Joseph Keiley
Joseph Turner Keiley (born July 26, 1869 in Maryland , † January 21, 1914 in New York ) was an American photographer of pictorialism , author and art critic. Keiley was a founding member of the Photo Secession and a close companion of Alfred Stieglitz . His photographs were exhibited around the world during his lifetime and, like his reviews and essays, they received international recognition.
life and work
Childhood and professional education
Joseph Keiley was born in Maryland as the eldest of seven children to John D. and Ellen Keiley. But he grew up in Brooklyn , where the family moved soon after he was born. Keiley became a lawyer and, as such, co-founded the law firm Keiley & Haviland.
Career as a photographer and author
In the mid-1890s, Keiley began taking photos and came into contact with the well-known photographer Gertrude Käsebier . Like this one, he photographed Native American performers on the Wild West Show Buffalo Bills . Nine of these portraits were exhibited at the Philadelphia Photographic Salon in 1898. One of the judges for the exhibition was Stieglitz, who published a very benevolent review of Keiley's recordings.
As a result of the successful exhibition in Philadelphia in 1899, Keiley was the fourth American ever to be accepted into the Brotherhood of the Linked Ring , the most important association of pictorialist photographers at the time .
In 1900, Keiley joined the Camera Club of New York. A solo exhibition in the club's gallery followed. At that time Stieglitz was Vice President of the Camera Club and editor of the Club Journal Camera Notes . Keiley quickly became Stieglitz's most important companion and one of the journal's most prolific authors. In addition to various photographs of his own, he contributed articles on aesthetic or technical issues as well as exhibition reviews.
Stieglitz and Keiley also carried out experiments with glycerine-developed platinum prints (platinum types). A platinum print that has already been developed in a conventional way is post-treated to change its image effect by applying a mixture of glycerine and developer in places . They published the test results in a joint article in the Camera Notes .
Both photographers became founding members of the Photo Secession in 1902 . Joseph Keiley was able to present 15 of his photographs at the first Secession exhibition at the National Arts Club.
When Stieglitz was preparing the publication of Camera Work magazine in 1903 , he asked Keiley to become co-editor. For the next eleven years, Keiley was the most important employee of Camera Work after Stieglitz ; he contributed numerous essays, technical articles or reviews. He also advised Stieglitz on which European photographers should be featured in the Camera Work . In 1903 one and in 1907 six photographs of Keiley appeared in the magazine.
In his later life, Keiley toured Europe and Mexico trying to elevate a friend to President of Mexico through a peaceful coup.
Joseph Keiley died in 1914. In his honor, Stieglitz published a long obituary in Camera Work ; his name remained in the imprint until the magazine was discontinued in 1917.
Individual evidence
- ^ A b Weston Naef: The Collection of Alfred Stieglitz: Fifty Pioneers of Modern Photography . Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 1978, pp. 394-395.
- ^ Christian A. Peterson: Alfred Stieglitz's Camera Notes . Norton, New York, 1993, pp. 45-46,169.
- ^ Marianne Fulton-Margolis: Alfred Stieglitz. Camera work. A pictorial guide. With Reproductions of all 559 Illustrations & Plates. Fully indexed. Dover Publications, New York 1978, ISBN 0-486-23591-2 , p. XVI
- ^ William Innes Homer : Stieglitz and the Photo-Secession 1902 . Viking Studio, New York, 2002, p. 41.
- ^ Sue Davidson Lowe: Stieglitz: A Memoir / Biography . Farrar Strauss Giroux, New York, 1983, p. 120.
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Keiley, Joseph |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Keiley, Joseph Turner (full name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American photographer, writer, and art critic |
| DATE OF BIRTH | July 26, 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Maryland |
| DATE OF DEATH | January 21, 1914 |
| Place of death | new York |