Your photography history post for today: by photographer Joseph T. Keiley (1869-1914), A Sioux Chief [Has-No-Horses], 1898, platinum print, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Keiley worked with photographer Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946). #darkroom #photography #vintagephotography #photographyhistory

From the museum: “Keiley's association with Stieglitz began about 1898, the year he and Gertrude Kasebier photographed a group of Lakota Sioux—including this man, Has-No-Horses—who were in New York as part of Buffalo Bill's Wild West show. Keiley, a dedicated amateur, collaborated with Stieglitz to improve upon a glycerine-developed platinum printing process that proved to be among the most painterly photographic methods ever devised. This sort of manipulation made each print unique and emphasized the handmade, artistic nature of such photographs in contrast to the work of both commercial studios and Kodak snapshooters.”