The world of Francis Cooper : nineteenth-century Pennsylvania photographer / Jay Ruby.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ruby, Jay.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cooper, Francis, 1874-1944.

Cooper, Francis.

Photographers--Pennsylvania--Biography.

Photographers.

Photography.

History.

Landscape photography.

Pennsylvania.

United States.

Physicians--Pennsylvania--Biography.

Physicians.

United States--Social life and customs--19th century.

Manners and customs.

Landscape photography--Pennsylvania--History--19th century.

Photography--United States--History--19th century.

Genre:

Biographies.

Physical Description:

viii, 266 pages : illustrations, maps ; 29 cm

Place of Publication:

University Park : Pennsylvania State University Press, [1999]

Summary:

A biography designed to increase awareness of the breadth and complexity of photography's history.

The World of Francis Cooper is a biographical exploration of Francis Cooper, who practiced photography as an aesthetic recreation while a medical student at the University of Pennsylvania. It offers an unusual perspective on turn-of-the century American photography by examining the work of an unknown avocational photographer.

Cooper was a native Philadelphian of sufficient means to indulge in several recreations: competitive shooting, bicycling, and photography. From 1896 to 1901 he traveled to the Pennsylvania countryside to hunt, fish, bicycle, court his wife, and photograph landscapes, genre farm scenes, and the spoils of his hunts. In the city he took snapshots of his family, and of his friends and colleagues, as well as candids and genre studies of the romance of city life. Largely confined to this five-year period, his work in photography ranged over several photographic practices from landscapes clearly attributable to the naturalistic school to pictorialist cityscapes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [255]-259) and index.

ISBN:

0271017627

OCLC:

38890770