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    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

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3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
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H. H. Bennett, Photographer: His American Landscape

H. H. Bennett, Photographer: His American Landscape

Rath, Sara
Kramer, Christina E.

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ISBN10: 0299237044
ISBN13: 9780299237042
Publisher: Terrace Books
Published: Dec 17 2012
Pages: 286
Weight: 2.03
Height: 0.61 Width: 8.04 Depth: 9.80
Language: English
Awards: Midwest Book Award (MIPA)

My energies for near a lifetime have been used almost entirely to win such prominence as I could in outdoor photography.--H. H. Bennett

Henry Hamilton Bennett (1843-1908) became a celebrated photographer in the half-century following the American Civil War. Bennett is admired for his superb depictions of dramatic landscapes of the Dells of the Wisconsin River and also for his many technical innovations in photography, including a stop-action shutter and a revolving solar printing house that is now housed at the Smithsonian Institution. With his instantaneous shutter, he gained recognition for his striking images of moving subjects, such as lumber raftsmen shooting the river rapids and his son Ashley leaping in midair from a bluff to the craggy pillar of Stand Rock. Less well-known are Bennett's splendid urban photographs of nineteenth-century Chicago, Milwaukee, and St. Paul.

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