id: 157889 accession number: 1995.199.26 share license status: Copyrighted url: https://clevelandart.org/art/1995.199.26 updated: 2024-04-05 11:03:12.366000 Camera Work: Number 26, April 1909, 1909. Alice M. Boughton (American, 1866–1943), George Davison (British, 1856–1930), J. Craig Annan (British, 1864–1946). Photogravure; The Cleveland Museum of Art, Museum Appropriation 1995.199.26 title: Camera Work: Number 26, April 1909 title in original language: series: series in original language: creation date: 1909 creation date earliest: 1909 creation date latest: 1909 current location: creditline: Museum Appropriation copyright: --- culture: America, 20th century technique: photogravure department: Photography collection: PH - Photogravure type: Bound Volume find spot: catalogue raisonne: --- CREATORS * Alice M. Boughton (American, 1866–1943) - artist Alice M. Boughton American, 1866-1943 A New Yorker by birth who studied painting in Paris and Rome, and worked as a studio assistant to photographer Gertrude Käsebier, Alice Boughton was one of the best known and most successful of the Photo-Secessionists. In 1890 she opened her own New York studio, which operated until her retirement in 1931. Boughton's work was shown frequently, both nationally and internationally, and was represented in the first exhibition at Alfred Stieglitz's gallery "291" (1905). Two years later she showed there again along with William B. Dyer and C. Yarnall Abbott. In 1909 she was published in Camera Work. In addition to portrait work, often with eminent sitters (clients included Maxim Gorky and William Butler Yeats), Boughton photographed children and nudes, as well as allegorical and natural scenes. Her book Photographing the Famous appeared in 1928. T.W.F. * 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. * J. Craig Annan (British, 1864–1946) - artist J. Craig Annan British, b. Scotland, 1864-1946 J. Craig Annan was the son of Thomas Annan (1829-1887), one of Scotland's important early photographers who was known especially for his documentary work in Glasgow's slums. Thomas Annan was a master of the gravure process and a friend of pioneering photographer David Octavius Hill. Both father and son learned the techniques of photogravure in Vienna from its inventor, Karel Kli . Bringing the process back to Britain, they became photographers and photoengravers to Queen Victoria. Along with his brother John, also a photographer, J. Craig worked at the family's successful printing business, T. & R. Annan and Sons, for some 35 years. Inspired by impressionism, James Abbott McNeill Whistler, and Japanese prints, Annan embraced pictorialism in his own work and was one of the first to experiment with a hand-held camera. He corresponded with Alfred Stieglitz, sending examples of the work of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, which led to their publication in Camera Work. He also supplied his own photogravures, as well as those of other British photographers, for inclusion in Stieglitz's magazines. A leading professional portrait photographer, Annan was also known for his outdoor figures and pastoral settings influenced by the Barbizon School. He exhibited widely, including a one-person retrospective at London's Royal Photographic Society. He was a member of the Linked Ring and first president of the International Society of Pictorial Photographers, as well as an active member of many other photographic and cultural organizations. He was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society in 1924. T.W.F. --- 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