| Names: | Born: William James Stillman
Other: W.J. Stillman
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| | Dates: | 1828, 1 June - 1901, 6 July | | Born: | US, NY, Schenectady | | Died: | England, Surrey | | Active: | England / Italy / Greece | | Gender: | Male |
American photographer, painter, journalist and art critic. Traveled with John Ruskin to the Alps and produced from his European travels photographs of classical sites, most notably the Acropolis (1870). His book ‘Poetic Localities: Photographs of Adirondacks, Cambridge, Crete, Italy, Athens‘ (Boston: J.R. Osgood and Company, 1876) included his photographs. His wife was the pre-Raphaelite painter Marie Stillman (née Spartali).Preparing biographies
General reading
Lindquist-Cock, Elizabeth, 1979, ‘Stillman, Ruskin and Rossetti: The Struggle between Nature and Art‘, History of Photography, vol.3, no.1, pp.1-14 [Δ]
Readings on, or by, individual photographers
Stillman, William James, 1876, Poetic Localities: Photographs of Adirondacks, Cambridge, Crete, Italy, Athens, (Boston: J.R. Osgood and Company) isbn-10: 0893813168 isbn-13: 978-0893813161 [Reprinted by Aperture, in association with the International Center of Photography, 1988] [Δ]
Szegedy-Maszak, Andrew, 2009, spring, ‘Athens. Photographed by W.J. Stillman‘, Princeton University Library Chronicle [Δ]
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