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Wallace Nutting (1861-1941) Wallace Nutting was born in Rockbottom, Massachusetts, in 1861. He was ordained a Congregational Minister in 1887 and while he appeared to excel in this profession, he continually declined calls from one church or another all over the country. He finally settled in 1894 in Providence, Rhode Island, as minister of the Union Church. He resigned from Union Church after a nervous breakdown in 1904 and began to take photographs in [...] Click here to continue reading. Doris Ulmann (1884-1934) Doris Ulmann was born in 1884 in New York City. She began her photographic career while a student at Columbia University studying psychology and law. As a prominent New York City photographer, Doris Ulmann was best known for her photographs of the Deep South during the 1920s and 1930s. Trained as a pictorialist by Clarence White, Ulmann produced beautifully crafted soft-focus platinum prints. Her work at the Ethical Culture School inspired [...] Click here to continue reading. Tintype Photographic Images In 1856 Professor Hamilton Smith of Ohio invented the tintype or ferrotype process. This new format evolved from its predecessor the ambrotype. The name tintype would suggest the image was on a piece of tin but in actual fact it was on a thin piece of iron. These images, like ambrotypes, could be produced in a matter of seconds but with the added advantage of being a much simpler and [...] Click here to continue reading. Fred Thompson Hand-Tinted Photographs Working out of Portland, Maine, Fred Thompson’s pictures catered to the growing gift market and tourist trade. Following the lead of Wallace Nutting, Thompson sold a series of blossom, bird and country road exterior scenes, Colonial interior scenes and an assortment of other “oddities”. Beginning around 1900, Frederick H. Thompson, the father, started the business and, after his premature death in 1909, the business was continued by his son, Frederick [...] Click here to continue reading. William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) Noteworthy for the early appearance of a photographic print in a periodical, a Talbotype, or “sun picture,” commonly known as a calotype. William Henry Fox Talbot, began experimenting with capturing images on light-sensitive paper around 1834, and patented the calotype, also called a Talbotype, in 1840. It was the first instance of a photograph secured on paper and produced with paper negatives, which allowed for multiple copies of the [...] Click here to continue reading. Josef Sudek (Czechoslovakia, 1896 to 1976) Josef Sudek is celebrated for the luminous landscapes and still lifes he created during a 40 year-long career. He initially set out to be a bookbinder but, after being injured in combat during the first World War and losing his right arm, he shifted vocations. As a young artist Sudek was influenced by painting, particularly the romantic Czech landscape painting of the turn-of-the-century. To best replicate the soft [...] Click here to continue reading. Paul Strand (1890 to 1976) Paul Strand was an archetypal American photographer. A student of Lewis Hine at the Ethical Culture School, his earliest experimental photographs of 1915-17 were proto-modernist abstract studies of city life that were championed by Alfred Stieglitz. In the 1920s he explored portraiture, a genre that appealed to his humanistic values. In 1932, with his marriage breaking up, he set off for Mexico in his Model A Ford. Strand felt [...] Click here to continue reading. W. Eugene Smith (1918 to 1978) W. Eugene Smith discovered his skills as a photojournalist while taking pictures of sporting events for his high school. His work was regularly published in the “Wichita Eagle.” After a brief stint in college, Smith moved to New York where he hoped to build a career as a photojournalist. Almost immediately his photographs were published in “Newsweek,” “Life,” “Parade,” “Collier’s,” and other photographically-illustrated magazines. He produced an enormous [...] Click here to continue reading. Aaron Siskind (Artist/Photographer, 1903 to 1991) Aaron Siskind was the most important and influential practitioner of abstract photography in the United States. As the photographer and photo historian Carl Chiarenza noted, “His development as a photographer paralleled the development of the abstract expressionist painters, many of whom were his close friends.” Siskind began his career in the 1930s producing a powerful series of documentary images entitled “Harlem Document.” During the 1940s he shifted focus [...] Click here to continue reading. Jacob Shew Part of a talented family of daguerreotpyists, Jacob Shew began his photographic career in 1841 in Watertown, New York with his three brothers, Trueman, William and Myron. The Shew brothers had several gallery locations in different western New York locations, then established the firm of L. P. Hayden & Co. at 1 Park Place in New York City. A historical source lists Jacob Shew as manager of John Plumbe Jr.’s Baltimore gallery [...] Click here to continue reading. |
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