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George Kendall Warren His body of northeastern landscape photography is the largest and perhaps the most important of the late 1850s and 1860s. No other early photographer working with a large format camera has painted the eastern landscape like Warren. He had a sharp eye for composition and developed some compositional styles new to American painting and photography. He favored early morning or late afternoon winter light which emphasized the light and shadows of trees. Many compositions include a bold central form leading away from the camera, like a path, road, tree or lamppost. He may have been aware of the luminist and Hudson River painters of his day. His view of East Rock, New Haven, Connecticut, is from an almost identical perspective as Frederick Church's famous painting of the same subject. Warren's body of work is also unusual for including portraits of workers in working clothes. Photographs of African Americans and workers from this period are rare in early American photographs. Warren's portraiture was also well respected. Most of the country's best schools hired him year after because of the strength of his portraits. His studio also attracted President Franklin Pierce and most of the prominent actors, actresses, Civil War Generals and assorted celebrities that lived in Boston or visited. Warren died in an accident with a train in Medford, Ma. 1884. References 2000 Acquisitions: The Hallmark Art Collection, The Hallmark Photographic Collection Keith F. Davis. 2000. Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, Missouri. Addison Gallery of American Art: 65 Years Susan Faxon. 1996. Addison Gallery, Andover. The American Daguerreotype Floyd Rinhart, Marion Rinhart. 1981. The University of Georgia Press. American Photographs: The First Century Merry A. Foresta. 1997. Smithsonian Institution Press. Citizens In Conflict: Prints and Photographs of the American Civil War Sally Pierce, Temple D. Smith. 1981. The Boston Athenaeum. Common Ground: Discovering Community in 150 Years of Art Judy Norrell. 2004. Merrell, New York. Craig's Daguerreian Registry: Volume 1, The Overview John S. Craig. 1994. John S. Craig. Craig's Daguerreian Registry: Volume 3, Pioneers and Progress--MacDonald to Zuky John S. Craig. 1996. John S. Craig. A Curious and Ingenious Art: Reflections on Daguerreotypes at Harvard Melissa Banta. 2000. Harvard University Press & University of Iowa Press. History of Photography Spring 2000 Mike Weaver, Anne Hammond. 2000. Taylor & Francis, London. Photography in America: The Formative Years 1839-1900, A Documentary History William Welling. . Thomas Y. Crowell Company. Photography and the American Scene Robert Taft. 1942. The MacMillan Company. Photography in Nineteenth-Century America Martha A. Sandweiss, essays by Alan Trachtenberg, Barbara McCandless, Keith F. Davis, Peter Bacon Hales, Sarah Greenough. 1991. Harry N. Abrams, Inc. [Contributed by Lee Gallery]
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