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| Charles Henry Breed, 1876-1950, American Photographer
Charles Henry Breed was an early American Pictorialist Photographer, who
completed his primary work between the years of 1896 to 1920. He founded
the first Camera Club at Princeton University in 1896. In 1899, he exhibited ten photographs at the "Second Annual International
Photography Salon" held at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, Pa.
Charles Breed worked in platinum and silver and sepia toned his best work in his own darkroom.
His primary occupation was as an educator, but he spent most of his life
sending his photographs to many periodicals both here and in Europe and
was frequently published.
Dr. Breed was a classical Pictorialist photographer, who used a soft
focus and delicate lighting. Much of his early work was of his three
children between the years of 1905-1915. In his "Welcome" diary of 1910,
he recorded his trip to France for a two-month period. During this trip
he photographed everyday and kept meticulous records of lighting, and
shutter speeds and other data for each image.
In 2008, the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh hosted Charles Henry Breed's
work for a major retrospective. In it his work was described by the
curators as "having a place in the continuum of photographers that
helped to establish the traditions of the formal family photograph and
the more casual family snapshot."
Born: 1876, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Died: 1950, Sparta, New Jersey
Studio: New Jersey
Subjects: Landscapes, portraiture
Method/Media: Pictorialist Photography, Platinum, Silver Gelatin photographs
Museums:
The Museum of Modern Art
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Smithsonian Institution
The Princeton Museum
The Seeley G.Mudd Manuscript Library at Princeton University
The Brooklyn Museum
The George Eastman House
The New Jersey Historical Society
The New Jersey State Museum
The Newark, New Jersey Public Library
The New York Public Library
The Sherman Hines Photography Museum, Canada
Biblioteque Nationale, Paris, France
Periodicals:
The Annals of Natural History , Zoology and Botany, 1901, Volume 1-page 235
The American Museum of Natural History, One photograph
The Strand Magazine, July 190I, page 236, London, England Vol.XXIL
One photograph of a Man in a Bottle illusion.
The Bookman, 1909, Vol. 28, page 532, Dodd, Mead and Company, New York
Five Photographs of the grounds of the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey
The Register, February 1903, page 4, May,1918, page 8, "Foundation House" The
Lawrenceville School: One photograph. page 122 Report of an illustrated 1916 lecture with photographs of Mr. Breed's "Trip to Hawaii"
Publication of the Lawrenceville School, The Riverside Press, Cambridge
The Appalachia Bulletin, December 4, 1923 page 99. Lecture with lantern slide presentation on "Going West" given by Mr. Breed.
Publication of the Appalachian Mountain Society, Bird-lore, 1927, Volumes 29-30. page 494,
Lecture with photographs by Mr. Breed of his trips to the "Hawaiian Islands" Publication of the National Audubon Society, Macmillan & Co.
The Blair Breeze, 1928, October, Photograph of the grounds of Blair Academy, 1928, December, Restored photograph by Mr. Breed of his father. Blair Academy, Blairstown, New Jersey, Monroe Publishing Co.
The Blair Bulletin, January 25, 1929, page 2, Lecture at Centenary College, New Jersey on "Photography in the Canadian Rockies, The Grand Canyon and Hawaii" Mr. Breed's lecture illustrated by his hand-painted lantern slides. March 7 1938, page 11,
Lecture on Photography with lantern slides. The South Park Presbyterian Church, New Jersey, January 1946, Cover story Photograph of Charles Breed taking a photograph. Blair Academy, Blairstown, New Jersey
The American Art Review, 2007, December page 148 "Pictorialist Family Photography"
Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pa. Art review of the exhibition of Mr. Breed's photography. Published by American Art Media, Leawood, Kansas
Solo Exhibition:
1899, The 2nd Annual Photography Salon, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Group Exhibition.
1986,1991, 2008, Blair Academy, Blairstown, New Jersey, Solo
1988, Books & Co. New York City, Single
1989, The Newark, New Jersey Public Library, Single
1990, The New York Public Library, Single
1991, The Princeton Club, New York City, Single
2008, The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Two other photographers
Submitted by Jack Lubiner, who wrote.
I "worked on the Charles Henry Breed collection for 27 years. All of
the museum placements and exhibitions where arranged by me. Charles Henry Breed is most featured in the Metropolitan Museum of Art,
The Museum of Modern Art and The Smithsonian Institution as you
requested. His last exhibition was at the Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh
in 2008."
For a ten week period in the summer of 1910, Charles Breed went to Paris and surrounding areas to take photographs and made elaborate handwritten notes in a 35 page book called the Welcome Photographic Exposure Record and diary. I have decided to donate copies of the book to the Museums that hold his work. So far (as 2/2013) the Brooklyn Museum has accepted my offer.
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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| Charles Breed, born in Pittsburgh, on March 11,1876, developed his love for photography at the young age of twelve when he built his first camera. Educated at the Shady Side Academy and Princeton University, he founded the first "Camera Club" in 1896. By 1899, his work was being exhibited by the Pittsburgh Amateur Photographer's Society, "2nd International Salon" where he entered ten photographs at the Carnegie. While photography was a life-long passion his other career was in education. He was a Latin teacher and headmaster of two private boy's schools and founded the Providence Country Day School in 1926.
During his exhibition, at the Carnegie Museum in 2007 it was stated by the Curator or Fine Arts, Amanda Zehnder, on one of the wall panels when discussing the three pictorialists in the show that "they had a place in the continuum of photographers that helped to establish the traditions of the formal family photograph and the more casual family snapshot".
Charles Breed, who is also known as Dr. Breed, from his academic career, was a classical Pictorialist who used a soft focus and delicate lighting. Much of his early work was of his three children between the years of 1905-1915. The body of his work was done in Platinum and Silver. In his "Welcome" diary of 1910 he recorded his trip to France for a two month period. During this trip he photographed everyday and kept meticulous records of lighting, and shutter speeds and other data of each image.
Charles Breed took beautiful photographs. Besides his family as subjects he experimented in many other areas. He photographed landscapes in America and Canada and in Europe. He took aerial views, telescopic views, he used a microscope to record plant life, he experimented with complex negative splicing procedures to very effective ends, he hand-painted on his work, left a large body of Christmas cards with poetry, and experimented with the Sabattier effect. Overall, his work is a joy to view.
[Contributed by Jack Lubiner, August 7, 2008]
Exhibitions
2008 Blair Academy, Romano Gallery, Blairstown, New Jersey
2007 The Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
1991 Blair Academy, Romano Gallery, Blairstown, New Jersey
1991 The Princeton Club, New York City
1990 The New York Public Library
1989 The Newark, New Jersey Public Library
1988 Books & Co. New York City
1986 Blair Academy, Romano Gallery, Blairstown, New Jersey
1899 The 2nd Annual Photographic Salon and Exhibition, Carnegie Museum, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
Collections
The Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Museum of Modern Art
The Smithsonian American Art Museum
The George Eastman House
The Princeton Art Museum
The Seeley G.Mudd Manuscript Library at Princeton University
The Brooklyn Museum
The New Jersey State Museum
The New Jersey Historical Society
The New York Public Library: Research Library
The Newark, New Jersey Library
The Sherman Hines Photography Museum, Liverpool,Nova Scotia, Canada
Biblioteque Nationale, Paris, France
Publications
1901, The Strand Magazine, London England Vol. XXIL, July to December, p.236
[One photographic illusion of a "Man in a Bottle"]
1909, The Bookman, Vol. 28, p. 532 Dodd, Mead and Company, New York
[Five photographs of the Lawrenceville School in New Jersey]
1923, The Appalachian Bulletin (The Appalachian Mountain Society), Dec. 4, p.99.
[Lecture with his "lantern slides" by Mr.Breed on "Going West"]
1927, Bird-lore (Publication of the National Audubon Society, Macmillan & Co.), Volumes 29-30, p.494
[Lecture with photographs by Mr. Breed on his trip to the Hawaiian Islands]
[Contributed by Jack Lubiner, July 4, 2010]
Source:
Luminous-Lint
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