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Henry Fitz Jr. (1808-1863)
An early experimenter and businessman in the art of the photography, Henry Fitz Jr. of Baltimore opened the first daguerreotype portrait studio in Maryland in the summer of 1840 at 112 Baltimore Street.
Little is know of Fitz’s early commercial photographic work as he is best known to photographic historians through his association with Alexander Wolcott and John Johnson. The latter two collaborated in the development of the Wolcott camera, [...] Click here to continue reading.
Frank Fiske (1883 to 1952)
Frank Fiske was born in June 11, 1883, the son of a military man stationed at Fort Bennett, (Dakota Territory) South Dakota. In 1889 his father was hired as a civilian wagon master at Fort Yates, near the Standing Rock Reservation. As a child, Frank attended school both at the fort and at the Indian boarding school. During part of his boyhood, Fiske learned the trade of photography from [...] Click here to continue reading.
Frank Jay Haynes, Photographer
Frank Jay Haynes (1853 to 1921) operated his Palace Studio Car on the Northern Pacific RR between 1885 and 1905. His North Dakota studio operated from 1879 to 1889. He contracted with the railroad to provide them with publicity photographs (rolling stock, scenic views, etc.). He then befriended Philetus Norris, superintendent of Yellowstone National Park. Once the National Pacific Railroad tracks came near the park, Haynes was granted a lease [...] Click here to continue reading.
Walker Evans (1903 to 1975)
Walker Evans was born born in St. Louis on November 3, 1903. He worked mostly in black and white, and didn’t use any fancy equipment or techniques. He took pictures with an old beat-up camera with a slow lens and developed his pictures with rudimentary materials. He tried to capture images of the failed American promise, portraits of sharecroppers, old automobiles, faded signs, ghost towns of the West, decrepit [...] Click here to continue reading.
Beverly B. Dobbs (1868 to 1937)
Beverly Dobbs was born in Marshall, Missouri. At the age of 20, Dobbs started a photography studio in Bellingham, Washington in partnership with F.F. Fleming. At the turn-of-the-century, the Alaskan Gold Rush lured him to leave his 12-year business and head north to Nome. There he met A.B. Kinne and started a studio, offering photography and photo supplies. During this time, he documented his surroundings, taking portraits of [...] Click here to continue reading.
The Delaware or Lenape Tribe
The Delaware, or Lenape, an Algonquin-speaking people, found themselves endlessly relocating and in continuous conflict between Europeans and other American Indian tribes throughout the United State’s formative years. Originally settled along the Susquehanna River, due to Iroquoian insults, disease, and incessant conflicts with the French, British, and Americans, after 1740, the Delaware joined the Shawnee and occupied portions of Ohio, Pennsylvania, and Indiana.
By the 1820s, and after [...] Click here to continue reading.
Daguerreotypes
Considered to be the first successful photographic image, the daguerreotype is an image on silverplated copper sensitized with iodine. The plate is then exposed to mercury vapor to produce the image. Early daguerreotypes had an exposure time of up to fifteen minutes; later developments in both the sensitization process and camera lenses reduced this to less than a minute. All daguerreotypes are unique images and produced in the camera rather than from a [...] Click here to continue reading.
Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952)
Born in 1868, Curtis’s photographic career began in 1891 when he purchased a Seattle photographic studio in partnership with Thomas Guptill. Within five years the pair was winning prestigious awards for their work, including a bronze medal from the Photographer’s Association of America. A year later the partnership dissolved.
Curtis remained in the photography business with a strong studio trade and a sideline of nature photography, especially views of Mt. [...] Click here to continue reading.
Robert Cornelius (1809-1899)
Among the first practitioners of daguerreotypy in America, Robert Cornelius is credited with taking the first true photographic portrait in America – a self-portrait.
Cornelius was a pricipal in the family lighting fixtures business in Philadelphia and had an extensive background in metal plating techniques. In October, 1839, Cornelius began to experiment with daguerreotype plates, and in early of December of the same year, he combined talents with Dr. Paul Beck [...] Click here to continue reading.
Jean Maurice Eugene Clement Cocteau (1889-1963)
The French poet, writer, artist, and film maker Jean Maurice Eugene Clement Cocteau was born to a wealthy family on July 5, 1889 in a small town near Paris, France. Cocteau’s father committed suicide when he was about 10 years old. In 1900, he entered a private school and was expelled in 1904. After his expulsion from school, Cocteau ran away to Marseilles where he lived in [...] Click here to continue reading.
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