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F. Holland Day

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Self Portrait: The Photographer's Persona, 1840�1985

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1985–1986

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Photo-Secession (American Photography 1902�1910)

Museum of Modern Art, New York

1948

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F. Holland Day was an American photographer and publisher active from the 1880s through the early 1900s. A pioneer of pictorialist photography, he employed soft focus, hand-applied pigments, and theatrical composition to elevate the medium toward fine art status. Day founded the publishing house Copeland and Day in Boston and championed photography as a gallery-worthy practice during a period when it remained largely dismissed by the art establishment. His archival contributions and advocacy for photography's aesthetic legitimacy shaped the medium's institutional recognition in the twentieth century.

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Artworks (13)

Japanese Landscape

1910 · photogravure

image: 11.5 × 9.7 cm (4 1/2 × 3 13/16 in.) sheet: 22.3 × 14.8 cm (8 3/4 × 5 13/16 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Ebony and Ivory

1900 · Photogravure

15 1/2 × 11 1/2" (39.4 × 29.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty

1900 · Photogravure

7 3/8 × 6 3/4" (18.7 × 17.2 cm)

Museum of Modern Art

Ebony and Ivory

1899 · photogravure mounted on gray wove paper

image: 16.7 x 14.2 cm (6 9/16 x 5 9/16 in.) mount: 38 x 27.9 cm (14 15/16 x 11 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Beauty is Truth--Truth Beauty

1899 · photogravure in sepia overmatted and mounted on green wove paper

image: 18.7 x 17.2 cm (7 3/8 x 6 3/4 in.) mat: 38.1 x 27.9 cm (15 x 11 in.)

National Gallery of Art

Study of Head of Christ

1898 · Platinum print

Image/paper: 13 × 11.7 cm (5 1/8 × 4 5/8 in.); First mount: 18.2 × 17.3 cm (7 3/16 × 6 13/16 in.); Second mount: 35.5 × 27.9 cm (14 × 11 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Ebony and Ivory, No. 8 from the portfolio "American Pictorial Photography, Series I" (1899); edition 146/150

1897 · Photogravure

Image/paper: 16.8 × 14.4 cm (6 5/8 × 5 11/16 in.); Hinged paper: 38 × 28 cm (15 × 11 1/16 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

Ethiopian Monarch

1897 · Platinum print

Image/paper: Diam.: 10.9 cm (4 5/16 in.); First mount: 17.8 × 12.3 cm (7 1/16 × 4 7/8 in.); Second mount: 35.6 × 27.9 cm (14 1/16 × 11 in.)

Art Institute of Chicago

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Museum of Modern Art

New York, US

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Group Exhibition Self Portrait: The Photographer's Persona, 1840�1985

New York · 1985

Group Exhibition Photo-Secession (American Photography 1902�1910)

New York · 1948