Eickemeyer Rud (1 results)

Unbound. Condition: Near Fine. Gelatin silver photograph. 11.25" x 8.5". Captioned in red in print along with the copyright information and "Printed and Developed by Full Gas-Light on 'Special Rough' Velox", along with the logo of the Nepera Chemical Company. Small nicks in the upper margin not touching the image, else very near fine. Two black women working in a sweet potato field, one hoeing and the other stooped over planting, with a plow or harrow beside them. We surmise that this was an advertisement in an (April?) 1898 issue of *The Photographic Times.* Eickemeyer, born in Yonkers, New York, was an American pictorialist photographer, a member of the New York Camera Club, and along with Alfred Stieglitz, one of the first two Americans admitted to "The Brotherhood of the Linked Ring," an English group devoted to photography as a fine art. His photographs appeared in *Camera Work*, and he won numerous international medals for his work. One of his iconic images of black tenent farmers.