For this #TBT or Throw Back Thursday we are going back all the way to the 1880s with this portrait of a Guatemalan mother and son from the 1880s made by renown photographer Emilio Herbruger Sr. Notice how in all the antiques portraits people are leaning on a table, chair or podium. The reason is … Read more
While looking at exposure times for photography in the 1880s I came across some portraits of baseball players from the mid-1880s and the hair style of one of the players was nearly identical the some of the antique portraits I have been sharing with you, including the one above. I guess hair styles can date … Read more
Here’s another installment in the Antique Photographs category with this madre e hija portrait. As I mentioned before and you can see for yourself by browsing the other antique photographs, there was an aesthetic or look that basically was forced upon by the limitations of the photography at the time which required long exposure; that’s … Read more
This antique portrait of a Franciscan friar was taken at the studio Fotografía Central by Emilio Herbruger Hijo or Junior in the 1880s, one of the most popular estudios fotográficos of the time.
Let’s revive the Antique Photographs category with this family portrait. As you can see as you browse the other antique photographs, there was an aesthetic, basically dictated by the limitations of the medium at the time. For example, noticed the pillar and/or chair on most antique photos, a requirement for the long exposures. This photograph … Read more
Japanese-born photographer Juan José de Jesús Yas (1844-1917), was one of the most renowned photographers of the late 1800, early 1900. Below is a brief description of the life and importance of Juan J.J. Yas found at Fotofest’s Faces of History in Latin America: In colonial Latin America and for most of the nineteenth and … Read more
Fotografía Central Herbruger photography studio was quite popular around the 1880s. According to some information at CIRMA, Emilio Herbruger was the owner of Fotografía Imperial in 1880, yet here we have Fotografía Central Herbruger imprinted on the back of this portrait dated June 25, 1880. If you can read Spanish, here are the paragraphs where … Read more
Another thing I have noticed while scanning the lot of antique photographs I told you about last week is that most of the portraits are of men. Also, it seems that it was very fashionable to give these portraits to friends and people you admired. Today’s picture was taken by E.J. Kildare & Cia at … Read more
Today we are inaugurating the Antique Photographs thanks to a kind soul in Texas who donate a batch of photos taking between 1880 and 1888. The donated antique photographs were sent to my postal box in Miami less than two weeks ago since we started sharing the Brooks Buderus archive. When we finish scanning and … Read more