This biography from the Archives of AskART:
| A leading American portrait photographer, she grew up in the West and came East to help her mother run a boardinghouse in New York after her father died.
She married Edward Kasebier, a German importer of shellac. Raising three children, she was denied admission to Cooper Union, a leading art school in New York, so in 1888, she entered the newly opened Pratt Institute and studied portrait painting. On a trip to France, she discovered her interest in photography, and apprenticed to a scientist to understand the chemical properties behind it. She also learned business management.
For portraits photographs, she charged twenty-five dollars, with five dollars for each print. Among her subjects were Arthur Davies, John Sloan, Mark Twain, and Booker Washington. She also photographed Auguste Rodin in his Paris studio and Buffalo Bill's Wild West Troupe.
Her style was pictorial with soft, hazy images, which went out of style in the early 20th century, giving way to hard, detailed imagery. |
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