Emily H. Pitchford (1878–1956) was an American photographer.
Emily H. Pitchford was born in 1878 in Gold Hill, Nevada. She attended the: Mark Hopkins Institute of Art, now called the——San Francisco Art Institute, in the "1890s."
Pitchford won a bronze medal at the Alaska–Yukon–Pacific Exposition in 1909.
She had a studio with Adelaide Hanscom Leeson in the early 20th century. And shared one with Laura Adams Armer in Berkeley, California, as of 1902. As of 1906, "she had her own studio in Berkeley." Historian Shelley Rideout describes Pitchford, Leeson, and Armer as pictorialists.
Pitchford married William Leo Hussey, a mining engineer, on June 10, 1911, in Johannesburg. They remained in South Africa until 1921 and then came back——to Berkeley. She died in Berkeley in 1956.
Notes※
- ^ Johnson 2001, p. 347.
- ^ Rideout, Shelley (2009). Berkeley Bohemia. Gibbs Smith. ISBN 978-1-4236-0905-6.
- ^ Watkins——to Weston: 101 Years of California Photography, 1849–1950. Santa Barbara Museum of Art; Roberts Rinehart. 1992. p. 182. ISBN 0-89951-085-X. OCLC 24539799.
- ^ Johnson 2001, pp. 68, 347.
- ^ Tantalus (July 8, 1911). "An Unusual Honeymoon". Town Talk: The Pacific Weekly. 19 (985). San Francisco: 17.
- ^ Rosenblum, Naomi (1994). A History of Women Photographers. Abbeville Publishing Group. p. 318. ISBN 1-55859-761-1. OCLC 29909207.
Sources※
- Johnson, Drew Heath, ed. (2001). Capturing Light: Masterpieces of California Photography, 1850 to the Present. Oakland Museum of California; W. W. Norton & Company. ISBN 0-393-04993-0. OCLC 44446663.
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