Description: Beautiful study "Design in Nature" 1914 by Edward R Dickson 1880-1922. From a vintage copy of Photograms of the Year 1914 the annual publication of the London Salon of Photography. Dickson was closely associated with Clarence H. White and the Pictorial Photographers of America in the 1910s and early 1920s. Deeply devoted to pictorialism, he edited a small magazine on the subject and published a book of his own ethereal images, illustrating poems by others. Edward R. Dickson was born in Quito, Ecuador, and educated in London. In 1903, he came to the United States and began working for what would become the Otis Elevator Company. He retired from business in 1917, in his late thirties, to devote himself full-time to photography. Dickson was photographing by the early 1910s, when his work was included in group exhibitions organized by Clarence H. White that helped identify a new generation of pictorialists. He studied with White early on and was honored with a one-person exhibition at the Boston Camera Club in 1920. He consistently made pictures that were carefully patterned and low in contrast, revealing the influence of White and Japonisme. With an eye sensitive to monochrome design, he usually photographed shadows, trees, and water. Dickson was prominent in the early years of the Pictorial Photographers of America (PPA), of which he was a founding member. He served as the group’s first recording secretary, from 1916 to 1920. The PPA’s first annual included both a reproduction of one of his pictures and a lead article he wrote about the organization’s mission and responsibilities. In 1920, he was named honorary vice-president. In 1919, Dickson was commissioned by the arts council of Newark, New Jersey (where he lived), to make a set of artistic photographs of the city’s public buildings. He died three years later on March 5, 1922, at the age of only forty-two. All items are delivered in archival sleeves and hard backed envelopes. Happy to combine postage.
Price: 6.5 GBP
Location: london, London
End Time: 2025-01-26T13:39:28.000Z
Shipping Cost: 10.01 GBP
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Item Specifics
Returns Accepted: ReturnsNotAccepted
Antique: Yes
Singles/ Sets: Single
Image Orientation: Portrait
Signed: No
Colour: Black & White
Vintage: Yes
Type: Photograph
Year of Production: 1914
Date of creation: 1910s
Image Colour: Black & White
Theme: Nature
Time Period Manufactured: 1900-1924
Country/Region of Manufacture: Unknown
Finish: Matte
