06 works, PORTRAIT OF A LADY, Evelyn Nesbit, by Rudolf Eickemeyer Jr., Otto Sarony, Gertrude Käsebier, George Grey Barnard and James Carroll Beckwith, , with Footnotes. #154
Evelyn Nesbit, c. 1901
Platinum print
9 in x 6 3/4 in; 22.86 cm x 17.145 cm
National Museum of American History
Rudolf Eickemeyer, Jr. used a wide variety of printing processes, printing out some negatives in more than one medium. In his lectures, he pointed out that this approach to photography was important because in the hands of a photographer who “lives and understands the infinitely varied moods of nature, photography can be made to express and interpret them.” More on this work
Rudolf Eickemeyer Jr. (August 7, 1862 — April 25, 1932) was an American pictorialist photographer, active in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. He was one of the first Americans (along with Alfred Stieglitz) to be admitted to the Linked Ring, and his photographs won dozens of medals at exhibitions around the world in the 1890s and early 1900s. He was famous among his contemporaries for his portraits of high-society women, most notably model and singer Evelyn Nesbit. Eickemeyer’s best-known photographs are now part of the collections of the Smithsonian Institution. More on Rudolf Eickemeyer Jr…