White Mountains, New Hampshire
Artist
Franklin White
(American, 1813 - 1870)
Date1859
MediumSalt print
DimensionsImage: 6 7/8 x 5 5/8 inches (17.46 x 14.29 cm)
Framed: 19 1/4 x 16 1/4 inches (48.9 x 41.28 cm)
Framed: 19 1/4 x 16 1/4 inches (48.9 x 41.28 cm)
Credit LineGift of the Hall Family Foundation
Object number2005.37.33
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Franklin White was working with the new paper process as early as 1854. A resident of Lancaster, New Hampshire, White made a pioneering group of landscape photographs of the nearby White Mountains. Produced under challenging conditions, White's images have a stark, modern directness. These were published in album form in 1859-1860, but today are very rare.
Merry A. Foresta, American Photographs: The First Century, From the Iasscs Collection in the National Museum of American Art (Washington, D.C.: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1996): 165; "Personal and Fine Art Intelligence," Photographic and Fine Art Journal 7:11 (November 1854): 351.
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