Luminous-Lint - for collectors and connoisseurs of fine photography
HOME  BACKFREE NEWSLETTER

Getting around

 

HomeWhat's NewContentsVisual IndexesOnline ExhibitionsPhotographersGalleries and DealersThemes
IndexAbstractEroticaFashionLandscapeNaturePhotojournalismPhotomontagePictorialismPortraitScientificStill lifeStreetWar
TimelinesTechniquesLibraryImages and WordsSupport 
 
Thumbnail 
Open your eyes
 

Social media

Share |

 
  
Visual indexes
 
Thumbnail 
Greece
 
  
Thumbnail 
Italy
 
  
Thumbnail 
India
 
  
 

HomeContents > People > Photographers > H.H. Bennett

Names:
Born: Henry Hamilton Bennett 
Dates:  1843 - 1908
Born:  Canada, Quebec, Farnham
Died:  US, WI, Madison
Active:  US
Gender:  Male
 
  
19th century American landscape photographer, producer of stereograph views, inventor, promoter and entrepreneur; known as the "man who made Wisconsin Dells famous". He worked from 1865 to 1908 building a new studio in 1875. The Studio is the oldest family operated studio in America (1865-1998) and one of the oldest continually operated studios in America.
 
In 1998 the family gave the Studio, additional property, and entire collection to the Wisconsin Historical Society and it was opened to the public in June 2000.

Preparing biographies

 
Thumbnail
H.H. Bennett
Henry Hamilton Bennett with his Family 
1888 (ca)
 
  
Family history 
  
If you are related to this photographer and interested in tracking down your extended family we can place a note here for you to help. It is free and you would be amazed who gets in touch. 
  
alan@luminous-lint.com
 
  
QR code 
  
 
  

Visual indexes

ThumbnailH.H. Bennett: No. 135 Gates Ravine
 
 
All photographs by this photographer 
  
 

Internet biographies

Terms and Conditions

 
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
 

Internet resources

Terms and Conditions

 
H. H. Bennett Studio & History Center 
http://www.wisconsinhistory.org ... 
Henry Hamilton Bennett (1843-1908) was a 19th photographic pioneer and inventor. The Wisconsin Historical Society manages his studio which has been renovated to as it was in 1908. 
  
 

Useful printed stuff

If there is an analysis of a single photograph or a useful self portrait I will highlight it here.

 
• Sobieszek, Robert A. and Deborah Irmas 1994 the camera i: Photographic Self-Portraits (Los Angeles: LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art) p.207, Plate 8 [When the Audrey and Sydney Irmas collection was donated to LACMA - Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 1992 the museum gained a remarkable collection of self portraits of notable photographers. If you need a portrait of H.H. Bennett this is a useful starting point.] 
  
• Szarkowski, John 1973 Looking at Photographs: 100 Pictures from the Collection of The Museum of Modern Art (New York: The Museum of Modern Art) p.44 [Analyzes a single photograph by H.H. Bennett.] 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
HOME  BACKFREE NEWSLETTER