Category:Images by Wilhelm von Gloeden by printing year

Printing years are useful to set an "ante quem" date in Gloeden's catalogue, which cannot be used as if it were a sequenced list of works from an artist. In fact, Gloeden used it as a list of commercially available items from his own collection, which was much wider (Buciunì, during his process, declared the negative glasses that were seized reached the quantity of 7,000). Gloeden would, from time to time, peruse his private catalogue, and pick new numbers to be added to his commercial catalogue, entering them not in chronological order, but randomly, by date of selection, even two decades after impressing the negative.