Photographers:
Connections:

Agricultural and pastoral


 
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Explore the historical evolution and visual significance of this theme through the extensive archives of Luminous-Lint. By connecting rare images, scholarly research, and diverse photographic techniques, we provide a comprehensive framework for understanding how these visual narratives have shaped the medium across the 19th and 20th centuries. Dive into our networked database of over 130,000 images to discover the pivotal trends, individual masterpieces, and deep historical connections that define this field.

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Contents

Introduction
1Introduction to agriculture and photography
Art
2Leopold Robert (1794-1835, artist): "The arrival of the reapers in the Pontine marshes" (L'arrivée des moissonneurs dans les marais Pontins) [with variants]
Landscapes
3Landscape: Agricultural
4Landscape: Agricultural: Farmyards
5Landscape: Agricultural: Ploughing
6Landscape: Agricultural: Planting, harvesting, threshing and storage
7Tea plantation in the vicinity of Fuzhou, Fujian, China
Cultivation and product
8Cotton
9Mulberry cultivation for silkworms (1898-1910)
Livestock
10Early livestock photography
11Cattle, bulls, cows and oxen
12Sheep
13Chickens, turkeys, ducks and geese
14Horses
Photographers
15Adolphe Braun: Cows and oxen
16Constant Alexandre Famin: Livestock
17Eadweard Muybridge: Buena Vista, Sonoma
18Solomon D. Butcher: Nebraska: Sod houses and farms
19Giraudon's artist: Rural studies
20Marc Ferrez: Coffee production in Brazil
21Richard Daintree: Images of Queensland (ca. 1870)
22William H. Martin: Exaggeration photo postcards
23Lewis W. Hine: Agricultural labour
24Heinrich Riebesehl: Agrarlandschaften

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