During his lifetime, Francis Orville Libby (born 1881, Portland, Maine; died 1961, South Portland, Maine) earned a national and international reputation as a master fine arts photographer.
As a teenager he had successfully exhibited his photographic work and went on to graduate from Princeton University in 1903 with a degree in fine arts. In the newly formed Portland Camera Club's 1900 salon, he received a commendation ribbon, an event noted in a local newspaper.
Fame, in the early days of art photography, was earned by displaying one's pictures in camera clubs' "salons" in the United States, Great Britain and Continental Europe. What was probably the capstone of his career was being invited to act as the jury for the 1922 London Salon, followed by being accepted as a Fellow in England's Royal Photographic Society, an honor few American photographers attained.
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