LEHNERT & LANDROCK

Lehnert & Landrock are the last heirs to the vague orientalist who attracted a great number of artists during the 19th century.

Photographer and creator, Lehnert is the first to discover the East. Since 1904, it joins Ernst Landrock whose administrative spirit anticipates the possibility of commercial successes. To the First World War, Algeria and Tunisia form the framework of their association.
Scenes of the desert, oases or put in scene of naked orientalists, such are the first successes of Lehnert & Landrock which they diffuse in the shape of photographs, photoengravings or postcards.

After the war and an interlude forced in Switzerland, the two associated ones settle in Egypt where they create the East Kunst Verlag. In addition to a very complete and traditional vision of the country, Lehnert & Landrock have the privilege to photograph the treasures of the tomb of Toutânkhamon exposed to the Museum of Cairo. It is in Palestine that their adventure with the image of the peaceful cohabitation of two communities continues.

They separate in 1930 leaving behind them a single glance on the East, not deprived of the leaning Westerner for the exoticism and the erotism but also very concerned of the respect of the traditional values.

MOVIES PHOTOGRAPHY

For a long time, the movies photography (photographs of actors or film scenes) was neglected by the merchants and the collectors. Neglected because regarded as out of interest by those which looked after the “vintages” prints of great photographers…

Then one day, we saw appearing in auction sales the portraits of Marlène Dietrich, Garbo, or of Marilyn Monroe and James Dean. These portraits were signed by Masters of Hollywood like Hurrell or Sinclair Bull, Halsman, Lawrence Shiller or Sanford Roth.

And the collectors understood that to have in their living room a portrait of Marilyn could bring dreams…

In France, they are the great movies photographs which revealed Raymond Voinquel or Roger Corbeau.
One seeks the film photographs such as "La Belle et la Bète , Les Enfants du Paradis, Le jour se lève, la Bête Humaine, Pépé le Moko, Marius" for their portraits of Jean Gabin, Arletty, Jean Marais, Raimu, etc…

One discovers also an interest for the Sixties and the New Wave. There are the photographs of Bardot and Jeanne Moreau who should be found as Alain Delon and Belmondo.
The films of Jean-Luc Godard and François Truffaut are also very demanded because these prints have more than 40 years and become rare.

The Italian cinema is also very in vogue: ClaudiaCardinale, Sophia Loren and Silvana Mangano are with Antonioni and Fellini the subjects which like.

But in Cinema as in Photographt, you must first buy according to your emotions, but never forget for movies photographs : a beautiful photograph of a small film will be always better than a bad photograph of a blockbuster !

SHOOTING TECHNIQUES

DAGUERREOTYPE
This invention revolutionizes Europe and United States for suppressing painting and its portraits.
This process, containing a copper plate covered with a layer of silver, made it possible to obtain an image full with details appearing into negative or positive according to the angle under which one looks at it.

CALOTYPE
This process consisted in treating with potassium iodide a paper sheet coated with a solution with silver nitrates.
One obtained negative, then positive by contact with a salted paper. The negative one coated of wax became transparent.

COLLODION
Replacing the Daguerreotype and the calotype, collodion made it possible to obtain negative quickly and very precisely.
These plates, prepared in the black, required a preparation and a very delicate use, obliging the photographers to move with their laboratories.
Nadar, Gray or Watkins was large users of this process.

AMBROTYPE
A glass plate, covered with collodion, was placed on a black bottom. One thus obtained a single positive image, less rich than the daguerreotype.

FERROTYPE
On the basis of iron plate blackened, the ferrotyype was more economic than the daguerreotype. It was mainly used for the portraits by the travelling photographers.

PLAQUE ARGENTIQUE
Containing an emulsion with silver gelatino-bromide (silver gelatin and salts), this process made disappear all the others. At the same time simple and fast, it was preserved a long time before use.

FILM ARGENTIQUE
The silver emulsion is deposited on a flexible film. This one requires revealing and a fixer chemical to provide negative.

PLAQUE AUTOCHROME
In spite of its fragile support, this process was the success of the first slide color.
This plate out of glass was coated with three types of potato flours (red, purple and green) covered with a varnish. The collection Albert Khan comprises several thousands of them.

POLAROID
The polaroid truly developed in ammées the 60, with the appartition of a simple and cheap reliable apparatus. One obtains a positive image in one minute but the tests are degraded quickly in time.

NUMERIQUE
As the silver emulsions rang the knells of the other processes, the numerical one appeared at the end of the Eighties, seems to have to supplant silver chemistry.
Obtained starting from an electronic sensor transforming the image into a binary file displayable by a software on a screen or printable on a support.

BOOKS OF JAPANES PHOTOGRAPHS

Here is a list of the Japanese photographs books considered as the most important after war. Among all these “unavoidable”, the rarest are marked by one * (and for ten masterpieces by one !)

For each book, we mention his complete state (if it is necessary): slipcase, banner, booklet in addition, etc….Note that the difference between a complete book and an incomplete book is of the same order between “vintage” a print and a “contemporary” print. There is a market for the two types of books and the two types of prints... But different prices... The more one will approach the state of origin, the more the price will rise. Furthermore if the book is signed.

We use the symbols:
(S): Softcover
(O) = obi (advertizing banner)
(B) = Case
! = chiefs of works.
* = rare or very important (even if all the books selected here are highly valuable) the majority of the titles are in English, language of use for the books of Japanese photographs.

We noted when the books are mentionned in Photobook of Martin Parr (1 or 2) and Openbook of Hasselblad Center (the incidence on the price being very strong).

Araki, nobuyoshi

Xerox documents (S) * Martin Parr + Openbook
Sentimental journey ! Martin Parr + Openbook
Okinawa - Sentimental journey 2 ! Openbook
Sentimental journey 3 – Geribara !
Nippon *
Tokyo Elegy (O)
Fake reportage (O)
Winter Sentimental
Tokyo Lucky Holes * Martin Parr
The banquet * Martin Parr

Domon, ken

Hiroshima (S) * Martin Parr + Openbook
The Children of Chikuho
Hiroshima – Nagasaki (S) ! Martin Parr
Living Hiroshima (O)

Fukase, Masahisa

Homo Ludence (O) *
Yoko (O)
Memories of father
Ravens (S) ! Martin Parr
Family

Gocho, shigeo

Self and others (O)

Hamaya, Hiroshi

Yukiguni(O) *

Hatakeyama, Noya

Lime Works (O) *

Homma, Takahi

Tokyo Suburbia * Martin Parr 2

Hosoe, Eikoh

Man and Woman (O) * Martin Parr
Why mother why ?
Kamaitachi (B) * Martin Parr + Openbook
Barakei 63 (B) ! Martin Parr + Openbook
Barakei 71 (B) * Martin Parr + Openbook
Embrace 71 (O+B)

Ishimoto, Yasuhiro

Someday, somewhere * Martin Parr
Chicago, chicago (B) * Martin Parr

Ishiuchi, Miyako

Apartments (O) * Martin Parr
Yokosuka Story (O) * Martin Parr
Endless night (B+O)

Kanemura, osamu
Spider's strategy (O) Martin Parr 2

Kawada, kikuji

The Map (B) ! Martin Parr + Openbook
The Globe theater (B)

Kawauchi, rinkoh

Cui Cui *
The eyes, the ears
Aila

Kimura, Ihei

Pari (B) ! Martin Parr + Openbook

Kitajima, Keijo

New york (O) *
Photo mail from Okinawa

Kurata Seiji

Flash up (O) * Martin Parr

Moriyama, Daido

Kirikou (3 volumes)
Japan a photo theatre (B) ! Martin Parr
Bye bye photography ! Martin Parr + Openbook
Hunter (O) ! Martin Parr
A day fly (B) *
NY 74 * Martin Parr + Openbook
Tales of Tono
Shadow of lights (O)
Color (B) *
Lettres a St lou (O)
71-NY (B) * Martin Parr + Openbook


Morinaga, jun

River, its shadow of shadows (B) !

Naito masatoshi,

Baba (O)

Nakahira, takuma

For a language to come (B) ! Martin Parr

Nakamura, masaya

Ema nudes in Africa
Narahara,ikko
When time has vanished (B + O) *
When time has stopped

Ohara, ken

One * Martin Parr + Openbook

Sato, Akira

Woman (O)

Sawatari, Hajime

Nadia

Shinoyama, kishin

Fine Day (B) * Martin Parr
Banquet (O)

Sugimoto, hiroshi

Time exposed (B) ! Martin Parr
Theaters (B) * Openbook

Suzuki, risaku

Amano (O)

Takanashi, yukata

Toshi-e (B) * Martin Parr

Tatsuki, yoshihiro

Eves

Tomatsu, shomei
Hiroshima – Nagasaki (B) ! Martin Parr
Nagasaki (B) ! Martin Parr + Openbook
Nippon (B) *
Shinjuku * Martin Parr
I am a king (B)
After war (O) *
Okinawa, Okinawa, Okinawa *

Tsuchida, hiromi

Hiroshima
Zokkushin (B)

Ueda, shoji

Sand dunes (O)
Children year's around (O) *

Watanabe, yoshio

Place of Washington (B)

Provoke

1, 2(O), 3(O) ! Martin Parr + Openbook
First throw in the world of certainty * Openbook

Ken

1,2,3

Workshop

1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8,9

Geribara

Toilet * Martin Parr
Young Ladies in Bathing suits * Martin Parr
Five girls*
Sentimental Journey 3 !

Extra :

Kon Michiko, Akira Gomi, Morimura Yasumasa, Onodera yuki, Shibata toshio

WILLY RONIS

Articles, exposures and homages in all kinds rain on this great photographer. We propose to you a few selected pieces of its book: Derrière the objectif (Hoëbecke editions), a lesson of photography where Willy Ronis reveals the slides of several tens of his most known photographs.
Place at some “Photographs and Matter” and at the magic of Mr Ronis.

PATIENCE
I am like the fisherman, or like the hunter, I wait.

REFLECTION
Except rare exceptions, I does not put in scene, I negotiate the random one.

HASARD
A thing is the surprise of the chance, the another capacity to capture the effect of it.

FORM
Only a constant practice… will ensure a control (quite relative) of this global vision, without which the formal balance of the image is unrealizable in the short duration of the decision.

TIME
The products of my seventy years of catches are obviously marked of a certain subjectivity, under the influence of a context moral, intellectual, esthetic, etc It remains nevertheless that each time, there, in front of my three eyes, it is that which has interested me, which moved me and which, all ceasing businesses, I decided to save lapse of memory.

As a conclusion:
- What is what a successful photograph?
- That by which I knew to communicate the emotion which gave birth to it.

PARIS PHOTO

From 16 to 19 November, welcome in the "Carroussel du Louvre" to celebrate the 10th birthday of PHOTO PARIS.
106 galleries and editors of 21 countries.
More than 500 artists from the 19th century to our days.