Nancy Ford Cones
Nancy Ford Cones (* 1869 in Milan (Ohio) ; † 1962 in Loveland (Ohio) ) was an early American photographer from Loveland (Ohio), where she documented rural life.
biography
Cones was born the daughter of a doctor. When she was 25, her father sent her to a photography studio to learn how to retouch photographs. Then she began to take photos and edit them. Impressed with her work, her father bought her a studio in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania .
In 1900 she married James Cones, also a photographer, who helped her with her darkroom work and who often used the gum dichromate process . The couple first moved to Covington, Kentucky , where they ran a studio before moving to the Roads Inn Farm near Loveland, Ohio in 1905. That year, Cones won second place after Edward Steichen for the photo title "Threading the needle" in an Eastman Kodak competition that drew 28,000 entries. Her "Calling The Ferryman" was performed for the first time in 1907 at the Photo Era competition. Most of her photographs showed relatives and friends on the farm. Some of them also appeared in Country Life in America and Woman's Home Companion. In 1926, the couple spent a year in Mariemont , Ohio, where they were commissioned to photograph the new city.
Nancy Cone's interest in photography ceased after her husband's death in 1939. She stayed on the Loveland Family Farm, where she died in 1962.
Individual evidence
- ^ Women photographers: Robert Leggat's "A History of Photography". Retrieved November 20, 2019 .
- ^ A b Greater Loveland Historical Society Museum (GLHSM). September 29, 2013, accessed November 20, 2019 .
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Cones, Nancy Ford |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American photographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1869 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Milan (Ohio) |
| DATE OF DEATH | 1962 |
| Place of death | Loveland (Ohio) |