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accession number:	1995.199.18.i
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Camera Work: The Spider, 1907. William B. Dyer (American, 1860–1931). Photogravure; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Museum Appropriation 1995.199.18.i

title:				Camera Work: The Spider
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creation date:			1907
creation date earliest:		1907
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culture:	America
technique:	photogravure
department:	Photography
collection:	PH - Photogravure
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* 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.
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