Josiah Johnson Hawes

Josiah Johnson Hawes ( born February 20, 1808 in East Sudbury (now Wayland ), Massachusetts, USA; † August 7, 1901 in Crawford Notch, New Hampshire, United States) was an American photography pioneer. He and his partner Albert Sands Southworth are considered the most important American portrait photographers of the 19th century.

Life

Josiah Hawes was a portrait painter before he learned the daguerreotype process at François Fauvel Gouraud, a student of Louis Daguerre, who held a series of lectures in Boston in 1840. 1843 Hawes founded with Albert Sands Southworth ( 1811-1894 ), a photo studio.

In 1849 he married Nancy Stiles Southworth, the sister of his partner, with whom he had three children: Alice, Marion and Edward. While Albert Southworth 1849 to 1851 went to California to seek his fortune as a gold prospector, Hawes led the company together with his wife and her brother Asa Southworth. After Southworth had dissolved the partnership in 1863, Hawes continued with her studio and was active into old age as a photographer.

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.

Josiah J. Hawes, Self Portrait ( 1895)

Albert Sands Southworth ( ca.1845 -1850 )

Display of Southworth & Hawes in Boston Directory ( 1848)

Henry W. Longfellow ( 1850 )

Ralph Waldo Emerson ( 1857 )

John Quincy Adams ( 1848)

Lola Montez ( 1851)

Lajos Kossuth ( 1851)