F. Benedict Herzog

Nationality

American

Lifetime

1859-1912

Biography

F. Benedict Herzog American, about 1859-1912 Felix Benedict Herzog, a patent attorney, inventor, and pictorial photographer known for his elaborate, multifigure images, was born in New York City. An 1881 graduate of Columbia University, Herzog invented many electrical devices, telephone accessories, and improvements for telephone switchboards, including a police call system. Notices of his activity as a photographer appear in the years following 1900. In 1904 he joined the Camera Club of New York and in 1905, 1908, and 1910 took part in members exhibitions there. Five of Herzog's images were reproduced in Camera Work in October 1905 and January 1907. In 1905 his photographs also were displayed at the Lewis and Clark Exposition in Portland as well as in two international exhibitions. Two years later his work was discussed in The Century Magazine (May 1907) and Wilson's Photographic Magazine (December 1907). Noted for his great skill in handling drapery and posing groups of models, Herzog maintained a studio on upper Broadway where he created idealized compositions such as The Tale of Isolde, The Banks of Lethe, and Two Maids of St. Ives. Working in what critic Christian Brinton called the "grand style," Herzog often drew upon literature for his subject matter and sometimes combined negatives to achieve the desired effect in the final print. M.M.

Artworks

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Camera Work: Marcella

F. Benedict Herzog

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Camera Work: The Tale of Isolde

F. Benedict Herzog

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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