Emma J. Farnsworth
1897
La cigale
[Photo-Club de Paris / 1897, Pl. XIX]

Heliogravure / Photogravure
17.9 x 12.8 cm
 
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Country: USA: New York (Albany)
 
Emma Justine Farnsworth (1860-1952) was considered one of the top woman amateur photographer's in the United States at the end of the 20th century. "In late 1897 her work comprised the second one-person exhibition to be seen at the Camera Club of New York, and a few years later her one Camera Notes gravure appeared." (this very image - La Cigale, was published in the Camera Notes issue of January, 1900) At the Paris Exposition of 1900 her work was included in a special exhibition of American women photographers arranged by Frances Benjamin Johnston. By Farnsworth's own account, she had by this time taken upwards of twenty-five medals in the United States, Canada, England, France, Germany, Italy, and India." Source: Page #166: Alfred Stieglitz's Camera Notes: Christian A. Peterson: The Minneapolis Institute of Arts in association with W.W. Norton & Company, Inc. : 1993
 
Plate (Graveur) by Fillon et Heuse
Print: Ateliers Charles Wittmann
 
Included in the "Quatrieme Année Salon de Photographie" of the Photo-Club of Paris (1897)
 
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