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ARLIS/NA Colleagues,

 

I forwarded the recent post/query from Bettina Smith to my colleague, Ms Roberta Wagener, as she has a specialty in photography, and following is her input.

 

Jeffrey

 

 

 

Jeffrey-

Below are some print sources that are a good source of biographies of American photographers:

 

These two encyclopedias include biographies of photographers and essays on more general topics. The nineteenth century set includes photographers who worked at the end of the nineteenth century and into the twentieth century:

Encyclopedia of  Nineteenth-Century Photography, Hannavy, John, (ed). New York,                                                       

                 London: Routledge, 2008. 2 vols.

 

Encyclopedia of Twentieth-Century Photography, Warren, Lynn, (ed.) New York, NY:

                  Taylor & Francis Group, 2006. 3 vols.

 

This title is from the early 80s but it  is a good source of biographies.

Browne, Turner and Elaine Partnow. Macmillan Biographical Encyclopedia of    

                 Photographic Artists & Innovators. New York: MacMillan Publishing       Company, 1982.

 

These two volumes are an excellent source of information about early American photographers in different geographical locations of the American west.

Palmquist, Peter and Thomas R. Kailbourn. Pioneer Photographers from the Mississippi                

                to the Continental Divide: a biographical dictionary, 1839-1865. Stanford,

                Calif.: Stanford University Press, 2005.

 

Palmquist, Peter and Thomas R. Kailbourn. Pioneer Photographers of the Far West: A    

                Biographical Dictionary, 1840-1865. Stanford, Calif., 2000.

 

 

Finally, the last two sources aren’t really reference sources, but they are a good text to search in for biographical information. These two books were published about the Hallmark Photographic Collection, which our museum now owns. These books do provide much information about the photographers included, and they also include an extensive bibliography:

 

Davis, Keith. An American Century of Photography: From Dry-Plate to Digital: The           

                 Hallmark Photographic Collection. New York: Hallmark Cards in Association       

                 with Harry N. Abrams, 1999.

 

Davis, Keith F. and Jane L. Aspinwall. The Origins of American Photography: from Daguerreotype to Dry-Plate: The Hallmark Photographic Collection at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art. Kansas City, MO: Hall Family Foundation, in association with The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, 2007.

 

 

Let me know if I can be of further assistance.

 

Roberta

 

Kansas City, MO 64111

 

Roberta,

 

Right up your alley!

 

Jeffrey

 

 

 

Hello,

 

Does anyone know of a good reference source (print or online) for bios of American photographers, especially 19^th and early 20^th century photographers?  Or even better, photographers who specialized in shooting theatrical subjects?  I am doing authority work in the Folger’s photo collection and am finding that we don’t have a good body of print resources pertaining to these areas, so if anyone can recommend something we could buy, it would be much appreciated.  I am aware of the Craig’s Daguerreian Registry website and the Broadway Photographs site compiled by David S. Shields.   

 

Thanks,

Bettina

 

 

Bettina Smith

Art Cataloger

Folger Shakespeare Library

201 East Capitol St. SE

Washington, DC 20003

phone: 202-548-8774

www.folger.edu

 

 

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