| Dates: | 1856, (1854 Grove Art Online) - 1930 | | Born: | Great Britain, London (Great Britain, Suffolk, Lowestoft - Grove Art Online) | | Active: | Great Britain | | Gender: | Male |
An early exponent of impressionistic photography, Davison was also a wealthy managing director of Kodak and ardent social reformer, and a founder member of the Linked Ring Brotherhood. He was a great photographic catalyst to his contemporaries although his own work has been neglected since then.
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General reading
Davison, George, 1890, ‘Photographing Figures in Action‘, Photographic Art Journal, vol.3, no.31, pp.80-81 [Δ]
Davison, George, 1890, ‘The Limits and Possibilities of Art Photography‘, Photographic Quarterly, vol.3, pp.206-216. [Δ]
Davison, George, 1890, January, ‘Instantaneous or Time Exposures for Figures in Landscape‘, Photographic Art Journal, vol.3, no.27, pp.7-8 [Δ]
Davison, George, 1891, ‘A Reply to Dr. Emerson's Renunciation‘, Photographic Art Journal, vol.4, no.43, pp.72 [Δ]
Davison, George, 1891, ‘Impressionism in Photography‘, Photographic Art Journal, vol.4, no.39, pp.9-10 [Δ]
Davison, George, 1891, ‘Limitations in Artistic Photography‘, Photographic Art Journal, vol.4, no.47 , pp.126-127 [Δ]
Davison, George, 1891, ‘Shall We Renounce?‘, Photographic Quarterly, vol.2, no.8, pp.275-282 [Δ]
Davison, George, 1891, ‘Specialists in Art Photography‘, Photographic Art Journal, vol.41, pp.30-31 [Δ]
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