Puyo, Emile Joachim Constant
French (1857-1933)

TITLE ON OBJECT: Tete de Gorgone
TRANSLATED TITLE: Gorgon's Head

ca. 1898
brown gum bichromate print
20.3 x 15.2 cm.
Museum Purchase
GEH NEG: 34979
83:2344:0001

NON-GEH NUMBERS: 148 / 89

BIBLIOGRAPHIC REFERENCES:
Sizeranne, Robert de la. --La Photographie est-elle un art?.-- Paris: Hachette, 1899. p. 49.//
Sobieszek, Robert A. --Masterpieces of Photography from the George Eastman House Collections.-- New York: Abbeville Press, 1985. p. 209.//
Mulligan, Therese & Wooters, David. --Photography from 1839 to today: George Eastman House, Rochester, NY.-- Cologne: Taschen, 1999. p. 388.//

EXHIBITION HISTORY:
"Last Decade: The Emergence of Art Photography in the 1890s", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, January 6 - May 7, 1984.//
"Images of Excellence", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - Brackett Clark Gallery, January 1 - April 26, 1987. (Traveled).//
"Beginnings of Art in Photography: Selections from the Museum's Nineteenth", US, NY, Rochester, GEH - North Gallery, December 22 - October 7, 1990.//

INSCRIPTION: recto-(embossed stamp) "C Puyo" versto-(handwritten in pencil) "148", "89"

NOTES: Catalogued by J. Buerger/PB, 8/84, updated 4/85, PB.

SUBJECTS:
allegory, myth
study, light & shadow