Josiah Johnson Hawes

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Josiah Johnson Hawes (ca.1845–1850)

Josiah Johnson Hawes (born February 20, 1808 in East Sudbury (now Wayland), Massachusetts , USA ; † August 7, 1901 in Crawford Notch , New Hampshire , USA) was an American photography pioneer . He and his partner Albert Sands Southworth are considered the most important American portrait photographers of the 19th century.

Life

Josiah Hawes was a portrait painter before he learned the daguerreotype process from François Fauvel Gouraud, a student of Louis Daguerre who gave a series of lectures in Boston in 1840. In 1843 Hawes founded a photo studio with Albert Sands Southworth (1811-1894).

In 1849 he married Nancy Stiles Southworth, his partner's sister, with whom he had three children: Alice, Marion and Edward. While Albert Southworth went to California from 1849 to 1851 to seek his fortune as a prospector , Hawes ran the company together with his wife and their brother Asa Southworth. After Southworth broke the partnership in 1863, Hawes continued the studio and was active as a photographer well into old age.

Southworth & Hawes

The "Aether Day of Boston" (1846) in the operating theater later known as the " Aether Cathedral "

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.

  • Josiah J. Hawes with his daughter Marion (ca.1852)

  • Josiah J. Hawes, self-portrait (around 1895)

  • Albert Sands Southworth (ca.1845–1850)

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

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

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Therese Mulligan and David Wooters: The George Eastman House Collection . 2005, p. 78 .
  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 Hawes, Josiah Johnson
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American photography pioneer
DATE OF BIRTH February 20, 1808
PLACE OF BIRTH East Sudbury (now Wayland), Massachusetts , USA
DATE OF DEATH August 7, 1901
Place of death Crawford Notch , New Hampshire , USA