Author: Fiske, George (1835 - 1918)
Title: The Three Brothers. (4000 Feet. Yosemite Park, California). Original Photograph
Description: Yosemite Park, California: circa 1880s. Albumen print mounted on board. 25.2x34.3 (10x13˝"); board: 35.5x43.2 cm (14x17"). Possiibly printed as a negative.. Signed in negative by George Fiske. Numbered 918 in the image lower left.. Condition: Image faded (unless printed as a negative) , surface scratches, silvering at edges; good......................George Fiske, photographer, was the “Big Chief Rain-in-the-Face” of the early Yosemite illustrators. His whole life was marked by a series of tragedies and ended with one. Fiske’s troubles began 22 years after October 22, 1835 when he was born and 3000 miles from Amherst, New Hampshire where he was raised as a farm boy. He had moved to California and taken a job as a banking clerk for his brother’s company. The company was located in the same building where Charles Leander Weed, one of the first to photograph Yosemite, managed a photography studio. Within six years, George had learned photography and was working as an assistant to well known photographer Carleton E Watkins and later, Eadweard Muybridge. Then his luck started going down hill. In just one year, George lost is Mother, Father and brother, James. The following year, he married Elmira F Morrill (“Myra”) and returned to work with Watkins, who immediately went bankrupt. He worked on his own in San Francisco for a while then, in 1879, relocated to Yosemite Valley where he set up shop as the first permanent photographer to reside in the park......... Fiske became close friends with Galen Clark, who was Yosemite Park’s first Superintendent. Some reports say they even grew up together in New Hampshire, a few miles apart. That is certainly not true[1]. But, they were friends at Yosemite. Fiske was the photographer of choice to illustrate Clark’s books.... Tragedy was never far from Fiske’s door step as his wife passed away of cancer after 22 years of marriage. He married Carrie Paull in 1897 after meeting her in the Valley while she vacationed there. In 1904 his home and studio burnt down, costing him two cameras, some lenses, most of his negatives and plates and a large number of his prints. His friend, Galen Clark, past away in 1910 and his second wife died in 1917. Finally, after being diagnosed with a brain tumor, suffering sever headaches, life had just dealt him too many blows. On October 21, 1918, one day before his 83rd birthday, George Fiske took his own life. George is buried in the Yosemite Cemetery. His second wife, Carrie, is buried next him on the right and his friend, Galen Clark, is buried on the other side, to the left. .
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Title: The Three Brothers. (4000 Feet. Yosemite Park, California). Original Photograph
Description: Yosemite Park, California: circa 1880s. Albumen print mounted on board. 25.2x34.3 (10x13˝"); board: 35.5x43.2 cm (14x17"). Possiibly printed as a negative.. Signed in negative by George Fiske. Numbered 918 in the image lower left.. Condition: Image faded (unless printed as a negative) , surface scratches, silvering at edges; good......................George Fiske, photographer, was the “Big Chief Rain-in-the-Face” of the early Yosemite illustrators. His whole life was marked by a series of tragedies and ended with one. Fiske’s troubles began 22 years after October 22, 1835 when he was born and 3000 miles from Amherst, New Hampshire where he was raised as a farm boy. He had moved to California and taken a job as a banking clerk for his brother’s company. The company was located in the same building where Charles Leander Weed, one of the first to photograph Yosemite, managed a photography studio. Within six years, George had learned photography and was working as an assistant to well known photographer Carleton E Watkins and later, Eadweard Muybridge. Then his luck started going down hill. In just one year, George lost is Mother, Father and brother, James. The following year, he married Elmira F Morrill (“Myra”) and returned to work with Watkins, who immediately went bankrupt. He worked on his own in San Francisco for a while then, in 1879, relocated to Yosemite Valley where he set up shop as the first permanent photographer to reside in the park......... Fiske became close friends with Galen Clark, who was Yosemite Park’s first Superintendent. Some reports say they even grew up together in New Hampshire, a few miles apart. That is certainly not true[1]. But, they were friends at Yosemite. Fiske was the photographer of choice to illustrate Clark’s books.... Tragedy was never far from Fiske’s door step as his wife passed away of cancer after 22 years of marriage. He married Carrie Paull in 1897 after meeting her in the Valley while she vacationed there. In 1904 his home and studio burnt down, costing him two cameras, some lenses, most of his negatives and plates and a large number of his prints. His friend, Galen Clark, past away in 1910 and his second wife died in 1917. Finally, after being diagnosed with a brain tumor, suffering sever headaches, life had just dealt him too many blows. On October 21, 1918, one day before his 83rd birthday, George Fiske took his own life. George is buried in the Yosemite Cemetery. His second wife, Carrie, is buried next him on the right and his friend, Galen Clark, is buried on the other side, to the left. .
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Price: US$ 450.00 Seller: Wittenborn Art Books
- Book number: 51-6365
- Book number: 51-6365
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