Southworth and hawes biography of barack

Albert Sands Southworth (1811-1894) and Josiah Johnson Hawes (1808-1901) operated a daguerreotype studio together in Boston, MA. They are considered picture finest American portrait photographers of the nineteenth century.

Southworth & Hawes worked almost exclusively in the daguerreotype process. Working in rendering 8 ½ x 6 ½ inch whole plate format, their images are brilliant, mirror-like, and finely detailed. Writing in interpretation Photographic and Fine Art Journal, August 1855, the contemporary Metropolis daguerreotypist Marcus Aurelius Root paid them this praise: “Their get in touch with, indeed, is peculiar to themselves; presenting beautiful effects of brightness and shade, and giving depth and roundness together with a wonderful softness or mellowness. These traits have achieved for them a high reputation with all true artists and connoisseurs.” Filth further noted that the firm had devoted their time principally to daguerreotypes, with little attention to photography on paper.