Hans Christian Adam
Biographic Data
| ID | 6409925 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hans Christian Adam |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hans Christian |
| FAMILY NAME | Adam |
| SIGNATURE | ADAM H C |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 44 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1908 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1995 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Hermann Krone of Dresden
Margaritis and the mysterious Perraud: Early daguerreotypes of classical Athens
As to so many other countries of the world the daguerreotype came to Greece in the year of its invention. Possibly it was someone anonymous, possibly it was the French-born, later French-Canadian, Pierre-Gustave Joly, Seigneur de Lotbiniere who was the first to bring his camera to Athens in October 1839 to photograph the Acropolis for NicolasMarie Paymal Lerebours. The original plates have disappeared, but Lerebours, the Paris optician, published…
Shadows, high and low
Humour from Schorers Familienblatt
Commércia e Indústria
The Portuguese periodical Commércio e Indústria was founded in Lisbon in 1880. The sub-title was often changed during the 30 years this publication existed, reading at one time Galeria biographico-contemporanea, later adding ciência, artes, tetras and calling itself at one point folha illustrada com retratos e biographias, a ‘newspaper illustrated with portraits and biographies’. Indeed, right from its early days this four page letterpress monthl…
View from the Top: Wilhelm von Herford on the great pyramid, 1856
The two photographs shown1 are perhaps the first ever taken from the top of the Great (or Cheops) Pyramid. They can be dated to 1856 when the German amateur photographer Wilhelm von Herford (1814–1866) became a Prussian consular officer in Cairo.1
The North American Indian
At the turn of the century, the American photographer, Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952) started on his thirty-year project to produce a monumental study of North American Indians. Using an approach that was both artistically and scientifically ambitious he recorded, in words and pictures, the traces of the traditional Indian way of life that was already beginning to die out. With tireless personal commitment, Curtis visited American Indian tribe…
The North American Indian
At the turn of the century, the American photographer, Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952) started on his thirty-year project to produce a monumental study of North American Indians. Using an approach that was both artistically and scientifically ambitious he recorded, in words and pictures, the traces of the traditional Indian way of life that was already beginning to die out. With tireless personal commitment, Curtis visited American Indian tribe…
Margaritis and the mysterious Perraud: Early daguerreotypes of classical Athens
As to so many other countries of the world the daguerreotype came to Greece in the year of its invention. Possibly it was someone anonymous, possibly it was the French-born, later French-Canadian, Pierre-Gustave Joly, Seigneur de Lotbiniere who was the first to bring his camera to Athens in October 1839 to photograph the Acropolis for NicolasMarie Paymal Lerebours. The original plates have disappeared, but Lerebours, the Paris optician, published…
The North American Indian
At the turn of the century, the American photographer, Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952) started on his thirty-year project to produce a monumental study of North American Indians. Using an approach that was both artistically and scientifically ambitious he recorded, in words and pictures, the traces of the traditional Indian way of life that was already beginning to die out. With tireless personal commitment, Curtis visited American Indian tribe…
Commércia e Indústria
The Portuguese periodical Commércio e Indústria was founded in Lisbon in 1880. The sub-title was often changed during the 30 years this publication existed, reading at one time Galeria biographico-contemporanea, later adding ciência, artes, tetras and calling itself at one point folha illustrada com retratos e biographias, a ‘newspaper illustrated with portraits and biographies’. Indeed, right from its early days this four page letterpress monthl…
View from the Top: Wilhelm von Herford on the great pyramid, 1856
The two photographs shown1 are perhaps the first ever taken from the top of the Great (or Cheops) Pyramid. They can be dated to 1856 when the German amateur photographer Wilhelm von Herford (1814–1866) became a Prussian consular officer in Cairo.1
Humour from Schorers Familienblatt
Shadows, high and low
Margaritis and the mysterious Perraud: Early daguerreotypes of classical Athens
As to so many other countries of the world the daguerreotype came to Greece in the year of its invention. Possibly it was someone anonymous, possibly it was the French-born, later French-Canadian, Pierre-Gustave Joly, Seigneur de Lotbiniere who was the first to bring his camera to Athens in October 1839 to photograph the Acropolis for NicolasMarie Paymal Lerebours. The original plates have disappeared, but Lerebours, the Paris optician, published…
Hermann Krone of Dresden
Art (7 works) · Art history (6 works) · Visual arts (5 works) · History (3 works) · Ancient history (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · History (2 works) · History and Theory of Mathematics (2 works) · Acropolis (1 works) · Aesthetics (1 works)