Clarence White photograhed by Margaret Watkins, 1923
Description: Sepia tone is due to the printing process since Watkins abannoned the silver gelatin print for palladium printing paper. The shallow focused image really helps to reduce background clutter and allow the reader to focus on the subject.
Intensions: to have a strong composition where the viewer can see aspects of the person's character by their placement and stance in the image.
Good/Bad: Shows how White is connected with nature while still sticking-out and being an individual through the clutter that surrounds him. I would have liked to see both eyes of the person to get a better feeling for their character and less of their surroundings.
Evaluation: Very strong image created by the placement of legs, arms and clothing which match the tree and seem to be the foundation for White- as he leans heavily into the trunk to survey his surroundings, in relaxed anticipation of a great event that will occur any minute.
Margaret Watkins (1884-1969)
Self-Portrait 1919, Glasgow
"[Clarence] White hired a woman, Margaret Watkins, to teach advertising photography at his own school of photography in Manhattan in 1914- at the time [when teaching photography] was thought to be exclusively a male dominion. Women also formed a significant proportion of the membership of Pictorial Photographers of America, organized by White and Margaret Rhodes Peattie in 1916; in the year after its founding 53 of the 157 members were women" (109).
[Rosenblum, N. 1994. A History of Women Photographers. New York: Abbeville Pub. 109, 159-60, 324, 346, 159 p.]
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