Arts > Photo > USA > Richard J. Arnold   1856-1929

Glass Plate 008-35, c 1886-1898

Photograph: Richard J. Arnold

Boulders, beards and bonnets:

rare photos of 19th-century Californians

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Friday 1 May 2015        07.00 BST

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/may/01/
richard-j-arnold-rare-photos-of-19th-century-californians-in-pictures

Richard J. Arnold    1856-1929

Rugged men posing on rocks,

butchers standing proudly

before huge carcasse

 – Richard J Arnold’s

pictures of the people

of San Luis Obispo, California,

radiate the bygone American west.

But rather than creating

authentic portraits,

he was an early

master of retouching

who ironed out

his subjects’ imperfections

– and the boulders were fake.

Arnold also photographed

California’s Asian,

Latino and black communities,

a rare move for the time.

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/may/01/
richard-j-arnold-rare-photos-of-19th-century-californians-in-pictures

http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2015/may/01/
richard-j-arnold-rare-photos-of-19th-century-californians-in-pictures

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