Summary
Emily H. Pitchford (1878–1956) was an American photographer.
Emily H. Pitchford was born in 1878 in Gold Hill, Nevada.[1] She attended the Mark Hopkins Institute of Art, now called the San Francisco Art Institute, in the 1890s.[1][2]
Pitchford won a bronze medal at the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition in 1909.[3]
She had a studio with Adelaide Hanscom Leeson in the early 20th century and shared one with Laura Adams Armer in Berkeley, California, as of 1902.[4] As of 1906, she had her own studio in Berkeley.[2] Historian Shelley Rideout describes Pitchford, Leeson, and Armer as pictorialists.[2]
Pitchford married William Leo Hussey, a mining engineer, on June 10, 1911, in Johannesburg.[5][6] They remained in South Africa until 1921 and then came back to Berkeley.[1] She died in Berkeley in 1956.[6]
Notes edit
- ^ a b c Johnson 2001, p. 347.
- ^ a b c Rideout, Shelley (2009). Berkeley Bohemia. Gibbs Smith. ISBN 978-1-4236-0905-6.
- ^ Watkins to Weston: 101 Years of California Photography, 1849–1950. Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Roberts Rinehart. 1992. p. 182. ISBN 0-89951-085-X. OCLC 24539799.
- ^ Johnson 2001, pp. 68, 347.
- ^ Tantalus (July 8, 1911). "An Unusual Honeymoon". Town Talk: The Pacific Weekly. 19 (985). San Francisco: 17.
- ^ a b Rosenblum, Naomi (1994). A History of Women Photographers. Abbeville Publishing Group. p. 318. ISBN 1-55859-761-1. OCLC 29909207.
Sources edit
- Johnson, Drew Heath, ed. (2001). Capturing Light: Masterpieces of California Photography, 1850 to the Present. Oakland Museum of California; W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-04993-0. OCLC 44446663.