biografía de Gertrude Stanton KÄSEBIER (1852-1934)

Lugar de nacimiento: Des Moines, IA

Lugar de defunción: NYC

Direcciones: NYC

Profesión: Photographer, painter

Estudios: PIASch, c.1888 (painting); Paris (painting); Germany, 1897 (with a photography chemist)

Exposiciones: New York Camera Club, 1898; Photo-Secession; Philadelphia Salon, 1898; New School of Am. Photography" at Royal Photogr. Soc., London, 1900; Albright AG Intl. Expo., Buffalo, 1910; S. Indp. A., 1919; Brooklyn IA, 1929."

Asociaciones: Philadelphia Salon (July), 1899; Linked Ring (first woman elected) 1900; Photo-Secession (founder-member), 1902-ousted 1910; founder (with C. White, A.L. Coburn) of Pictorial Photographers of Am., 1916.

Obra: AIC; IMP; LOC; MMA; MoMA; Mus. New Mexico; NOMA; Princeton; Royal Photogr. Soc.

Comentarios: Although she began her training as a painter, by 1893 she was concentrating on photography in her Paris studio. In 1897 she opened her studio in NYC and soon became one of the leading pioneers of pictorial photography. She is best known for her mother-and-child scenes, and portraits of Rodin and Stieglitz. Her work excelled among the photographers working in a painterly" style and was illustrated in Scribner"s, McClure"s, Camera Notes, Camera Work, and others.

Fuentes: Ness & Orwig, Iowa Artists of the First Hundred Years, 119; Witkin & London, 172"

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