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Clarence H. White - Julia Hall McCune - 1980.135 - Cleveland Museum of Art
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White was a pioneer of the American pictorialist vision. For more than 25 years, he helped shape the style and, by extension, the direction of 20th-century photography through his work as a practitioner, leader, teacher, and mentor. He was primarily a photographer who enjoyed posing his family and friends in intimate interiors against a window or outdoors at dawn or dusk. He enhanced his negatives' soft quality by printing on platinum paper, a medium that renders the middle tones of a print with great sensitivity. In this image White posed one of his favorite models, Julia Hall McCune, a family friend and student, seemingly lost in thought beneath an arbor. The soft light diffuses her full-length pose and illuminates the quiet, meditative mood of the scene.
Clarence H. White (1871–1925), American photographer known for subtle portraits of women and children and also as an influential teacher of photography. White had from his early years an appetite for artistic and intellectual pursuits. After finishing high school in Newark, Ohio, he took a job as an accountant in his father’s grocery business and married in 1893. He taught himself the art of photography and photographed constantly despite his limited free time and finances; he costumed and posed family members and friends in the early dawn or evening hours, in their homes and in the open and produced elegantly posed and subtly lit images.
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