Frederick H. Evans
FREDERICK H. EVANS
“A Sea of Steps” SOLD
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FREDERICK H. EVANS
“Ely Cathedral: Prior’s Door...”, 1891, platinum print, 6" x 4 3/8".
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Frederick H. Evans, English, 1853-1943
Frederick Evans is best known for his breathtaking platinum prints of architectural
interiors. Before devoting his time solely to the art of photography, Evans
owned a small bookshop in London where many artists and writers, including
George Bernard Shaw and Aubrey Beardsley, came together. Evans did take
some portraits of these friends, but his photographic mastery can be found
in his images of English and French cathedrals. Evans worked tirelessly
to use the effects of light and shade to create images with harmonized values
and he achieved these masterful works of art without manipulating the negative
or the print. He wrote several articles for publications including Amateur
Photographer and Photogram and exhibited his work widely.
He contributed many prints to Alfred Stieglitz's Camera Work and
exhibited at Stieglitz's gallery "291". Evans was a member of The Linked
Ring and was named an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society.
In the 1920s platinum paper became scarce and Evans found he could not achieve
the same rich tonal quality using silver paper so he stopped making photographs.
Today he is considered one of the masters of pictorial photography.
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