Cella, Christian, and family, portrait photograph

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1 negative : safety ; 5 x 7 in.

About this photograph

Arnold Genthe photographed the Cella family in 1935. The image survives as a safety negative measuring five by seven inches.

Genthe maintained a studio practice spanning four decades, working in the soft-focus pictorialist style. After keeping a studio in San Francisco from 1896 to 1911, he moved to New York and continued photographing into the 1940s. He died in 1942.

The Library of Congress acquired approximately 20,000 items from Genthe's unclaimed studio following his death. This collection includes several thousand studio portraits alongside other photographic work. The negative of the Cella family portrait forms part of this archive.

The record identifies the subjects as Christian Cella and family but provides no further information about them or the circumstances of the sitting.

Compiled from the catalogue record and reference notes on the formats and events involved. The archive record above is the primary source.

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