Of Bricks & Light: Grand Vistas

Harry T. Shriver (U.S., 1831-1928): Rooftops of New York City after a Snowfall. Autochrome, 4″ x 5″, circa 1910

Shriver was an industrialist whose business became a part of Alcoa. He experimented with amateur photography as early as 1868, producing ambrotypes…and counted among his friends another amateur photographer, a young clerk named George Eastman. Shriver was around eighty years old when he made this subtle autochrome, a natural color photograph on glass.