Pipes of Pan, from the journal Camera Work
Clarence Hudson White, Pipes of Pan, from the journal Camera Work, 1908, photogravure, Gift of Mr. John H. Wood, public domain, 87.86.22
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- Title
Pipes of Pan, from the journal Camera Work
- Related Titles
journal: Camera Work
original language: Pipes of Pan
- Artist
- Date
1908
- Medium
photogravure
- Dimensions (H x W x D)
image: 7 3/4 in x 5 7/8 in; sheet: 7 7/8 in x 6 1/16 in
- Collection Area
Photography
- Category
Photographs
- Object Type
photograph
- Culture
American
- Credit Line
Gift of Mr. John H. Wood
- Accession Number
87.86.22
- Copyright
public domain
- Terms
Although entirely self-taught as an artist, Clarence Hudson White became a leading photographer and influential teacher in the first part of the twentieth century. He was a founding member of the Photo-Secession, a group of artists including Alfred Stieglitz and F. Holland Day that advocated for photography as a fine art. Members of the Photo-Seccession worked in a style known as Pictorialism, which emphasized the role of the photographer in creating and manipulating the photographic image—rather than advancing the image as pure objective reportage.
In these photographs, reproduced as photogravures in the leading photography journal Camera Work, White posed his sons, Maynard and Lewis, to evoke mythological subjects in keeping with the often literary or sentimental nature of Pictorial photography.
- Exhibitions
2012 Mythologia: Gods, Heroes, and Monsters Portland Art Museum