Joseph Keiley

Joseph Turner Keiley ( born July 26, 1869 in Maryland; † January 21, 1914 in New York ) was an American photographer of pictorialism, author and art critic. Keiley was a founding member of the Photo-Secession and a close associate of Alfred Stieglitz. During his lifetime, his photographs have been exhibited worldwide, they found, as well as his reviews and essays international recognition.

Life and work

Childhood and vocational training

Joseph Keiley was born as the oldest of seven children of Mr and Mrs John D. and Ellen Keiley in Maryland. But He grew up in Brooklyn, where the family curled soon after his birth. Keiley became a lawyer and as such co-founder of the law firm Keiley & Haviland.

Career as a photographer and author

In the mid-1890s Keiley began to photograph and came into contact with the renowned photographer Gertrude Käsebier. Like them, he photographed Native American contributors to the Wild West Show Buffalo Bills. Nine of these portraits were exhibited in 1898 in Philadelphia Photographic Salon. One of the judges of the exhibition was Stieglitz, who published a very benevolent criticism of the recordings Keileys.

As a result of the successful exhibition in Philadelphia Keiley was recorded in 1899 as the fourth American ever in the Brotherhood of the Linked Ring, at that time the most important association pictorialistischer photographers.

In 1900 Keiley joined the Camera Club of New York. A solo exhibition at the gallery of the club followed. At this time, Stieglitz was vice president of the Camera Club and editor of the Journal Club Camera Notes. Keiley quickly became the most important companion Stieglitz ' and one of the most prolific authors of the journal. He contributed in addition to various articles about his own photographs aesthetic or technical issues, and exhibition reviews.

Stieglitz and Keiley also carried out experiments with glyzerinentwickelten platinum printing ( Platinotypen ). Here, a previously developed by conventional means platinum pressure is treated to change its image effect by site -by applying a mixture of glycerin and developers. The experimental results they published in a joint article in the Camera Notes.

Both photographers were 1902 founding member of the Photo-Secession. Joseph Keiley could imagine 15 of his photographs at the first Secession exhibition at the National Arts Club.

As Stieglitz in 1903 prepared the publication of the journal Camera Work, he asked Keiley to be co-editor. For the next eleven years after Stieglitz Keiley was the most important employees of Camera Work; He contributed numerous articles, technical articles or reviews. He also advised Stieglitz, which European photographers should be presented in the Camera Work. In the magazine published a 1903 and 1907 six shots of Keiley.

In his later life Keiley traveled through Europe and Mexico, and he tried to bring a friend through a peaceful coup as President of Mexico.

Joseph Keiley died in 1914 in his honor Stieglitz published in Camera Work a long obituary.; his name remained in the imprint until 1917, the magazine was discontinued.