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Salon jury, Philadelphia – Historic Print

Salon jury, Philadelphia, [1899] — historic photograph
Salon jury, Philadelphia, [1899]. Historic photograph from the Philadelphia collection.

(Originally scanned by the Library of Congress. Each image is professionally and digitally cleaned of artifacts such as color bars and extra borders prior to printing.)

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Five people named in this record, four of them leading figures of the pictorialist movement, make the subject plain: a jury gathered in Philadelphia around 1899 to judge work for a juried photographic salon. Gertrude Käsebier, Clarence H. White, F. Holland Day and Frances Benjamin Johnston all championed soft-focus, art-driven photography that sought a place beside painting and printmaking. The Philadelphia salons of the late 1890s were among the main showcases for that work. Henry Troth, a Philadelphia photographer tied to the city's camera circles, belongs to the same local picture, and the group portrait offers a rare look at who was deciding what counted as art photography at the turn of the century.

Created / published[1899]
Medium1 photographic print.
GenreNew Platz
NotesForms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress). Exhibited: Eva Watson Schütze : Photographer" at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art
SubjectsWhite, Clarence H.,--1871-1925. Käsebier, Gertrude,--1852-1934. Troth, Henry. Day, F. Holland (Fred Holland),--1864-1933. Johnston, Frances Benjamin,--1864-1952.
SourceLibrary of Congress, Prints and Photographs Division
Original scan1,536 × 527 px · prints to 5 × 2 in at 300 dpi
ReferenceAMZ-SOTP-HPA-145664

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