Ema Spencer

Nationality

American

Lifetime

1857-1941

Biography

Ema Spencer American, 1857-1941 A native of Newark, Ohio, Ema Spencer is perhaps best remembered today for her encouragement of the young Clarence H. White. Nevertheless, she was a talented photographer in her own right, exhibiting nationally and internationally, winning awards in Italy and Germany, and participating in several of the most important exhibitions of her day. Spencer founded the Newark Camera Club and was a member of the Photo-Secession; her photographs were published in the January 1909 issue of Camera Work. The calm, quiet quality of her work links her not only to White, with whom she studied, but also to Gertrude Käsebier and others whose images often had a domestic focus and informal tone. In addition to her interest in photography, Spencer was a columnist for the Newark Advocate and a trustee of the New York Public Library. 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