| Names: | Other: Frances B. Johnston
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| | Dates: | 1864, 15 January - 1952, 16 March | | Born: | US, WV, Grafton | | Died: | US, LA, New Orleans | | Active: | US | | Gender: | Female |
American photographer. Her Hampton Album on a craft school for Black and Native Americans in the early 1900s is outstanding.Preparing biographies
Readings on, or by, individual photographers
Johnston, Frances Benjamin, 1966, The Hampton Album, (New York: Museum of Modern Art) [Δ]
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Family history
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 | Francis Benjamin Johnston: Architecture |
|  | Francis Benjamin Johnston: Cyanotypes |
|  | Francis Benjamin Johnston: Hampton Album |
|  | Francis Benjamin Johnston: Trees |
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All photographs by this photographer
| Getty Research, Los Angeles, USA has an ULAN (Union List of Artists Names Online) entry for this photographer. This is useful for checking names and they frequently provide a brief biography. | | Go to website | Grove Art Online (www.groveart.com) has a biography of this artist.
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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. |
• Auer, Michele & Michel 1985 Encyclopedie Internationale Des Photographes de 1839 a Nos Jours / Photographers Encylopaedia International 1839 to the present (Hermance, Editions Camera Obscura) 2 volumes [A classic reference work for biographical information on 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.84 [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.272-273
• Lenman, Robin (ed.) 2005 The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (Oxford: Oxford University Press) [Includes a short biography on Francis Benjamin Johnston.]
• Witkin, Lee D. and Barbara London 1979 The Photograph Collector’s Guide (London: Secker and Warburg) p.170-171 [Long out of print but an essential reference work - the good news is that a new edition is in preparation.]
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If there is an analysis of a single photograph or a useful self portrait I will highlight it here. |
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