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Photographic Archives
Most of the Photographs in our Collection are 19th century albumen prints; the most common formats are Cartes-de-visite and Cabinet cards.
The carte-de-visite portrait, measuring approximately 4″x 2.5″ inches appeared in 1854 by Andre Disderi in France and rapidly gained popularity. Cabinet photographs measure roughly 5.5″ x 4″ inches. Nineteenth Century photographers mainly used the albumen technique. This process was introduced in 1850 and was widely used until 1920.
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From the Vollmer archives, we have selected characteristic works of the most important Venezuelan photographers such as Jose Antonio Salas, Salas & Martinez, Prospero Rey, Federico Carlos Lessmann, Pedro Ignacio Manrique, Cordiglia and Julio Santos Michelena.
You will also find works from France, Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Great Britain, Spain, Japan, and a large selection of German photographs taken by Bieber, Maas, Mocsigay; other photographs were taken in Cuba by Narciso Mestre, Cohner, Charles de Forest Fredricks who traveled extensively taking pictures with Augusto Daries.
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Other works come from important studios in the United States, such as Sarony & Kurt in New York, Broadbent & Taylor in Philadelphia.