Henry Holmes Smith

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Henry Holmes Smith (born October 23, 1909 in Bloomington , Illinois, † March 1986 ) was an American photographer and university lecturer. He is considered one of the pioneers of abstract, cameraless photography and glass cliché printing .

Life

Henry Holmes Smith studied from 1927 to 1932 at Illinois State University and 1932/1933 at Ohio State University . From 1933 he worked as a freelance photographer and caricaturist. In 1937 he began teaching at the Art Institute of Chicago at the invitation of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy . His style was influenced there by the Bauhaus . During World War II, he served in the Second Air Service Support Squadron , which was deployed in the Pacific.

From 1947 he worked as an instructor for photography at Indiana University , from 1965 to 1977 as a lecturer. His students include Jerry Uelsmann , Jack Welpott , Robert W. Fichter and Betty Hahn.

His works can be found in the Bauhaus-Archiv Berlin, the Bibliothèque nationale de France Paris, the Library of Congress Washington, the Metropolitan Museum of Art New York, the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the National Museum of Modern Art Kyoto .

literature

  • Henry Holmes Smith: Collected Writings. 1935-1979. University of Arizona, Center for Creative Photography, 1985. ISBN 0-938262-08-4 .
  • Howard Bossen: Henry Holmes Smith: Man of Light. UMI Research Press, 1984. ISBN 0-8357-1459-4 .

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personal data
SURNAME Smith, Henry Holmes
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photographer
DATE OF BIRTH October 23, 1909
PLACE OF BIRTH Bloomington , Illinois
DATE OF DEATH March 1986