Daylight studio
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Today, daylight studios are called historical photo studios , which were built in different shapes from around 1850 and were comparable in structure to glass greenhouses. This gave photographers the opportunity to work no longer just outdoors, but in a weather-protected environment. The glass surfaces of most of the daylight studios faced north in order to avoid the disadvantages of direct southern light. Since there was no electrical power supply in the early days of photography, no artificial headlights could be created. Until around 1900, photographers were dependent on the use of daylight for professional work .
The oldest free-standing original daylight studio still in existence in Europe was opened in Kirchheim unter Teck in 1889. It was saved in 1999 when it was moved to the Beuren Open-Air Museum (Esslingen district), and it has been open to visitors there since 2003. The studio of the photographer William Hayers (1871–1940), which was originally built in Monkgate in 1902 and can now be visited in the Ryedale Folk Museum , is a little younger .
Another historical daylight studio has been on view in the LWL open-air museum in Detmold since 2010 . The daylight studio founded in 1909 by Franz Xaver Setzer and Marie Karoline Tschiedel is located in Vienna 7, Museumstrasse 5 . It was used as a photo studio until 1979 and has been preserved to this day - as a museum and exhibition space - almost in its original condition.
literature
- Josef Maria Eder: The studio and laboratory of the photographer . Knapp, Halle 1893 (Reprint: Th. Schäfer, Hannover 1983)
- Kai Reinbold: Kindly, please! - A town house with a photo studio in the LWL open-air museum in Detmold . Detmold 2010, ISBN 978-3-926160-48-5