id: 147952 accession number: 1974.50 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1974.50 updated: 2024-03-26 01:59:36.535000 Boulogne Fisherman, c. 1897. Paul Martin (British, 1864–1944). Gelatin silver print; image: 30.2 x 37.5 cm (11 7/8 x 14 3/4 in.); matted: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.). The Cleveland Museum of Art, Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund 1974.50 title: Boulogne Fisherman title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: c. 1897 creation date earliest: 1892 creation date latest: 1902 current location: creditline: Andrew R. and Martha Holden Jennings Fund copyright: --- culture: England, 19th century technique: gelatin silver print department: Photography collection: PH - British 19th Century type: Photograph find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Paul Martin (British, 1864–1944) - artist Paul Martin British, b. France, 1864-1944 Paul Augustus Martin is best known for pioneering work in the field of candid or instantaneous photography now associated with the snapshot. Born in Herbeuville, Martin immigrated with his family to England in 1873. He apprenticed as a wood engraver at age 16 and took up photography as a pastime in 1884. Using the newly invented small, hand-held detective camera, he began capturing the informal public scenes that would become his trademark. In 1892 Martin opened a studio with H. G. Dorrett and continued to pursue unusual aspects of the medium, such as the night photography that provided the material for his article "Around London by Gaslight," published in the Amateur Photographer (October 9 and 16, 1896). A member of the West Sussex Photographic Society and the Linked Ring, Martin won numerous awards from the Royal Photographic Society. He produced studio work until 1926, then photographed for newspapers and magazines. Martin's revealing, instantaneous views of London prompted Cecil Beaton to dub him "the Charles Dickens of photography." T.W.F. --- measurements: Image: 30.2 x 37.5 cm (11 7/8 x 14 3/4 in.); Matted: 50.8 x 61 cm (20 x 24 in.) state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: inscription: Written in pencil on recto of mount: "Boulogne Fisherman [underlined] / Paul Martin"; in pencil on verso of mount: "Boulogne Fisherman / Paul Martin / 55 Hosack Rd / Balham. S.W.17"; "W.C.C." translation: remark: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS title: Year in Review: 1974 opening date: 1975-03-11T04:00:00 Year in Review: 1974. The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH (organizer) (March 11-April 6, 1975). --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS Cleveland Museum of Art, Tom E Hinson. Catalogue of Photography. Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996. page number: Reproduced: P. 231 url: --- IMAGES web: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1974.50/1974.50_web.jpg print: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1974.50/1974.50_print.jpg full: https://openaccess-cdn.clevelandart.org/1974.50/1974.50_full.tif