id: 157800 accession number: 1995.199.18 share license status: CC0 url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.199.18 updated: 2024-04-05 11:03:11.851000 Camera Work: Number 18, April 1907, 1890. George Davison (British, 1856–1930), Sarah C. Sears (American, 1858–1935), William B. Dyer (American, 1860–1931). Photogravure; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Museum Appropriation 1995.199.18 title: Camera Work: Number 18, April 1907 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1890 creation date earliest: 1890 creation date latest: 1890 current location: creditline: Museum Appropriation copyright: --- culture: England, 19th century technique: photogravure department: Photography collection: PH - Photogravure type: Bound Volume find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * George Davison (British, 1856–1930) - artist George Davison British, 1856-1930 George Davison is known as the founder of impressionistic photography, a movement he initiated in 1890 as an extension of the naturalistic theories of Peter Henry Emerson. This, however, infuriated Emerson, who subsequently renounced earlier statements regarding photography as art. Davison was an amateur who had been an audit clerk at the English Treasury before going to work in 1897 for Kodak, Ltd., where he became managing director and a board member. In 1913 he was forced out as a consequence of his strong Christian Socialist convictions. He used his personal wealth (gained from early purchase of Kodak stock) for altruistic purposes organizing weekend seminars to teach workers about socialism and, during World War II, providing a home in northern Wales for children from London's East End. Early on, Davison worked in a straightforward photographic manner (Kodak used several of his photographs in their advertisements), but after 1890 he also began to produce impressionistic images in a more pictorial style. He joined the London Camera Club in 1885, serving as secretary in 1886, and was also affiliated with the Royal Photographic Society and was a founding member of the Linked Ring. From 1888-1914 Davison exhibited his work in Europe and the United States. He died at his winter home in Antibes. T.W.F. * Sarah C. Sears (American, 1858–1935) - artist Sarah C. Sears American, 1858-1935 Sarah Sears (born Sarah Choate in Cambridge, Massachusetts) was an amateur painter and photographer active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. After studying painting at the Cowles Art School and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, Choate married Joshua Montgomery Sears, a wealthy Boston real estate owner, in 1881. A talented watercolorist, she won prizes at the 1893 World's Columbian Exposition in Chicago, the 1900 Exposition Universelle in Paris, and the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition in St. Louis. In the 1890s Sears took up photography and soon began exhibiting her work in photographic salons in the United States and Europe. Her work was included in two major European exhibitions: the show of American women photographers organized by Frances Benjamin Johnston for the Exposition Universelle in Paris (held in conjunction with the International Photographic Congress, 1900) and F. Holland Day's New School of American Photography, which was shown in London (1900) and Paris (1901). Sears became a member of the Photo-Secession and the Linked Ring in 1904, and in 1907 her work was reproduced in Camera Work. M.M. * William B. Dyer (American, 1860–1931) - artist William B. Dyer American, 1860-1931 In 1895, a year after moving to Chicago, William Buckingham Dyer (born in Racine, Wisconsin) bought a camera and soon became an enthusiastic pictorial photographer. By 1899 he was exhibiting in photographic salons in New York and Philadelphia and had provided illustrations for James Whitcomb Riley's popular Love Lyrics. The following year Dyer illustrated Margaret E. Sangster's book Winsome Womanhood. Clarence H. White and Alfred Stieglitz were both early supporters of Dyer. White exhibited Dyer's work at the Newark Camera Club in Ohio (1899-1900); Dyer's friendship with Stieglitz led him to become a founding member of the Photo-Secession in 1902, and his work was included in many of the group's exhibitions. In 1907 Stieglitz reproduced two of Dyer's images in Camera Work and featured his photographs, along with those of Alice M. Boughton and C. Yarnall Abbott, in an exhibition at the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession. While in Chicago Dyer also worked as a professional photographer, specializing in portraiture. In 1908 he moved to Oregon to become a fruit farmer; he later moved to California, where he lived until his death. M.M. --- measurements: state of the work: edition of the work: support materials: inscriptions: --- CURRENT EXHIBITIONS --- LEGACY EXHIBITIONS --- PROVENANCE --- fun fact: digital description: wall description: --- RELATED WORKS --- CITATIONS --- IMAGES