untitled (portrait of Mrs. Vitale), Gertrude Stanton Käsebier

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Gertrude Stanton Käsebier, untitled (portrait of Mrs. Vitale)
Gertrude Stanton Käsebier, untitled (portrait of Mrs. Vitale)
Gertrude Stanton Käsebier
untitled (portrait of Mrs. Vitale)
late 1800s–early 1900s
Gertrude Stanton Käsebier
1852–1934
untitled (portrait of Mrs. Vitale), late 1800s–early 1900s
Where object was made: United States
Material/technique: gum bichromate print
Dimensions:
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 15.24 x 19.05 cm
Image Dimensions Height/Width (Height x Width): 6 0.98425 x 7 1/2 in
Mat Dimensions (Height x Width): 19 x 14 in
Credit line: Gift of Mrs. Hermine M. Turner
Accession number: 1973.0018
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Archive Label 2003: In a lecture delivered to the Photographic Society of Philadelphia in 1898, Käsebier gave the following advice to the women in the audience: “I earnestly advise women of artistic tastes to train for the unworked field of modern photo- graphy. It seems to me to be especially adapted to them, and the few who have entered it are meeting with gratifying and profitable success. If one already draws and paints, so much the better the equipment. If one has wrestled with the subtle lines of the human form; if one has experienced the feeling of trying to produce color from simple pigments, their enjoyment of the exquisite pictures thrown upon the ground glass will be enhanced, and their artistic growth and color sense will not suffer. . . . Besides, consider the advantage of a vocation which necessitates one’s being a taking woman.”