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Southworth & Hawes was an early photographic firm in Boston, 1843–1863. Its partners, Albert Sands Southworth (1811–1894) and Josiah Johnson Hawes (1808–1901), have been hailed as the first great American masters of photography, whose work elevated photographic portraits to the level of fine art.
Josiah J. Hawes, c. 1850-1855 Advertisement for J.J. Hawes, Boston, 1868. Josiah Johnson Hawes (1808–1901) was a photographer in Boston, Massachusetts.He and Albert Southworth established the photography studio of Southworth & Hawes, which produced numerous portraits of exceptional quality in the 1840s–1860s.
Southworth was a student of Samuel F.B. Morse, who, in addition to his other more famous pursuits, was an avid daguerreotypist.The partnership's studio, located on the top floor of a Boston building, had enormous skylights to allow in copious amounts of light necessary for relatively "short" exposures of portraits of their subjects.
The National Photographic Association of the United States (1868–1880) formed "for the purpose of elevating and advancing the art of photography, and for the protection and furthering the interests of those who make their living by it." [1] In particular, the group organized initially to prevent "the reissue of the ... ambrotype patent." [2]
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Southworth is a surname. Notable people with the surname include: Albert Southworth (1811–1894), co-proprietor of Southworth & Hawes studio; Azariah Southworth (born 1987), American music producer and broadcaster; Benjamin Southworth (1878–1924) American football player, physician and surgeon. Bill Southworth (born 1946), American baseball ...
Texas photographer Victoria Caroline Haltom took to Facebook on Monday to share a story about a woman she once photographed for a sexy boudoir shoot. The woman came to her in hopes of taking some ...
Southworth is an unincorporated community in Allen County, in the U.S. state of Ohio. [1] History. A post office called Southworth was established in 1879, ...