Fotografía La búsqueda documental: Albert Levy

Como he comentado varias veces en este blog he dedicado bastante tiempo a estudiar la vida y obra de Albert Levy.
  • Si usted utiliza la herramienta de búsqueda de este blog podra encontrar varios post sobre el tema.
Pues bien es recomendable, cada cierto tiempo, retomar búsquedas antiguas para ver si aparecen más datos por la propia ampliación de bases de datos, referencias etc en Internet.

Ilustraciones de este post: Ejemplos de fotos de Albert Levy de la Halic Collection del Art Institute Chicago
 
Title/Project Name Residence
Alternate Title/Project Name House No. 1
City Boston [Back Bay]
State/Province Massachusetts
Country United States
Date Designed or Built c.1870-1880
Architect/Designer/Creator Peabody & Stearns (Boston, Mass.)
Date of View 1883-1895
View or Detail Type Exterior, perspective
Image Notes from Albert Levy's Architectural Photographic Series, Series 16, image 56
Caption/Inscription Text BLC: 56; written verso TLC: XVI - 56
Photographer Levy, Albert [New York City]
Archival Collection Name Historic Architecture and Landscape Image Collection
Archival Subcollection Name Architecture Photograph Collection
Provenance Gift of Pond and Pond
Original Format Type Photograph (gelatin silver print)
Color Type Toned
Physical Notes good
Location of Original MPDrawer 2
Website URL http://www.artic.edu/aic/libraries/research/specialcollections/digitalcollections/allcollections.html


Hace tiempo tenía localizada, casi sin datos, una obra de Albert Levy

Levy Albert. Monmory, Felix.
Nouvelles Maisons à Loyer et Hôtels Particuliers à Paris, Comprenant Vues d'Ensemble, Plans et Details.
Paris. 1895. 2 vols. Folio. pp. 1. Volume 1 contains 28 photographic images & 22 plans; volume 2 contains 26 images & 24 plans. Green morocco-backed boards, gilt titles on spine, marbled end-papers.
A superb pictorial record of distinctive Parisian architecture. The list of plates details the houses or hotels on the streets, avenues or boulevards of Paris: d'Anjou, Cour la Reine, de Rome, Dumont d'Urville, Saint-Honore, Pierre Charon, Fortuny, Danton, Vaugirard, Siam, General Foy, & c. Also present is a list of the various architects involved in the design & construction: Thomas, Mewes, Lernoux, Gaillard, Sellevier, Alinot, Fouquiau, Brisson &c.

Incluso había contactado con un anticuario inglés que tenía un ejemplar en venta. Dado lo elevado del precio no llegué a ningún acuerdo pero me envió unas fotos que, a pesar de su baja calidad, pongo a continuación como muestra.
En este caso, a diferencia de otros, el nombre del autor aparece en la primera página del índice


Pues bien el resultado de mi búsqueda actual fue encontrar que el Museo Getty,  el mayor y mejor museo de fotografía del mundo ha adquirido varias obras de este fotógrafo (hace años cuando les hice la consulta no tenían ninguna de ahí que pueda hacer esta afirmación ahora).

Title/Project Name Residence
Alternate Title/Project Name House No. 4
Street Address/Neighborhood 12 Fairfield St.
City Boston [Back Bay]
State/Province Massachusetts
Country United States
Date Designed or Built 1879
Architect/Designer/Creator Cabot and Chandler
Sturgis and Brigham
Architect or Designer Notes Cabot and Chandler [corner residence]
Date of View c.1883
View or Detail Type Exterior, perspective
Image Notes view from across the corner; from Albert Levy's Architectural Photographic Series, Series 1, No. 162
Photographer Levy, Albert [New York City]
Archival Collection Name Historic Architecture and Landscape Image Collection
Archival Subcollection Name Architecture Photograph Collection
Provenance Photographer [?]
Original Format Type Photograph (gelatin silver print)
Color Type Toned
Physical Notes fair
Location of Original MPDrawer 2
Reference Sources "Built in Boston" 62
Website URL http://www.artic.edu/aic/libraries/research/specialcollections/digitalcollections/allcollections.html





  • En resumen mi consejo es que si buscan información sobre un fotógrafo hagan una revisión de vez en cuando en Internet pues es fácil encontrar nuevos datos

Nouvelles maisons à loyer et hôtels particuliers à Paris : comprenant vues d'ensemble, plans et détails / recueil composé sous la direction de M. Félix Monmory, architecte ; photographies par M. Albert Lévy.

Albumen prints of late nineteenth century residential buildings in Paris by 37 architects. Each building is represented by a general view of the façade and floor plans



L'Architecture américaine. 3e sér., Habitations suburbaines, villas, maisons de campagne, cottages, dèpendances
Photographs depict substantial American houses in the NE United States and New England, including the cities of Bar Harbor, Brookline, Buffalo and Newport, and in the Midwestern cities of Chicago, Cleveland and Detroit. Twenty-two architects' works are represented

Este tomo corresponde a una serie de 3 de la cual el ejemplar nº2 Habitation urbaines lo puede usted ver en photocollection.alonsorobisco

Album photographique : les constructions nouvelles : 50 photographies / par Albert Lévy.

1 album (50 photoprints) : cyanotype ; 43 x 33 cm.


Photographs of the façades of late nineteenth century residential and commercial buildings in Paris and environs by forty one architects and architectural firms. 


  • Por último el conjunto de tres álbumes titulados

1989/014-Villas et chalets pittoresques ; Habitations des bords de la mer ; Villas normandes ; Réalisations et projets des architectes membres de l'Union syndicale des architectes français

 Se pueden ver en La Mediatheque de l'Architecture et du Patrimoine

La Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine est chargée de recueillir, d'étudier, d'inventorier, de conserver, de mettre à la disposition aussi bien de l'Administration que du public les ressources documentaires de la Direction de l'architecture et du patrimoine.

La Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine est chargée de recueillir, d'étudier, d'inventorier, de conserver, de mettre à la disposition aussi bien de l'Administration que du public les ressources documentaires de la Direction de l'architecture et du patrimoine.
El segundo de estos tres álbumes se puede ver en 
photocollection. alonsorobisco Villas et Chalets pittoresques

La Médiathèque de l'architecture et du patrimoine est chargée de recueillir, d'étudier, d'inventorier, de conserver, de mettre à la disposition aussi bien de l'Administration que du public les ressources documentaires de la Direction de l'architecture et du patrimoine.
  •   Además, continuando con la búsqueda encontre que también hay fotos de Levy en Redwood Library
Albert Levy’s Architectural Photographic Series 2 and 10, ca. 1880
Box 9
Albert Levy was a French photographer born in 1847, who studied and practiced in both the United States and Europe. These two series were printed in New York by Albert Levy and contain images from Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Washington, D.C. Each photograph is numbered and identified on a
list that includes the type of building, location, and name of the architect(s). There are a total of 54 silver gelatin prints (9.5 x 7.75 inch) in this collection. 
 


Title/Project Name Residences
Street Address/Neighborhood Fifth Ave.
City New York City
State/Province New York
Country United States
Date Designed or Built c.1870-1880
Architect/Designer/Creator Robertson, R.H.
Date of View 1883-1895
View or Detail Type Exterior, perspective
Image Notes view of two homes, with men on balcony of home on the right; no house numbers visible; from Albert Levy's Architectural Photographic Series, Series 16, No. 69
Caption/Inscription Text BLC: 69; written verso: XVI - 69
Photographer Levy, Albert [New York City]
Archival Collection Name Historic Architecture and Landscape Image Collection
Archival Subcollection Name Architecture Photograph Collection
Provenance Gift of Pond and Pond
Original Format Type Photograph (gelatin silver print)
Color Type B&W
Physical Notes good
Location of Original MPDrawer 14
Website URL http://www.artic.edu/aic/libraries/research/specialcollections/digitalcollections/allcollections.html