Artist Birthday: William Larson
Photographer William Larson was a pioneer of many unique experiments in his art form. These included printing photos on unusual materials, experimenting with photography through fax machines, and ...
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Artist Birthday: William Bell
The Civil War (1861–1865) was one of the earliest major wars that was extensively documented by the young art form of photography. William Bell started his career as a Daguerreotype photographer ...
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Artist Birthday: Marcus Aurelius Root
Marcus Root was one of the first of a group of pioneer Daguerreotype photographers, among the first to open a portrait studio. He was an early advocate of photographers being considered artists. ...
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Artist Birthday: Marion Post Wolcott
Starting in the middle of the 1800s, women were encouraged to pursue photography as an art form because it could be learned at home, and women would not have to risk seeing a nude model at art academi ...
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Artist Birthday: William H. Jackson
Jackson took photographs of Shoshone Falls numerous times from every conceivable angle. Like the other photographers who were early chroniclers of the Western territories, Jackson's photographs emphas ...
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What's Old is New Again: Barbara Ess
One of my greatest treats is to show you art that is a little bit of a surprise, whether it be subject matter, style, period, whatever. It tickles my art history bone to be able to show you works of a ...
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Pictorialist Photographer: Gertrude Käsebier
One of my favorite periods in the history of photography is from the early period, when there was a debate in artists’ circles as to whether or not photography was “fine art.” Ironic ...
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