (20) own a catalogue of 2500 titles by Albert Levy as editor in New York and Paris for Architectural photography. 
      • Photographs by Levy in the Halic Collection: Art Institute Chicago 
      • Culture France
        L’assimilation du régionalisme dans l’architecture balnéaire

        L’apparition du style néo-normand est sans doute la plus précoce mais aussi la plus          ambiguë du régionalisme. D’après Claude Mignot, le créateur du type de la villa néo-normande
        semble être l’architecte caennais Jacques Baumier père. Dès 1860, celui-ci bâtit les dépendances de la villa Suzanne de Louis-Léon Paris à Houlgate et, deux ans plus tard, sur la plage de Trouville la Maison normande pour Adolphe Cordier. Elles seront suivies de trois autres réalisations sur les  hauteurs de la même station. Il faut attendre une vingtaine d’années pour voir se répandre la seconde génération de villas sur toute la côte normande, signées par de nombreux architectes comme
        Jacques Baumier fils, Edouard Papinot, Adrien Jory père et fils, E. Mauclerc, G. Pichereau

        Estudio sobre la arquitectura Balnearia. Tipos de Viviendas

        Jacques Baumier Wikipedia
      • Objetif Calvados
        Un siecle de photographie aux archives de Calvados 1850-1950
        LEVY, Albert
        (1847 – vers 1905), professionnel.
        Photographe d’architecture, Asnières.
        Actif aux Etats-Unis, 1873 – années 1880 ;
        en France, années 1880 – vers 1905.
         
       

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