Hunting Portrait of Arno Blueher and Edmund Bobb
Photographer
Cobb Studio
Dateca. 1904
Mediumglass plate negative
Dimensions8 1/8 × 6 1/2 in. (20.6 × 16.5 cm)
ClassificationsPhotography
Credit LineAlbuquerque Museum, gift of Walter C. Haussamen
Object numberPA1990.013.342.A
DescriptionA studio portrait of young Arno Blueher and Edmund Cobb as adolescents. They pose in hunting outfits with a shot gun and dead game in front of a painted wilderness backdrop in the Cobb Studio in Albuquerque, New Mexico. They each were flat cap newsboy hats, jackets with turtle neck sweaters beneath, and oversized trousers. Edmund stands, holding the barrel of a shotgun in one hand. Arno crouches down on his heals, knees resting on the ground. He holds a dead duck in his lap, and the ground around them is full of their game, waterfowl, ducks, and rabbits. Edmund is the oldest of Eddie and William Cobb's four children. They owned a local photography studio spanning the turn of the nineteenth century on Gold Avenue in downtown Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Silver mirroring and emulsion deterioration is occurring on the glass plate creating color distortion and emulsion loss.
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