- Alice Boughton
Alice Boughton (
1865 -22 June 1943 ) was an American portrait photographer known for her photographs of many literary and theatrical figures of her time.Life
Alice Boughton was born in
Brooklyn ,New York in 1865. She studied art inParis ,France , before returning to New York tow work in photography. [cite web | url=http://books.google.fr/books?id=x_SBOkr3xycC&pg=PA514&lpg=PA514&dq=alice+boughton&source=web&ots=IerzD24meF&sig=Ul2qIjvVlJXaFgH7TFB1Wq-i-gE&hl=en | title= The Collected Letters of W.B. Yeats | accessdate=2008-06-10 ] A member of thePhoto-Secession movement, she was an assistant inGertrude Käsebier 's studio. She opened her own studioNew York in 1890; the studio remained open for almost 40 years. She also produced studies of children, particularly of her own two daughters, as well as female nudes in allegorical or natural settings. [cite web | url=http://www.npg.org.uk/live/search/person.asp?LinkID=mp07790&role=art | title= Alice Boughton (1865-1943) | accessdate=2008-06-10 ] Her portrait ofRobert Louis Stevenson was an inspiration forJohn Singer Sargent 's own portrait of the writer. [cite web | url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1026/is_5_166/ai_n7635290 | title= John Singer Sargent and Robert Louis Stevenson | accessdate=2008-06-10 ] Alice Boughton died on 22 June, 1943 inBrookhaven, New York .Work & Publications
A collection of her portraits, "Photographing the Famous", was published in 1928. Her work was also published in "Camera Work" in 1909. [cite web |url=http://www.vernacularphotography.com/Name%20Photographers/Boughton.htm|title= Vernacular Photography|accessdate=2008-06-10 ] Alice Boughton is also famous for her portrait of poet
William Butler Yeats .*citebook | last = Boughton | first = Alice | authorlink = | coauthors = | year = 1928 | title = Photographing the Famous | publisher = Avondale Press | location = New York | id =
*citebook | last = Boughton | first = Alice | authorlink = | coauthors = | year = 1909 | title = Camera Work | publisher = | location = | id =References
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