Rare lovely vintage study "Eileen" 1908 by Eva Watson-Schutze 1867-1935
This is plate 90 from a
vintage copy of "The Studio - Colour Photography and other Recent
Developments of the Art of the Camera" 1908 the British companion to
Camera Work, the American photo secessionist magazine published by Alfred
Stieglitz.
Eva Watson-Schutze
was a founder member of the Photo Secession, member of the Linked Ring,
writer and advocate of women’s photography. She was born in Jersey City
to Dr John Watson and Mary Lawrence. She studied art under Thomas
Eakins but moved into photography in the 1890’s when she shared a studio
with Amelia Van Buren, opening her own studio in 1897. In the same year
she wrote to photographer Frances Benjamin Johnston about her belief in
women’s future in photography: "There will be a new era, and women will
fly into photography”. She exhibited under the name Eva Lawrence Watson
and by 1899 was serving as a juror for the Philadelphia Photographic
Society. 1901 saw her work included in Frances B Johnston’s pioneering
exhibition American Women photographers in Paris. She married Professor
Martin Schütze, a German born and trained lawyer in 1901 and moved to
Chicago. In 1902 she suggested the idea of forming an association of
independent and like-minded photographers to he friend Alfred Stieglitz,
and by the end of the year she joined Stieglitz as one of the founding
members of the Photo-Secession. Despite initiating such an influential
organisation she turned away from photography to painting by 1910,
working in the Byrdcliffe Colony in the Catskill Mountains of New York.
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