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ClavierCavalier

Isn't the Stieglitz one a photograph?

Tantale

@ClavierCavalier

Yes but it looks like a painting. :)

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Alexandre-Louis- Marie Charpentier
(1856 – 1909)
Nude bust of a Girl Playing Chess (Les Echecs)

Tantale

Here too a photography (not to add on my page?)

The Chess Players
Attributed to Antoine-François-Jean Claudet  (French, active Great Britain, 1797–1867)

Tantale

Here too a photography (not to add on my page?)

[Chess Players]
Unknown, British

Date:
    1850s
Medium:
    Ambrotype

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Mary Cassatt
(1844 – 1926)
The Chess Game
(1881)

Tantale

Here too a photography (not to add on my page)

Chess Players, Banaras Floods
Raghubir Singh  (Indian, 1942–1999)

batgirl

Posting #389 - image attributed (most likely correctly) to Antoine Claudet.
This is a most interesting image. It's not exactly true photograph (which uses film), but a salt print from a calotype negative (different from Daguerreotype which also predated the "modern" photographic process, calotype was invented by William Talbot in 1840  and is, in fact, sometimes called Talbotype). It's the earliest known chess-related "photograph" (c.1845 ) and has oddly been mis-attributed to William Henry Fox Talbot by Jerzy Gizcyki (who erroneously gives the date as 1840) in his "History of Chess," as well as by Ken Whyld (who erroneously gives the date as 1846) in his "Guiness Chess: the Records."

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Magdalena Budzinska
(? – ? )
Chess

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Claude Weisbuch
(b 1927)
Joueurs d'échecs

ClavierCavalier
batgirl wrote:

Posting #389 - image attributed (most likely correctly) to Antoine Claudet.
This is a most interesting image. It's not exactly true photograph (which uses film), but a salt print from a calotype negative (different from Daguerreotype which also predated the "modern" photographic process, calotype was invented by William Talbot in 1840  and is, in fact, sometimes called Talbotype). It's the earliest known chess-related "photograph" (c.1845 ) and has oddly been mis-attributed to William Henry Fox Talbot by Jerzy Gizcyki (who erroneously gives the date as 1840) in his "History of Chess," as well as by Ken Whyld (who erroneously gives the date as 1846) in his "Guiness Chess: the Records."

I was curious and looked up some of this photograph stuff and can't actually find something that says photographs use film.  Just thinking of it now, I have always heard pictures captured by digital cameras called digital photos.  Everything I can find just says a photograph is an image created by light being captured on a light sensitive material.

netzach

Daguerrotypes and W Fox Talbot heralded the main birth of photography.

Tantale

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Jacek Pałucha
(b 1966)
Joueurs d'échecs

splitleaf
Tantale wrote:

 

John Ingram
(1721 - 1759)
dessiné par François Boucher (1703 – 1770)
The Game of Chinese Chess

Nice drawing, doesn't look like chinese chess though.

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Elke Rehder
(b 1953)
 Bauernkette (Chain of Pawns)

waffllemaster

You realize the posts you made a week ago still begin "Added today"

Tantale

@waffllemaster

wich posts?

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Elke Rehder
(b 1953)
Schachabsturz (Chess Crash)

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Elke Rehder
(b 1953)
Zwei Bauern im Kampf (Two Pawns Fighting)

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Raffaello Sorbi
(1844 - 1931)
Osteria
(1892)