Amsterdam Around 1900 Calendar 2027, Jacob Olie

Wall model with hanging loop Monthly overview on 1 page Includes 12 different images Size: 55 x 45 cm ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER, JACOB OLIE: Jacob Olie was a pioneer in the field of photography. Photography was his hobby, as Olie was actually a carpenter, and later a drawing teacher and director of the first Dutch vocational school. He probably took his first photos in the summer of 1861, with a self-built camera. In that early period, he also took this self-portrait with a hat, pipe, and walking stick, sitting behind a chair with his small dog, against a simple background of three white partitions. In the early years, Jacob Olie could not yet photograph very far from home. At that time, he took his photos using the so-called wet collodion process. In this process, he placed a wet glass plate in the camera, which he had to develop in his darkroom immediately after the shot. That is why Olie took many portraits of himself and his family during that time, as well as photos of his own neighborhood, the Western Islands. Around 1870, Jacob Olie stopped photographing. But when he retired in 1890, he took up his old hobby again. He used the same camera, but with a new lens. Olie now took his shots using dry gelatin plates. These did not need to be developed immediately, allowing him to photograph anywhere in the city and the surrounding area. In fifteen years, Jacob Olie took more than three thousand photos of the rapidly changing Amsterdam.