William B. Dyer

Nationality

American

Lifetime

1860-1931

Biography

William B. Dyer American, 1860-1931 In 1895, a year after moving to Chicago, William Buckingham Dyer (born in Racine, Wisconsin) bought a camera and soon became an enthusiastic pictorial photographer. By 1899 he was exhibiting in photographic salons in New York and Philadelphia and had provided illustrations for James Whitcomb Riley's popular Love Lyrics. The following year Dyer illustrated Margaret E. Sangster's book Winsome Womanhood. Clarence H. White and Alfred Stieglitz were both early supporters of Dyer. White exhibited Dyer's work at the Newark Camera Club in Ohio (1899-1900); Dyer's friendship with Stieglitz led him to become a founding member of the Photo-Secession in 1902, and his work was included in many of the group's exhibitions. In 1907 Stieglitz reproduced two of Dyer's images in Camera Work and featured his photographs, along with those of Alice M. Boughton and C. Yarnall Abbott, in an exhibition at the Little Galleries of the Photo-Secession. While in Chicago Dyer also worked as a professional photographer, specializing in portraiture. In 1908 he moved to Oregon to become a fruit farmer; he later moved to California, where he lived until his death. M.M.

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