Albert Sands Southworth

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Albert Sands Southworth (ca.1845–1850)

Albert Sands Southworth (born March 12, 1811 in West Fairlee , Orange County , Vermont , † March 3, 1894 in Charlestown , Massachusetts ) was an American photography pioneer . He and his partner Josiah Johnson Hawes are considered the most important American portrait photographers of the 19th century.

Life

Albert Southworth (around 1848)

Albert Southworth, born in 1811 in the small town of West Fairlee in Orange County, Vermont, attended Phillips Academy in Andover (Massachusetts) near Boston and then settled in Cabotville (now Chicopee). In 1839 his former classmate Joseph Pennel introduced him to the daguerreotype . At the age of twenty-eight he went to New York and learned the daguerreotype process from Samuel Morse . In May 1840, Southworth and Pennel became partners. In spring 1841 they moved from Cabotville to Boston and ran their photo studio first in Scollay Square and from 1843 on Tremont Row. In the same year Pennel ended the partnership and Josiah Johnson Hawes (1808-1901) was his successor.

From 1849 to 1851, Southworth went to California drawn to the gold rush . In 1863 he separated from his partner Josiah J. Hawes after twenty years. He continued to work as a photographer and dealt with graphology .

Southworth & Hawes

Southworth and Hawes used the daguerreotype as an art form; a claim that was expressed both in the recordings and in the pricing. The daguerreotypes were colored by Hawes and his wife Nancy. The clientele of the studio at Tremont Row 51 was primarily the elegant and wealthy middle class of Boston. Well-known people portrayed by Southworth & Hawes include Robert Browning , John Quincy Adams , Lajos Kossuth , Henry Wadsworth Longfellow , Lola Montez and Ralph Waldo Emerson .

Southworth and Hawes saw the stereoscopy the beginning of a new era in photography and subsequently developed the Grand Parlor and Gallery stereoscope . They received a patent for it, but only three devices were built.

One of the most famous shots by Southworth & Hawes shows the recreated scene of the first public operation in which a patient was anesthetized with ether - the birth of modern anesthesia . The operation took place on October 16, 1846, and the photo was taken a few days later.

  • Advertisement by Southworth & Hawes in the Boston Directory (1848)

  • (1849)

  • (1852)

  • Advertisement by Albert S. Southworth in the Boston Directory (1868)

literature

  • Therese Mulligan and David Wooters: The George Eastman House Collection, History of Photography . Taschen, Cologne 2005, ISBN 978-3-8228-4775-6 .

Web links

Commons : Southworth & Hawes  - collection of images, videos and audio files
Commons : Albert Southworth  - Collection of Images, Videos and Audio Files
  • Young America. The Daguerrotypes of Southworth & Hawes. museum.icp.org ( Memento of October 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) (Eng.) Retrieved October 31, 2011
  • Southworth & Hawes in the Metropolitan Museum of Art , New York. www.metmuseum.org Retrieved October 31, 2011
  • Southworth & Hawes at the Museum of Fine Arts , Boston. www.mfa.org Retrieved October 31, 2011
  • George Eastman House Collection www.flickr.com Retrieved October 31, 2011

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Albert Sands Southworth in The Grove Encyclopedia of American Art, Volume 1, by Joan Marter
  2. ↑ Therese Mulligan and David Wooters: The George Eastman House Collection . 2005, p. 78 .
  3. ↑ Therese Mulligan and David Wooters: The George Eastman House Collection . 2005, p. 82 .
  4. ↑ The price for a recording was between 15 and 50 dollars, depending on the size of the record.
  5. ↑ Therese Mulligan and David Wooters: The George Eastman House Collection . 2005, p. 86 .
personal data
SURNAME Southworth, Albert Sands
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photography pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH March 12, 1811
PLACE OF BIRTH West Fairlee , Vermont
DATE OF DEATH March 3, 1894
Place of death Charlestown , Massachusetts