| Names: | | | Dates: | 1811, 12 March - 1894, 3 March | | Born: | US, VT, West Fairlee | | Died: | US, MA, Charlestown | | Active: | US |
Early American photographic partnership working with Josiah Johnson Hawes.
Stereographs project
Business locations
Boston, MA, US
Charleston, MA, US
*[Albert Sands Southworth] listed in Boston 41-43, 63-64 and 66-69. Most famous for fine
dags. made during partnership with J.J. Hawes.
B. VT, 11; teacher & druggist, took up
daguerreotypy in 40 partnership with Joseph
Pennell, not financial success. 43 Pennell left
& was replaced with Hawes; firm still not
money-maker. Southworth left business to Hawes
& went to CA gold fields 49, 51 returned; left
partnership permanently 62, continued to work
independently as lecturer & writer, D. 94. Both
men contributed heavily to improvements of
hardware & techniques including stereo cameras &
viewers; Hawes was better photographer, Southworth more of a theorist. Made many fine
images, portraits, statuary, scenics much rarer.
T.K. Treadwell & William C. Darrah (Compiled by), Wolfgang, Sell (Updated by), 11/28/2003, Photographers of the United States of America, (National Stereoscopic Association) |
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The Daguerreotypes of Albert Sands Southworth and Josiah Johnson Hawes
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| "An Address" by Albert S. Southworth to the National Photographic Association; June, 1870.
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This address was delivered Cleveland, Ohio, June, 1871.
From The Philadelphia Photographer Vol. 8, No. 94, (October 1871) pp. 315-323. (This text was also reprinted in The British Journal of Photography 18 [November 1871], pp. 530-532.)
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The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers. |
• Beaton, Cecil & Buckland, Gail 1975 The Magic Eye: The Genius of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown & Company) p.42 [Useful short biographies with personal asides and one or more example images.]
• Capa, Cornell (ed.) 1984 The International Center of Photography: Encyclopedia of Photography (New York, Crown Publishers, Inc. - A Pound Press Book) p.473-474
• Weaver, Mike (ed.) 1989 The Art of Photography 1839-1989 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press) p.466-467 [This exhibition catalogue is for the travelling exhibition that went to Houston, Canberra and London in 1989.]
• Witkin, Lee D. and Barbara London 1979 The Photograph Collector’s Guide (London: Secker and Warburg) p.240-241 [Long out of print but an essential reference work - the good news is that a new edition is in preparation.]
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