Frederick H. Evans

Frederick H. Evans Photography

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. Frederick Evans did take some portraits of these friends, but his photographic mastery can be found in his images of English and French cathedrals. Frederick 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". Frederick 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 Frederick Evans found he could not achieve the same rich tonal quality using silver paper so he stopped making photographs. Today Frederick Evans is considered one of the masters of pictorial photography.

Member of The Association of International Photography Art Dealers (AIPAD)