George davison photographer biography
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George Davison (photographer)
George Davison (19 September – 26 December ) was an English photographer, a proponent of impressionistic photography, a co-founder of the Linked Ring Brotherhood of British artists and a managing director of Kodak UK. He was also a millionaire, thanks to an early investment in Eastman Kodak.
Biography
[edit]Even George Davison was born in Lowestoft, into the poor family of a shipyard carpenter. He received a good education, and gained employment as a civil servant at Somerset House, London in [1]
He began to make photographs in , and he joined the Camera Club photography society around that time. He took part in a Royal Photographic Society exhibition the next year, and became a member. He was influenced by naturalistic photographers in the early phase of his work, especially Peter Henry Emerson.[2]
However, Davison experimented with techniques and processes, and soon turned away from naturalistic photography. He st
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Impressionism in Photography: George Davidson
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On the 19th of September , English photographer, and a proponent of pictorial or impressionistic photography, George Davidson was born in Lowestoft, Suffolk, England. He is noted as one of the most important figures in the development of Pictorial photography at the end of the nineteenth century. Born into a comparatively modest family – his father was a shipyard carpenter – he was the only one of his siblings who was lucky enough to receive a secondary education. Davidson first took up photography in about and joined the Camera Club when it opened in November that year, becoming honorary sekreterare the following year. He first exhibited his work in , showing six pictures at the Photographic gemenskap of Great Britain Exhibition. He became a member of the society in November
An advocate of naturalistic photography, Davidson experimented
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1. INTRODUCTION TO GEORGE DAVISON AND THE WHITE HOUSE
| George Davison, benefactor of the White House, in a suitably pensive pose () |
Not that many people know it, but the home of the president of the United States isn't the only White House in existence. In the 'History' section of this website is an entry for the western world's other White House, the former Ammanford vicarage bought in by an eccentric English millionaire for use as a study centre for the town's miners. The White House closed in , at least as an educational centre, but in that brief ten years it educated and sent out into the world many people who would become Ammanford's political leaders for decades to come. Most went into the recently formed Labour Party and became town or county councillors, aldermen, Members of Parliament and even, in the person of the White House's one-time secretary Jim Griffiths, the first Secretary of State for Wales. In James Griffiths himself remembered the years of the White H