Henry Holmes Smith

Bill Jay, n.d., Henry Holmes Smith, [Photographers], Gelatin silver print, Provided by the artist - Bill Jay, LL/10176

Henry Holmes Smith

Born: 1909, 23 October
Died: 1986, March
Gender: Male
Active: US
 
American photographer, influential teacher and writer. He made what he termed "refraction drawings" that used a plate of glass on which he drew with dark and light Karo syrup. The syrup ran when he raised the glass to the vertical and then a bulb of light was switched on which refracted the light through the corn syrup and glass onto photographic paper which was developed. One of his portfolios of refraction drawings was printed by photographer Alex Traube (1972-1973).

Genealogy of Henry Holmes Smith

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