Hartmann, Sadakichi | Harry W. Lawton and George Knox (essay date 1978)
Harry W. Lawton and George Knox (essay date 1978)
SOURCE: An introduction to The Valiant Knights of Daguerre: Selected Critical Essays on Photography and Profiles of Photographic Pioneers, by Sadakichi Hartmann, edited by Harry W. Lawton and George Knox with Wistaria Hartmann Linton, University of California Press, 1978, pp. 1-34.
[In the following essay, Lawton and Knox provide an extensive survey of Hartmann's life, works, and enduring influence.]
He was admired; he was feared; he was detested. Among the pioneers of photographic criticism in America none exerted such direct personal influence on so many photographers as did Sadakichi Hartmann (1867-1944), the Japanese-German writer and critic. He began his career as a photographic critic by allying himself with Alfred Stieglitz and the cause of artistic photography, but he soon expanded his focus to include all aspects of the medium—artistic, professional, and amateur. Whereas...
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