Albert Southworth

Albert Sands Southworth ( born March 12, 1811 in West Fairlee, Orange County, Vermont, † March 3, 1894 in Charlestown, Massachusetts) was an American photography pioneer. He and his partner Josiah Johnson Hawes are considered the most important American portrait photographers of the 19th century.

Life

Albert Southworth, born 1811 in the small town of West Fairlee in Orange County in the state of Vermont, the Phillips Academy in Andover visited (Massachusetts ) near Boston and was then in Cabotville (now Chicopee ) down. 1839 introduced him to his former classmate Joseph Pennel with the daguerreotype. At the age of twenty-eight years, he went to New York and learned the daguerreotype process at Samuel Morse. In May 1840 Southworth and Pennel became partners. In the spring of 1841 they moved from Cabotville to Boston and led her first photo studio on Scollay Square, and from 1843 in the Tremont Row. In the same year Pennel ended the partnership and Josiah Johnson Hawes (1808-1901) became his successor.

From 1849 to 1851 Southworth went from gold rush attracted to California. In 1863 he separated after twenty years of his partner Josiah J. Hawes. It still worked as a photographer and dealt with graphology.

Southworth & Hawes

Southworth and Hawes operated the daguerreotype as an art form; a claim which found expression both in the recordings as well as in pricing. Were colored daguerreotypes of the Hawes and his wife Nancy. The clientele of the studio on Tremont Row 51 was especially the noble and wealthy bourgeoisie Boston. Among the known Southworth & Hawes persons portrayed, among others, Robert Browning, John Quincy Adams, Lajos Kossuth, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Lola Montez and Ralph Waldo Emerson.

Southworth and Hawes saw the stereoscopy the beginning of a new era in photography and subsequently developed the Grand Parlor and Gallery Stereoscope. They received a patent on it, but only three units were built.

One of the most famous recordings of Southworth & Hawes shows the trailing scene of the first public operation in which a patient was anesthetized with ether - the birth of modern anesthesia. The engagement took place on October 16, 1846, the photo was taken a few days later.

(1849 )

(1852 )

Display of Albert S. Southworth in the Boston Directory ( 1868)

The " Äthertag of Boston " ( "Death of Pain" ) in become known as the Ether Dome later operating room

Unidentified woman ( 1850 )

The Niagara at the Atlantic Dock, East Boston ( 1855 )

Henry W. Longfellow ( 1850 )

Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 1857 )