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ARNOLD GENTHE b. 1869, Berlin, Germany d. 1942, Milford, Connecticut New Orleans - Way to Market, ca. 1926 Photograph; 9 x 7 in. The Historic New Orleans Collection Though perhaps best known for his images of San Francisco’s Chinatown and his portraits of celebrities, German photographer Arnold Genthe also photographed New Orleans in the 1920s. Much of his work, including his photographs of New Orleans, reflected the influence of pictorialism, a photographic style popular in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that sought to emulate paintings. Using soft focus, special filters, lens coatings, and special developing techniques, pictorialists tended to romanticize or idealize their subject. Reflective of this style, Genthe’s 1926 collection Impressions of Old New Orleans is a series of nostalgic, idealized images of the city’s French Quarter and Garden District. LGP LOUISIANA: THE NEW CENTURY 145  http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=581 http://www.knowla.org/entry.php?rec=581

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