Peter Anton Juley

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Peter Anton Juley (born January 30, 1862 in Alf ; † January 13, 1937 in New York City ) was a German postal assistant (telegraph operator), American art photographer and the official photographer of Theodore Roosevelt during his tenure.

Life

Peter Anton was born in 1862 as the son of the married couple Peter July - the father died shortly after the wedding in 1861 - and Anna Maria geb. Endries was born in Alf on the Moselle. After completing his school education, he got a job as a postal assistant, which he gave up again in 1885 to emigrate to the United States of America . Upon immigration, he was advised to change his surname from July to Juley, which he willingly allowed. His wife Agnes (1859–1925), who also came from Germany and emigrated to America in 1886, had married Juley in 1887. The first of 3 children together was their son Joseph P., born in New York in 1888, followed by Paul P. in 1890 and their daughter Ottilie in 1891. It is not known how he earned a living for his family in the first few years, but in 1896 it was obviously enough that he was able to use the money he saved in Cold Spring on the Hudson River to set up a hairdresser with an attached photo studio.

His first known activity as a photographer was a contract between him and the weekly newspaper Harper's Weekly , starting in 1901 , for which he took photographs at horse races , local festivities, such as B. public receptions, the funeral of US President McKinley on September 19, 1901 and the opening of the New York City Subway on October 27, 1904. When the new incumbent US President Theodore Roosevelt became aware of Juley, he made him his official photographer in order to be accompanied by him on his travels and election campaign appointments.

In 1907 Juley moved to New York City to open a new photo studio, in 1908 he made his son Paul P. Juley a partner and both began to specialize in portraying artists and reproducing their photographs. For this purpose, they developed a large recording camera in order to be able to achieve a better quality of the photos. They soon became members of the Salmagundi Club of Fine Arts in Greenwich Village (in Manhattan ), as well as the New York Artists' Club (National Arts Club) to serve the artists of the time.

During the years of looking after the numerous artists such as For example, during their travels or visits to artist colonies such as California and Mexico , the Juleys soon gained a great reputation, and were sometimes even portrayed by painters themselves. Another reason for their success was certainly the fact that there were very few other art photographers who were able to take photographs of the artists that also met the demands of their clients. This was probably one of the main reasons why the Juleys were booked by the vast majority of artists of their time, as well as by museums, galleries, art dealers and private collectors. After Juley's death in 1937, his son Paul Juley took over the sole running of the business and set up a new studio across from Carnegie Hall , where many other artists had their own studios. In the 80-year period of activity, the company Peter A. Juley & Son photographed an estimated 11,000 artists in around 127,000 black-and-white photographs, making them one of the most important art photographers of an entire epoch of American art history. When Paul Juley also retired, he offered the entire collection of photographs to the Smithsonian American Art Museum in Washington in 1975, where it has been since then.

literature

  • Alfons Friderichs (Ed.): Juley, Peter Anton . In: Personalities of the Cochem-Zell district, Kliomedia, Trier 2004, ISBN 3-89890-084-3 , p. 168.
  • Jens Kallfelz: An Alfler in New York, Peter Anton Juley. In: Heimatjahrbuch Kreis Cochem-Zell. 1990, pp. 105-107.

Web links

Commons : Peter A. Juley & Son collection  - collection of images

Individual evidence

  1. ^ A Finding Aid to the Peter A. Juley & Son collection in Smithsonian Institution Washington, DC (English). Retrieved January 6, 2019.
  2. ^ Gregor Brand: Children of the Eifel - from another time II . Ed .: Hermann Simon. BoD - Books on Demand, Norderstedt 2018, ISBN 978-3-7528-3084-2 , pp. 207 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
  3. ↑ Photo by Paul P. Juley (1890–1975) , accessed January 6, 2019.
  4. ↑ Salmagundi Club a Center for American Art since 1871 , accessed January 9, 2019.
  5. ^ National Arts Club , accessed January 9, 2019.
  6. ↑ Peter Juley dead. In: The New York Times. 1937. Retrieved January 5, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Juley, Peter Anton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German postal assistant (telegraph operator), American art photographer and official photographer of Theodore Roosevelt during his tenure
DATE OF BIRTH January 30, 1862
PLACE OF BIRTH Alf
DATE OF DEATH January 13, 1937
Place of death New York City