PARAGONES & AFTERIMAGES - PHOTOGRAPHS FROM THE BERLIN UNIVERSITY OF THE ARTS, 1850A '1930

"Models/reproductions" - two terms which refer to the relationships between the images, but also to their production on the basis of already existing images. photographs were notably used as “references” or “models” in art academies and schools of applied art of the 19th and early 20th centuries century where they constituted in themselves a didactic type of images. Photographic models were an important tool for aspiring artists and their creative practice