Carte de visite. Sarony. Birmingham ( Napoleón Sarony)
Uno de los estudios fotográficos más famosos del Nueva York de fin del siglo XIX fue el de Napoleón Sarony.
Este fotógrafo, nacido en Canada, tuvo una movida vida profesional entre Europa y Estados Unidos.
Las fotos aqui presentenn corresponden a su etapa inglesa ,por tanto, son anteriores a 1866 fecha de su vuelta a USA.
Retrató tanto a la aristocracia como a los artistas de su época y su obra, retratos principalmente, se encuentra en los grandes museos de fotografía del mundo.
...........In 1866 Napoleon Sarony returned to New York City after a multi-year
sojourn in Europe and England. A nationally known graphic artist and
publisher of lithographs, he had retired from active participation in
Sarony & Major in 1858. He departed for Europe craving artistic
stimulation. He visited the ateliers of Paris and Brussels, haunted the
studios of London. Yet what most galvanized his imagination was
photography, an art practiced by his brother, Oliver, in Scarborough.
After a thorough grounding in the chemistry of wet plate developing and
enlarging, and instruction in optics, he opened his studio in
Birmingham, England, specializing in carte de visite portraits, and
occasional celebrity pictures.
................."As a representative establishment in the production of carte and
cabinet photographers, crayon pictures, porcelains, and oil paintings
with or without a photographic foundation, is the gallery of Sarony at
680 Broadway. With a natural genius for his vocation, Mr. Sarony has
been an artist from early youth, commencing his professional career, we
believe, in Birmingham, Eng., and pursuing it with eminent success in
this city. He has received abundant public honor, the admiration of
connoisseurs, and ample patronage from persons distinguished in public
life and in spheres of wealth and fashion."
Canadian-born Sarony moved to New York in 1836 and worked as a
lithographer for Nathaniel Currier until he established his own firm in
1843. Originally self-taught, in 1858 he went to Europe for artistic
training. In 1864 he apprenticed himself to his brother, Oliver Sarony, a noted photographer in Scarborough. Within a year he went to Birmingham and partnered with R. W. Thrupp and Martin Laroche.
Oscar Wilde. Met Museum
Es autor de uno de los retratos más reproducidos de Oscar Wilde.
...........Wilde appeared in Sarony's studio dressed in the attire he would wear at his lectures: a jacket and vest of velvet, silk knee breeches and stockings, and slippers adorned with grosgrain bows--the costume he wore as a member of the Apollo Lodge, a Freemason society at Oxford. Sarony took many photographs of Wilde, in a variety of poses. Here, his features not yet bloated by self-indulgence and high living, Wilde leans toward the viewer as though engaging him in dialogue,
Met Museum
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