| Names: | | | Dates: | 1864, 8 July - 1933, 2 November | | Born: | US, MA, Norwood | | Active: | US | | Gender: | Male |
A millionaire book publisher, aesthete and friend of Oscar Wilde and Aubrey Beardsley, Day organised an exhibition The New School of American Photography that showed at the Royal Photographic Society (London) in 1900, caused complete uproar, and revolutionized British photography. A continuing argument with Stieglitz pushed him out of the mainstream of American photography but he continued to work closely with Clarence H. White, eventually retiring to his bed and communicating with the world through correspondence only.
[Courtesy of Pam Roberts]Preparing biographies
Readings on, or by, individual photographers
Day, F. Holland, 1995, F. Holland Day: Suffering the Ideal, (Santa Fe: Twin Palms Publishers) [Essay by James Crump] [Δ]
Jussim, Estelle, 1981, Slave to Beauty: The Eccentric Life and Controversial Career of F. Holland Day, (Boston: David R. Godine) [Δ]
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Family history
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All photographs by this photographer
| Wikipedia has a biography of this photographer. | Show on this site | Go to website | | 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.93 [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.134-135
• Lenman, Robin (ed.) 2005 The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (Oxford: Oxford University Press) [Includes a short biography on F. Holland Day.]
• Witkin, Lee D. and Barbara London 1979 The Photograph Collector’s Guide (London: Secker and Warburg) p.120-121 [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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