Christian A Peterson
Biographic Data
| ID | 7246660 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Christian A Peterson |
| GIVEN NAMES | Christian A |
| FAMILY NAME | Peterson |
| SIGNATURE | PETERSON C A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Engineering Arts (United States) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1982 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Home Portraiture
In the 1890s photographers began making artistic portraits of their subjects in the home environment. These contrasted to the stiff studio portraits that were standard at the time; key elements were casual poses and natural lighting. For the next few decades, amateur artistic photographers (pictorialists) and professionals freely interacted and both aggressively pursued making home portraits. Realising a large market, publishers issued books on t…
The Little Magazine of the Photo-Secession
Between 1902 and 1909 Alfred Stieglitz published a little-known newsletter for his famous group of pictorialists, the Photo-Secession. In it he covered the group's finances, social events and, most importantly, its exhibitions. The Photo-Secession is both an attractive example of Arts-and-Crafts design and printing and an important supplemental source of information on the group
Mary A. Bartlett
Mary A. Bartlett was an early woman photographer, active in Chicago camera clubs, and interested in the medium's creative use. This article outlines her life and examines the three children's books she photographically illustrated in the 1890s. More elaborate than most similar publications of the time, Bartlett's books featured sensitive images of children, accompanied by fanciful verse, printed in high‐quality photogravure. They are outstanding …
Composition by the rules’
American amateur photographers have been obsessed with composition ever since they began making creative images with their cameras. Pictorialists working in the late nineteenth century carefully composed their images, and camera club members today continue to analyze in detail the way their pictures are constructed. Those most preoccupied with the subject, however, were probably the pictorialists working between about 1910 and 1950, after the dem…
Photographic imagery in psychedelic music posters of San Francisco
During the mid-1960s San Francisco was the centre of the American counter-culture. In this scenic, peninsula city, individuals seeded a new community — based in the Haight-Ashbury neighbourhood — that embraced sexual freedom, hallucinogenic drugs, and psychedelic music. These hippies were optimistic about life, concerned about the environment, interested in self-sufficiency, and open to a multitude of viewpoints (except that of mainstream, ‘strai…
Sigismund Blumann, California editor and photographer
Sigismund Blumann (1872–1956) (figure 1) was a prominent tastemaker in Californian photography during the 1920s and 1930s. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area for his entire career, he edited magazines, wrote books, and made creative photographs. From 1924 to 1933 Blumann edited Camera Craft, the leading West Coast photographic monthly. Subsequently he established his own periodical, Photo Art Monthly, which he published until 1940. In these two …
Juan C. Abel and Charles Abel, Father/Son
Juan C. Abel (1869–1960) and Charles Abel (1891–1961), father and son, published magazines and wrote books for primarily professional photographers for over half of the twentieth century. From 1898 to 1961, jointly and separately, they edited nearly ten periodicals and authored fifteen books, creating a body of written work that greatly influenced portrait and commercial photographers in the United States. In addition, they both were deeply invol…
Harry K. Shigeta of Chicago
Until about 1910, pictorial and professional photographers produced strikingly different work and interacted very little with one another. Most pictorialists strove to create atmospheric, mysterious and emotionally charged images that often resembled other works of art. They hand-crafted photographs that were sofdy focused, low in tonalities and printed in such exotic processes as gum-bichromate, platinum or photogravure. Motivated by pure self-e…
The photograph beautiful 1895–1915
Around the turn of the century the USA experienced significant social changes. The Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century had severely altered both the American workplace and the home environment, precipitating a reaction against both poor working conditions in factories and the poorly made commodities that rolled off assembly lines and cluttered Victorian interiors. Big business had grown to such an extent that workers organized labour …
José Ortiz-Echagüe and his ‘Lino de Duelo’
The history of Spanish photography has only recently begun to be written,1 and most observers can name only foreign photographers who have worked in Spain (such as Charles Clifford, Robert Capa, and W. Eugene Smith). Nonetheless, there is a handful of accomplished Spanish photographers whose names have been familiar for years, and prominent among them is José Ortiz-Echagiie (1886 – 1980). The photographer Joan Fontcuberta recently observed: ‘To r…
Homage to Frith
Homage to Weston
George Timmins' early collections of pictorial photography
On 25th May 1896 a private collection of important early pictorial photographs was put on display that was, according to available evidence, unrivalled in its time. The early date and quality of the collection secure a place in the history of photography for its maker, George Timmins (1855–1920)
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George Timmins' early collections of pictorial photography
On 25th May 1896 a private collection of important early pictorial photographs was put on display that was, according to available evidence, unrivalled in its time. The early date and quality of the collection secure a place in the history of photography for its maker, George Timmins (1855–1920)
Homage to Frith
Homage to Weston
José Ortiz-Echagüe and his ‘Lino de Duelo’
The history of Spanish photography has only recently begun to be written,1 and most observers can name only foreign photographers who have worked in Spain (such as Charles Clifford, Robert Capa, and W. Eugene Smith). Nonetheless, there is a handful of accomplished Spanish photographers whose names have been familiar for years, and prominent among them is José Ortiz-Echagiie (1886 – 1980). The photographer Joan Fontcuberta recently observed: ‘To r…
The photograph beautiful 1895–1915
Around the turn of the century the USA experienced significant social changes. The Industrial Revolution of the nineteenth century had severely altered both the American workplace and the home environment, precipitating a reaction against both poor working conditions in factories and the poorly made commodities that rolled off assembly lines and cluttered Victorian interiors. Big business had grown to such an extent that workers organized labour …
Harry K. Shigeta of Chicago
Until about 1910, pictorial and professional photographers produced strikingly different work and interacted very little with one another. Most pictorialists strove to create atmospheric, mysterious and emotionally charged images that often resembled other works of art. They hand-crafted photographs that were sofdy focused, low in tonalities and printed in such exotic processes as gum-bichromate, platinum or photogravure. Motivated by pure self-e…
Juan C. Abel and Charles Abel, Father/Son
Juan C. Abel (1869–1960) and Charles Abel (1891–1961), father and son, published magazines and wrote books for primarily professional photographers for over half of the twentieth century. From 1898 to 1961, jointly and separately, they edited nearly ten periodicals and authored fifteen books, creating a body of written work that greatly influenced portrait and commercial photographers in the United States. In addition, they both were deeply invol…
Photographic imagery in psychedelic music posters of San Francisco
During the mid-1960s San Francisco was the centre of the American counter-culture. In this scenic, peninsula city, individuals seeded a new community — based in the Haight-Ashbury neighbourhood — that embraced sexual freedom, hallucinogenic drugs, and psychedelic music. These hippies were optimistic about life, concerned about the environment, interested in self-sufficiency, and open to a multitude of viewpoints (except that of mainstream, ‘strai…
Sigismund Blumann, California editor and photographer
Sigismund Blumann (1872–1956) (figure 1) was a prominent tastemaker in Californian photography during the 1920s and 1930s. Based in the San Francisco Bay Area for his entire career, he edited magazines, wrote books, and made creative photographs. From 1924 to 1933 Blumann edited Camera Craft, the leading West Coast photographic monthly. Subsequently he established his own periodical, Photo Art Monthly, which he published until 1940. In these two …
Composition by the rules’
American amateur photographers have been obsessed with composition ever since they began making creative images with their cameras. Pictorialists working in the late nineteenth century carefully composed their images, and camera club members today continue to analyze in detail the way their pictures are constructed. Those most preoccupied with the subject, however, were probably the pictorialists working between about 1910 and 1950, after the dem…
Mary A. Bartlett
Mary A. Bartlett was an early woman photographer, active in Chicago camera clubs, and interested in the medium's creative use. This article outlines her life and examines the three children's books she photographically illustrated in the 1890s. More elaborate than most similar publications of the time, Bartlett's books featured sensitive images of children, accompanied by fanciful verse, printed in high‐quality photogravure. They are outstanding …
The Little Magazine of the Photo-Secession
Between 1902 and 1909 Alfred Stieglitz published a little-known newsletter for his famous group of pictorialists, the Photo-Secession. In it he covered the group's finances, social events and, most importantly, its exhibitions. The Photo-Secession is both an attractive example of Arts-and-Crafts design and printing and an important supplemental source of information on the group
Home Portraiture
In the 1890s photographers began making artistic portraits of their subjects in the home environment. These contrasted to the stiff studio portraits that were standard at the time; key elements were casual poses and natural lighting. For the next few decades, amateur artistic photographers (pictorialists) and professionals freely interacted and both aggressively pursued making home portraits. Realising a large market, publishers issued books on t…
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