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Born in Westminster, Massachusetts, Edwin Hale Lincoln went into the photographic business in Brockton in 1876. He pioneered photographing yachts under full sail in Newport, Rhode Island and became one of the first photographers to specialize in documenting large estates. On commission, he photographed the mansions of Newport and Lenox, Massachusetts in their turn-of-the-century splendor. In the 1890s, Edwin Hale Lincoln settled in the Berkshires and began an extensive photographic study of New England wild flowers. He published his photographs over a 30 year period in a handmade, small-edition folio of platinum prints called Wild Flowers of New England. Edwin Hale Lincoln's wildflower studies were widely used in university botany departments and in schools of fine art. He also made studies of trees, orchids, and landscapes. Edwin Hale Lincoln photographed with an 8x10 view camera and printed primarily on platinum paper.
While many photographers of the day were working in the soft focus and painterly mode of Pictorialism, Edwin Hale Lincoln's photographs were influenced by the Arts and Crafts movement. His "straight" and direct style continued a long American tradition.
Bibliography:
- George Dimock, A Persistence of Vision: Photographs by Edwin Hale Lincoln, Greensboro, NC: George Dimock, University of North Carolina, 1981.
- Charles Flint Antiques, Platinum Prints by Edwin Hale Lincoln 1848-1938, Lenox, MA: Charles Flint Antiques, 1984.
- Lee Gallery, Naturalist Photography: 1880 to 1920, Winchester, MA: Lee Gallery, September 1998.
- Lisa Bush Hankin, No Record So True : The Wildflower Photographs of Edwin Hale Lincoln (1848-1938), New York: Richard York Gallery, 2002.
- Heinz K. Henisch, History of Photography January-March 1989, London: Taylor & Francis Ltd., 1989.
- Tom E. Hinson, Catalogue of Photography: The Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH: Cleveland Museum of Art, 1996.
- Donald T. Oakes, A Pride of Palaces, Lenox Summer Cottages 1883-1933, Lenox, MA: Lenox Library Association, 1981.
- Christian Peterson, Peter Henry Emerson and American Naturalistic Photography, Minneapolis,MN: Minneapolis Museum of Art, 2008.
- The Photo Review, The Photo Review Benefit Auction: 19th 20th and 21st century photographers, Philadelphia, PA: The University of the Arts, 2005.
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