Farnsworth Emma (3 results)

Hand-pulled photogravure, 6 1/4 x 4 7 /8 in. [15.88 x 12.38 cm] printed on copper plate paper, 10 7/8 x 7 1/2 inches [27.62 x 19.05 cm] with printed tissue guard. Removed from the original bound issue, with a single library ink stamp beneath the image on the blank margin, which shows some soiling. The image is bright and fine. A full-tone photogravure from CAMERA NOTES, January 1900, Vol. 3, No. 3. Emma Justine Farnsworth (1860-1952) of Albany, New York was an active photographer from around 1886 to 1912. She created allegorical and narrative images to use as book illustrations. Alfred Stieglitz called her the finest lady amateur photographer, and in 1897 she was awarded the second one-person showing at the Camera Club of New York. Her work was included in the 1900 Paris Exposition in a special exhibition of American women photographers. She won numerous prizes for her work. See Petersen, Christian A. ALFRED STIEGLITZ'S CAMERA NOTES. The Minneapolis Institute of Arts in association with W.W. Norton & Company, 1996. p. 166.

Condition: Good. Folio. First edition, one of 470 numbered copies on papier blanc du Marais from the total edition of 500, folio (40.2 x 28.2cm), original wrappers, [10] pp., 66 heliogravures on 56 sheets, printed in various colour tints, with captioned tissue-guards tipped in.Founded in 1894 by Robert Demachy and Constant Puyo, the Photo-club de Paris was the French equivalent of the Camera Club of New York and the Linked Ring in London, associations of photographers dedicated to the emergent philosophy of pictorialism, which promoted photography as a fine art rather than purely as a means of documenting reality. This overview of their first exhibition includes photographs by leading figures including Alfred Stieglitz, James Craig Annan and Rudolf Eickemeyer Jr, and numerous others. Printers incluce L'Imprimerie Chaix, Georges Petit Gallery (supplied, of Paris), T. Fillon/LeMercier & Cie (Paris), Richard Paulussen (Vienna), James Craig Annan (Glasgow), Paul Dujardin (Paris), J. Blechinger (Austria).t69 of the photographers accepted for this first exposition were from France but the material included was highly international. There were 30 photographers from Great Britain including Scotland and the Isle of Wight; Austria had 17 followed by Belgium and Holland with ten. Nine were from America: including Emilie Clarkson, John Bullock, John Dumont, Rudolph Eickemeyer, Emma Farnsworth, Clarence Moore, William Post, Robert Redfield and Alfred Stieglitz. Works from Germany, Italy, Spain, Russia and Switzerland were hung. Algeria was represented by at least one photograph by the Frenchman Emile Frechon. The work of the deceased, but influential, British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) was acknowledged by the exposition committee members and she had an unknown number of works accepted for hanging.OCLC number 889431269; Met Watsonline record number b12671320. .

Single Sheet. Condition: Collectible-Fine. Emma J. Farnsworth (illustrator). First Edition. The image is 6 1/4" by 4 7/8" printed on a sheet that is 10 3/4" by 8 1/2". In Alfred Stieglitz's Camera Notes, Christian Peterson said this about Farnsworth, "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." 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." The photogravure is in superb condition. Size: 6 1/4" by 4 7/8". Photo.