id: 157862 accession number: 1995.199.24 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.199.24 updated: 2024-04-05 11:03:12.217000 Camera Work: Number 24, October 1908, 1908. Baron Adolph de Meyer (American, 1868–1949), Guido Rey (Italian, 1860–1935), William E. Wilmerding (American, 1858–1932). Photogravure; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Museum Appropriation 1995.199.24 title: Camera Work: Number 24, October 1908 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1908 creation date earliest: 1908 creation date latest: 1908 current location: creditline: Museum Appropriation copyright: --- culture: America, 20th century technique: photogravure department: Photography collection: PH - Photogravure type: Bound Volume find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Baron Adolph de Meyer (American, 1868–1949) - artist Baron Aldoph de Meyer American, b. France, 1868 - 1949 Born Adolph Edward Sigismund Meyer-Watson in Paris to a Jewish father and a Scottish mother, de Meyer was educated in Dresden. The King of Saxony conferred the title of baron so that de Meyer and his wife, Donna Olga Alberta Caraccio, could attend the 1901 coronation of England's King Edward VII. Olga was Edward's goddaughter and was reputed also to have been his illegitimate child. De Meyer's work falls into two distinct phases. Until 1914 the photographer and his elegant wife led a privileged and stylish life, intimates of European royalty and of accomplished artists. De Meyer produced society portraits as well as photographs of the avant-garde -- including his famous images of Nijinsky and the Ballet Russe. A member of the Linked Ring (1898 - 1909), his work was shown at Stieglitz's gallery "291" and published in Camera Work (the subject of the entire October 1912 issue). Due to the stirrings of the First World War and de Meyer's ties to Germany, in 1914 he and Olga moved to the United States, where he put his familiarity with high society and expertise in photography and art to use for Condé Nast's publications. He was among the first professional photographers of fashion and is considered a preeminent practitioner. His work for Vogue, Vanity Fair, and later Harper's Bazaar pioneered a new and expanding field. De Meyer later returned to Europe, and then again to America, settling in Hollywood during World War II. The baroness died in Europe in 1929. De Meyer died in Hollywood after the war, when interest in his work had subsided substantially. T.W.F. * Guido Rey (Italian, 1860–1935) - artist Guido Rey Italian, 1860-1935 Guido Rey began photographing mountain landscapes around 1885. Although influenced by photographers Emilio Gallo, Vittorio Besso, and his cousin, Vittorio Sella, Rey turned to the classical world for inspiration around 1893, studying antique architecture, furniture, and costumes to give his work an authenticity and spirit that would impress photographers Wilhelm von Gloeden and Baron von Pluschkow. Rey exhibited his classically inspired work in 1898, winning a gold medal at the National Exposition in his native Turin. By 1902, however, having internalized the paintings of Jan Vermeer, he began to incorporate a new poeticism in his photographs, creating luminescent and strong chiaroscuro effects within intimate, domestic arrangements. That year, in the exhibition Fotografia Artistica, he was lauded by his contemporaries for his fresh approach. Through his written contributions to the Studio, exhibitions in New York, Chicago, and London, and inclusion of two photographs in Camera Work in 1908, Rey became of the best known Italian pictorialists. K.L.C. * William E. Wilmerding (American, 1858–1932) - artist William E. Wilmerding American, 1858-1932 Pictorial photographer William Wilmerding was active in New York during the early 20th century. In 1896 he joined the newly formed Camera Club of New York and from 1899-1903 served as the club's treasurer as well as head of the smoker and dinner committees. He was also a member of the Photo-Secession; in 1908 Alfred Stieglitz included Wilmerding's image of New York City, Over the House-Tops New York, in the October issue of Camera Work. M.M. --- measurements: state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES