Fotógrafo Sommer. Fotografía antigua Italia. Pompeya.
Sommer fue un fotógrafo alemán cuya labor se desarrolló, en gran parte en Italia, especialmente en el Sur y en Roma aunque también viajó por toda Europa. Su labor se desarrolló durante muchos años, casi toda la segunda mitad del siglo. XIX.Pompeya fue enterrada por una erupción del Vesubio en el año 79 d.C.
Fue redescubierta en 1748 y uno de los reyes que participaron apoyando las excavaciones fue Carlos III.
En el siglo XIX se convirtió en uno de los sitios de obligado paso en su viaje anual por todo el mundo que efectuaban los millonarios y aristocratas ingleses.
Esta foto pertenece a la primera época de Sommer pues lleva el sello impreso en seco de tamaño grande.
Esta foto la encontré en un anticuario de Madrid que, me afirmó, venía en un lote grande de fotos perteneciente a una familia noble española ( bueno son cosas que se dicen...).
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- Museo Alinari Collection on line: Es, posiblemente, el museo con mejores fondos sobre fotografía de Italia. Haciendo búsqueda en su collection on line podemos ver muchas fotos de Giorgio Sommer.
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- Met Museum Collection on line
Plaster Casts of Bodies, Pompeii Giorgio Sommer
- Gallica Giorgio Sommer Album Naples et ses environs; Vues de Rome, de Naples et ses environs; Vues de Sicile et de Malte). En este link podemos ver, con gran calidad, numerosas fotos de Sommer de estas poblaciones de Italiza
Giorgio Sommer (1834–1914) was an Italian photographer of German descent who received his first camera as a gift from his father at the age of 16. He worked first in Switzerland, and then opened a studio in Naples, Italy, in 1857. Sommer worked in partnership with Edmond Behles, a German photographer based in Rome, from 1860–1872. Sommer produced views, genre scenes, and reproductions of works of art, especially of ancient Greek and Roman statuary from the museums in Naples and Rome. He also made photographic reports on the results of the excavations at Pompeii for the archaeologist Giuseppe Fiorelli.
The Mediterranean of the First Photographers by Charles-Henri Favrod
Returning to Italy, ten years later, in Naples, Giorgio Sommer and Robert Rive began a systematic census of the monuments
and daily life, in an amazing collection that provided information on Campania and Sicily. It was then that the pictures of
Vesuvius and Etna proliferated and were added to the views so appreciated by tourists up to then.
hotographers traveled to Pompeii and other sites around the Bay of Naples soon after the introduction of the medium in 1839. Many of them recognized the potential market for photographs of the ruins as souvenirs for the hoards of tourists that descended on Pompeii during the nineteenth century. Giorgio Sommer (1834–1914) was one of the pioneers who reintroduced antiquity to the world through his work. A native German, he moved to Naples in 1857 to open a studio where he sold photographs of ancient ruins at Pompeii and other sites, ongoing excavations, recovered artifacts, and other images from the Bay of Naples. The following photographs are highlights from Sommer's work in Pompeii and examples of those originally purchased by tourists during their visits to the area.
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Thegerman-born photographer g iorgio Sommer operated a studio in Naples as of 1860. A group of his photographs focus on the funicular railway climbing up Mount Vesuvius, a form of rail service developed for tourism, and operated between 1880 and 1943 to facilitate the arduous climb up to the crater of the volcano.
This photograph may be an advertisement for the funicular, likely to provide adventure for the travelers in the front bench, romance for those in the back, and a safe, family excursion for the party in the middle of the car.
A visibly pregnant woman stands at the edge of the middle compartment in the covered but open passenger car.
The photograph portrays a healthy, active-looking mother ascending on the dynamic diagonal of the funicular, a daring engineering exploit on the flank of a temporarily dormant force of nature. As with many other travel photographs, it suggests that fearsome, distant, and exotic places can be accessible, familiar and welcoming.
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Among
the most successful exponents of this genre wa s Georg Sommer, a native
of Frankfurt who emigrated to Italy in 1856 and made a name for himself
there as Giorgio Sommer. The second section of the show
will r evolve around the image of Italy as a kind of paradise on Earth
characterized by the Mediterranean landscape and the legacy of
antiquity.
L’analyse
de quelques-unes des premières images du Laocoon (à partir du calotype
de Giacomo Caneva, pour arriver, à travers les différentes prises de
vues de Robert Macpherson et de James Anderson, aux photographies de
Giuliano Ansiglioni, Giorgio Sommer, Gioacchino Altobelli, Enrico Verzaschi, etc.), également confrontées avec d’autres plus récentes, révèle en effet la complexité d’une question d’un particulier intérêt.
New York Public Library Sommer
Arquitectonic fixations. Russell Sturgis Collection. Department of Special Collections, Washington University Libraries.
Met Museum Collection on lineArquitectonic fixations. Russell Sturgis Collection. Department of Special Collections, Washington University Libraries.
Plaster Casts of Bodies, Pompeii Giorgio Sommer
La mirada arqueológica
.......Artistas y viajeros en búsqueda de una imagen "auténtica" de la Antigüedad están particularmente atentos a los descubrimientos realizados en Pompeya y en Herculano. La mayoría de las fotografías muestra yacimientos desiertos, teñidos de una poesía melancólica. Muchas de entre éstas son obra de viajeros británicos o franceses, pero también de fotógrafos establecidos en Nápoles, Michele Amodio, Alphonse Bernoud, Roberto Rive o Giorgio Sommer......
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Titre : Naples et ses environsAuteur : Sommer, Giorgio (1834-1914). Photographe
Date d'édition : 1872-1890
Sujet : Naples (Italie)
Sujet : Baïes (Italie)
Sujet : Pouzzoles (Italie)
Sujet : Ischia (Italie ; île)
Sujet : Vésuve (Italie ; volcan) -- Éruption (1872)
Sujet : Sorrente (Italie)
Sujet : Capri (Italie ; île)
Sujet : Amalfi (Italie)
Sujet : Paestum (ville ancienne)
Sujet : Capoue (Italie)
Sujet : Caserte (Italie) -- Palazzo reale
Sujet : Italie -- Moeurs et coutumes
Sujet : Abbazia della Trinità della Cava (Cava de' Tirreni, Italie)
Type : Paysages -- 1870-1913,Vues d'architecture -- 1870-1913,Portraits -- 1870-1913,image fixe,photographie
Langue : Français
Format : 1 album de 196 photogr. pos. sur papier albuminé ; 54 cm (vol.)
Format : image/jpeg
Droits : domaine public
Identifiant : ark:/12148/btv1b8447284q
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- Por ejemplo en el caso de Sommer se puede ver un álbum de Nápoles y sus alrededores