Names: | | Dates: | 1857 - 1926 | Active: | US |
Stereographs project Business locations Salt Lake City, UT, US [8-1] [Charles Ellis Johnson; also worked in
partnership with Hiram Sainsbury in Salt Lake
City, 80s-90s] "Publisher"; "You See Johnson All
Over the World", "Manfr's of Photo Views,
Lantern Slides, View Books, Stereoscopic Views,
Etc."; "C.E. Johnson, Supt.". "...'s
Stereoscopic Views"; "Utah Stereo. Views &
Lantern Slides"; "Beautiful California
Illustrated, stereo views and lantern Slides",
thought to have pub. a group of San Francisco
earthquake views in 06. Views scarce; difficult
to estimate total output but prob. several
hundred stereos. He was an active photographer
and worked extensively in UT, but bulk of output
was in non-stereo formats. Coverage
wide-ranging geographically including many
off-beat areas such as Greenland Eskimos, Cuban
peasants, etc.; source of these images unknown.
Made many flat studio images of stage
performers; photographed for a year in Palestine
sponsored by lecturer Lydia Mountford. Issued
variety of genre and comics, many quite original
in treatment, and a rare semi-nude series. Some
of these were originally made by the Climax View
Co. of New York City, but most were likely by
him since he also made nude studies in flat
formats. Came to Salt Lake City 82, first in
drug business, set up studio prob. in late 80s
in partnership with Sainsbury who had worked as
a darkroom assistant for C.R. Savage. Liquidated studio 1917. B. 3/21/57, St. Louis,
MO; D. 2/21/26, San Jose, CA. Listed in Salt
Lake City 60-00. T.K. Treadwell & William C. Darrah (Compiled by), Wolfgang, Sell (Updated by), 11/28/2003, Photographers of the United States of America, (National Stereoscopic Association)
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