Newport, Rhode Island, 1901. "The Manger. Experimental portrait showing values of white against white, featuring a young woman holding a baby." 8x10 dry-plate glass negative by Gertrude Käsebier. View full size.
Submitted by Anonymous Dipster on Sun, 05/11/2008 - 2:46pm.
The stables themselves would be extremely intriguing as a photograph: the worn paint, the rough wood... but then with the gauze and the light and the figures and the depth of field... exceptional.
The gauze reminds one of the photographs I've seen of mediums (from the same period) producing "ectoplasm". Maybe because the mediums used gauze as a prop as well.
