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Frances Benjamin Johnston's camera
- Title: Frances Benjamin Johnston's camera
- Related Names:
Rochester Optical Company , manufacturer - Date Created/Published: [between ca. 1892 and 1893]
- Medium:
1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color.
1 camera : wood frame with bellows ; 11 x 9 x 9 1/2. - Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-95255 (digital file from original)
- Rights Advisory:
Rights status of individual images not evaluated. For more information see: "Frances Benjamin Johnston Photograph Collection,"(https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/res.279.john)
- Call Number: LOT 15637 [item] (OH) [P&P]
- Repository: Library of Congress Prints and Photographs Division Washington, D.C. 20540 USA http://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/pp.print
- Notes:
- Caption label from exhibit "Collecting Memories": A Groundbreaking Photographer's Camera. With a multifaceted career that spanned the fields of portraiture, photojournalism, artistic, and architectural photography, Frances Benjamin Johnston was among the first American women to achieve prominence as a photographer. Johnston played an important role in promoting both the artistry and technique of photography to other women. Given the breadth of her creativity, it is no surprise that she would write in an 1897 article in the Ladies Home Journal, "no one lens nor camera will cover the entire field of photographic work." Among the many cameras that she used was this five-by-seven-inch Rochester Optical Company Universal Camera (missing its lens). With an ingenious compact folding design and long bellows, the wooden view camera was suitable for a wide range of work outside the studio.
- Title from exhibition spreadsheet.
- Frances Benjamin Johnston's camera, 5 x 7 inch Universal Camera, Rochester Optical Co., ca. 1892-93. From the photographic supplier Thos. H. McCollin & Company, Philadelphia.
- "Johnston played an important role in promoting both the artistry and technique of photography to other women. Given the breadth of her creativity, it is no surprise that she would write in an 1897 article in the Ladies Home Journal, “no one lens nor camera will cover the entire field of photographic work.” Among the many cameras that she used was this 5 x 7 inch Rochester Optical Company Universal Camera. With an ingenious compact folding design and long bellows, the wooden view camera was suitable for a wide range of work outside the studio."
- Caption from Remembrance book.
- Forms part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston Collection (Library of Congress).
- Exhibited: "Collecting Memories: Treasures from the Library of Congress" at the Library of Congress, Thomas Jefferson Building, NW Curtain, Treasure Gallery, Washington, D.C., June 2024 - December 2025.
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- Part of: Frances Benjamin Johnston photograph collection (Library of Congress)
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- Rights Advisory: Rights status of individual images not evaluated. For more information see: "Frances Benjamin Johnston Photograph Collection," https://hdl.loc.gov/loc.pnp/res.279.john
- Reproduction Number: LC-DIG-ppmsca-95255 (digital file from original)
- Call Number: LOT 15637 [item] (OH) [P&P]
- Medium:
1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color.
1 camera : wood frame with bellows ; 11 x 9 x 9 1/2.
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- Medium:
1 photograph : digital, tiff file, color.
1 camera : wood frame with bellows ; 11 x 9 x 9 1/2.
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