Title
Francis Watts Lee: A Reintroduction
Publication Date
2012
Document Type
Article
Abstract
Francis Watts Lee and his family hold a unique position in the history of photography. Most familiar are photographs of Lee's daughter Peggy, taken by F. Holland Day, and the striking portrait of Peggy and her mother, Agnes Rand Lee, in Gertrude Käsebier's composition, Blessed Art Thou among Women. Few may be aware that Francis Watts Lee was a photographer himself, as well as a talented printer, and was largely responsible for introducing the distinctive soft-focus Pinkham/Smith lens to the United States. This article reintroduces Lee to the photographic community, detailing his contributions to the field and reproducing his own work for the first time in more than a century.
Original Citation
Fanning, Patricia J. (2012). Francis Watts Lee: A Reintroduction. History of Photography, 36(1), 15-32. https://doi.org/10.1080/03087298.2011.619794
Identifier
Virtual Commons Citation
Fanning, Patricia J. (2012). Francis Watts Lee: A Reintroduction. In Sociology Faculty Publications. Paper 5.
Available at: https://vc.bridgew.edu/sociology_fac/5