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12/23/2002 03:14:33 PM · #1 |
Jacob Olie was a Dutch amateur photographer. He is seen as the man who captured and archived 19th century Amsterdam (capital of Holland). He started with a selfbuild camera and wet glass negatives that needed to be developed within minutes after exposure. Later he used the old box with a new lens and a dry gelatine glass plates that didn't need direct development, but weighed a ton (figure of speech).
The strenghth of many of his images is showing city life and urban development. Both the poor and rich are portrayed and humans play a role in many images. Many of his images would fit in the B&W portaits as well, be it environmental portraits.
If you are interested in historic photography, check this site out for some examples:
Amsterdam's council archive - Jacob Olie
It is in Dutch, but you don't need to know the language to look at the images. You can start a slideshow by clicking auto. Every 15 seconds another image is loaded. You can also do it yourself by clicking "volgende" = next and you go back by clicking "vorige" = previous.
You can also use the menu at the right to get pages with thumnails on specific subjects:
"Straten en Pleinen" = Streets and Squares
"Straattaferelen" = Situations on the Streets
"Nieuwe Bouwkunst" = Urban Renewal
"Rondom de Zandhoek" = 'Zandhoek' area
"Schepen en Scheepswerven" = Ships and the dockyards
"Water in de binnenstad" = Water in the city centre
"De Nieuwe Kerk" = The new church
"Molens" = Mills
"Buiten Amsterdam" = Outside Amsterdam
"Dagelijks Leven" = Daily live
"Portretten" = Portraits
"Over Jacob Olie" = small dutch biography without pictures.
I own one book about his photography and the quality in the book is much higher. I find it a pleasure to browse trough and compare it to modern situations. It is one of the reasons why I started with photography, but I am not very good at it yet and haven't done much in this line of work yet.
Hope you enjoy it. It is a shame that the site is in Dutch only. :-(
Straattaferelen is one of my favorites, there is so much to see in each image.
Message edited by author 2002-12-23 15:16:05.
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12/23/2002 04:29:07 PM · #2 |
Very interesting -- being in Dutch makes not too much difference.
Is the pattern which shows up in some photos cracks in the drying emulsion on the glass plates? |
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12/23/2002 04:56:29 PM · #3 |
Originally posted by GeneralE:
Is the pattern which shows up in some photos cracks in the drying emulsion on the glass plates? |
In most cases it is, yes. I don't know if it was caused by drying to fast, or bad storage over a long period of time. It shows up in the pre 1870 photo's only as far as I can see and that was the wet glass plates period. The later dry plates (mostly around 1890 and onward for Olie) show only crumbled edges.
The photographic quality of the material seems to be very high already. The range of tones is very good and sharpness and detail very high (especially in the printed versions).
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