Clarence Hudson White, photographed by Fred Holland Day

Clarence Hudson White (1871 - 1925) was an American photographer and a founding member of the Photo-Secession movement. During his lifetime he was widely recognized as a master of the art form for his consummate sentimental, pictorial portraits and for his excellence as a teacher of photography. Toward the end of his career he founded the Clarence H. White School of Photography, which produced many of the best-known photographers of the Twentieth Century including Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange, and Paul Outerbridge. Fred Holland Day (July 8, 1864 - November 12, 1933) was a noted photographer and publisher. ... 1871 (MDCCCLXXI) was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... 1925 (MCMXXV) was a common year starting on Thursday (link will take you to calendar). ... This is a list of notable photographers in the art, documentary and fashion traditions. ... Pictorialism was a photographic movement in vogue from around 1885 following the widespread introduction of the dry-plate process, and reached its height in the early years of the 20th century and declined rapidly after 1914. ... Cameron Frost is a good photographer! Photography is the process of making pictures by means of capturing light on a film. ... (19th century - 20th century - 21st century - more centuries) Decades: 1900s 1910s 1920s 1930s 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s The 20th century lasted from 1901 to 2000 in the Gregorian calendar (often from (1900 to 1999 in common usage). ... Self portrait of Margaret Bourke-White Margaret Bourke-White (June 14, 1904 – August 27, 1971) was an American photographer and photo journalist. ... Dorothea Lange in 1936; photographer: Paul S. Taylor This photograph, known as Migrant Mother, is probably Dorothea Langes most famous. ... Paul Outerbridges self portrait. ...

Early life

White's 1899 photo, Ring Toss

White was born in 1871 in West Carlisle, Ohio. He moved with his family to Newark, Ohio when he was sixteen. He was avid amateur young artist, and filled sketchbooks with his drawings and paintings before taking up photography in his late teens or early twenties. His father was a salesman for Fleek and Neal, a wholesale grocery, and after high school White joined the same firm as an accountant.^[1] In 1893 White married Jane Felix, who became White's business manager, critic, and inspiration.^[2] Newark is a city located in Licking County, Ohio, 33 miles (53 km) east of Columbus, at the junction of the forks of the Licking River. ... Look up amateur in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. ... Accountant, or Qualified Accountant, or Professional Accountant, or Accountancy Practitioner, is an accountancy and financial experts legally certified in different jurisdictions to originally worked only in public practices, selling advice and services to other individuals and businesses, but today in addition many work within private corporations, financial industry and government...

White produced many of his most famous images between 1893 and 1906, while he was still in Ohio, despite holding a full-time job unrelated to photography and only being able to afford two plates a week. Most of his photographs from this period depicted relatives and friends, carefully posed in their homes. He enjoyed collaborating with other photographers and seeing their work, and in 1898 White founded the Newark Camera Club, an association for the town's enthusiasts, prefiguring his role as a teacher and mentor.^[3] Photographic plates were one of the earliest forms of photographic film, in which a light-sensitive emulsion of silver salts was applied to a glass plate. ...

Photography career

While in Newark, White's photographs gradually became nationally recognized, first winning a gold medal from the Ohio Photographer's Association in 1896 and then participating in the Philadelphia Photographic Salon exhibition in 1898. That year, on a trip east, White met Alfred Stieglitz, photography's most prominent figure of the time, who praised his work. Stieglitz, White, and several other pictorial photographers co-founded the Photo-Secession, an elite group dedicated to furthering photography as an art form.^[3] Art exhibitions are traditionally the space in which art objects (in the most general sense) meet an audience, a temporary presentation of art. ... Alfred Stieglitz (January 1, 1864 – July 13, 1946) was an American-born photographer who was instrumental over his fifty-year career in making photography an acceptable art form alongside painting and sculpture. ... This article or section is not written in the formal tone expected of an encyclopedia article. ...

As White's artistic renown spread, it became increasingly difficult for him to balance his amateur photography with his accounting career. In 1906 he decided to quit his job, move to New York City, and devote his full attention to photography. Stieglitz included White's photos in exhibitions at his Photo-Secession gallery and published them in his highly acclaimed magazine, Camera Work. Stieglitz devoted an entire issue of Camera Work to White's photography and the two men were jointly credited on several images, most notably The Torso.^[4] Nickname: Big Apple, Gotham, NYC Location in the state of New York Coordinates: Country United States State New York Boroughs The Bronx Brooklyn Manhattan Queens Staten Island Settled 1613  - Mayor Michael Bloomberg (R) Area    - City 1,214. ... The Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession (later known as 291) was a tiny fine art photography gallery in New York City created and run by Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen from November 1905 to 1917. ...

Clarence Hudson White, photographed by Doris Ulmann

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Teaching

In 1907, Arthur Wesley Dow hired White to teach photography at Columbia University. He quickly became a renowned instructor, encouraging and inspiring his students rather than formally expounding on technical or aesthetic principles of photography. Although White's teaching never provided him with a significant amount of money, it enabled him to work as a full-time photographer and he deeply loved to teach.^[2] In 1914, he founded the Clarence H. White School of Modern Photography.^[5] White taught many students who went on to become notable photographers, including Margaret Bourke-White, Anne Brigman, Dorothea Lange, Paul Outerbridge, Karl Struss, and Doris Ulmann.^[6] ... Columbia University is a private research university whose main campus lies in the Morningside Heights neighborhood of the Borough of Manhattan in New York City. ... Aesthetics (or esthetics) (from the Greek word αισθητική) is a branch of philosophy dealing with the nature of beauty. ... Self portrait of Margaret Bourke-White Margaret Bourke-White (June 14, 1904 – August 27, 1971) was an American photographer and photo journalist. ... Soul of the Blasted Pine, a self-portrait of Anne Brigman taken in 1908. ... Dorothea Lange in 1936; photographer: Paul S. Taylor This photograph, known as Migrant Mother, is probably Dorothea Langes most famous. ... Paul Outerbridges self portrait. ... Karl Struss (November 30, 1886—December 16, 1981) was a photographer and an Academy Award-winning cinematographer of the 1920s through the 1950s. ... Doris Ulmann (1884-1934) was an American photographer. ...

Split with Stieglitz

White, Stieglitz, and the other Photo-Secessionists initially imitated traditional fine arts in order to elevate photography to high art. Referred to as pictorialists, they used camera and printing techniques to emulate etchings and achieve soft focus. However, in 1910 Stieglitz renounced pictorialism in favor of sharply focused "straight" photographs, emphasizing the camera's optical clarity and precision.^[5] White did not follow Stieglitz's initiative, and after their separation White emerged as the leader of pictorialist photography. In 1916 White co-founded the Pictorial Photographers of America (PPA), a national organization dedicated to promoting pictorial photography.^[7] Like the Photo-Secession, the PPA sponsored exhibitions and published a journal.^[8] But unlike the Photo-Secession, the PPA consciously refrained from exclusivity and advocated using pictorial photography as a medium for art education. White served as the association's first president until 1921.^[7] Fine art is a term used to refer to fields traditionally considered to be artistic. ... Pictorialism was a photographic movement in vogue from around 1885 following the widespread introduction of the dry-plate process, and reached its height in the early years of the 20th century and declined rapidly after 1914. ... Straight photography refers to photography that attempts to depict a scene as realistically and objectively as permitted by the medium, forsaking the use of manipulation both pre-exposure (e. ...

Photographic style

White's photographs are black-and-white, romanticized, pictorialist images. Women and children were favorite subjects, and White was praised for capturing the character of his models. In a rare interview, White said, "I do not believe [a photographer] should go with a preconceived idea of what he is going to get. He should be moved by his subject. If he is not, he will become blind to the most beautiful aspects of nature."^[9] Black-and-white or black and white) can refer to a general term used in photography, film, and other media (see black-and-white). ... Pictorialism was a photographic movement in vogue from around 1885 following the widespread introduction of the dry-plate process, and reached its height in the early years of the 20th century and declined rapidly after 1914. ... Art modeling involves the posing of a model to as an aid in creating a work of art. ...

White composed his images carefully, often taking hours to pose models and frame the photograph. White also experimented with darkroom techniques including platinum and gum bichromate prints.^[6] During his lifetime, White's images were widely acclaimed as the pinnacle of the art form.^[10] Composition is the plan, placement or arrangement of the elements of art in a work. ... General Name, Symbol, Number platinum, Pt, 78 Chemical series transition metals Group, Period, Block 10, 6, d Appearance grayish white Atomic mass 195. ... // Gum Bichromate this technique was first introduced commerically in 1894. ...

Quotes about White

• "I think that if I were asked to name the most subtle and refined master photography has produced, that I would name him... To be a true artist in photography one must also be an artist in life, and Clarence H. White was such an artist." Alvin Langdon Coburn^[10]

• "What he brought to photography was an extraordinary sense of light. The Orchard is bathed in light. The Edge of the Woods is a tour de force of the absence of light." Beaumont Newhall ^[11]

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Gallery

The Torso (Miss Thompson), 1907	Bashful Child, 1899	Raindrops, 1903	Miss Grace, 1898
Portrait--Letitia Felix, 1897	The May Pole, 1899

References