C. Yarnall Abbott

Nationality

American

Lifetime

1870-1938

Biography

C. Yarnall Abbott American, 1870-1938 Although little known today, in his time Yarnall Abbott was one of the most important and widely exhibited American photographers. Besides working as a lawyer in Philadelphia, Abbott was a painter, author, and photographer, best known for his nude studies made using gum bichromate and glycerine-developed platinum prints. His work was recognized by such key figures as Alfred Stieglitz and Peter Henry Emerson. At the height of his career during the first decade of this century, Abbott showed his images nationally and internationally in both solo and group exhibitions, including a one-person invitational at the Royal Photographic Society in London. He served as president of the Photographic Society of Philadelphia and was a member of the Linked Ring, an amateur photographic club formed in London in 1892 to promote expressive and aesthetic concerns in the camera arts. T.W.F.

Artworks

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Camera Work

A. Horsley Hinton

Alfred Stieglitz

Alice M. Boughton

Alvin Langdon Coburn

Anne W. Brigman

Arthur Allen Lewis

Arthur Radclyffe Dugmore

Baron Adolph de Meyer

C. Yarnall Abbott

Clarence H. White

David Octavius Hill

E.M. Bane

Edward Steichen

Ema Spencer

Eva Watson-Schutze

F. Benedict Herzog

Francis Bruguière

Frank Eugene

Frederick H. Evans

Frederick H. Pratt

George Davison

George Bernard Shaw

George H. Seeley

Gertrude Käsebier

Guido Rey

Hans Watzek

Harold Mortimer-Lamb

Harry Rubincam

Heinrich Kuehn

Herbert G. French

Hugo Henneberg

J. Craig Annan

John Francis Strauss

Joseph T. Keiley

Julia Margaret Cameron

Karl F. Struss

Marshall R. Kernochan

Oskar Hofmeister

Paul Strand

Paul B. Haviland

Prescott Adamson

René Le Bègue

Robert Adamson

Robert Demachy

Sarah C. Sears

Theodor Hofmeister

W.W. Renwick

William B. Dyer

William B. Post

William E. Wilmerding