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Five years of renovations in the city between 1899 and the World's Fair in 1904 put the Gerhard Sisters in the heart of a new St. Louis at the height of the Progressive political era. [1] They developed new and original ideas and methods which, as they have applied to portrait photography, gave a value and beauty of execution equal to painted ...
Julius Caesar Strauss (July 1857 - 1924), known professionally as J. C. Strauss, [1] was an American photographer who was active in St. Louis, Missouri, at the turn of the 20th century. Born in Cleveland, Ohio , the son of a poor Bavarian -born tailor, he left home and sneaked into St. Louis in 1876 and opened a photography studio in 1879. [ 2 ]
Walker Evans (November 3, 1903 – April 10, 1975) was an American photographer and photojournalist best known for his work for the Resettlement Administration and the Farm Security Administration (FSA) documenting the effects of the Great Depression.
Jessie Tarbox Beals (December 23, 1870 – May 30, 1942) was an American photographer, the first published female photojournalist in the United States and the first female night photographer. She is best known for her freelance news photographs, particularly of the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, and portraits of places such as Bohemian Greenwich ...
Takuma Kajiwara (seated) and Frederick Oakes Sylvester in Elsah, Illinois. Takuma Kajiwara (梶原 琢磨, Kajiwara Takuma, November 15, 1876 – March 11, 1960) was a Japanese-born [1] American artist who was called "one of the seven greatest photographers in the United States".
Vandivert was born in Evanston, Illinois. He studied chemistry from 1928 to 1930 at Beloit College in Wisconsin, and then photography at the Art Institute of Chicago from 1930 to 1935. From 1935, he became a photographer for the Chicago Herald Examiner. [1]
After the War, Berg worked for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch New York bureau from 1952-1972, when the newspaper closed the office and recalled him to St. Louis. [7] Commentary on his newspaper work appeared frequently in Popular Photography magazine, used as an example of a creative approach to reportage and documentary work.
The history of St. Louis, Missouri, from 1905 to 1980 saw declines in population and economic basis, particularly after World War II.Although St. Louis made civic improvements in the 1920s and enacted pollution controls in the 1930s, suburban growth accelerated and the city population fell dramatically from the 1950s to the 1980s.