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William
James Stillman (1828-1901) was an influential American art critic,
artist, diplomat, journalist and photographer. His best known
photographs are views of the Acropolis in Athens, which he published
in a portfolio of carbon prints in 1870, shortly after his tenure
as American Consul in Crete (1865-1868). The Division of Rare
and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library, owns a
copy of the portfolio, The Acropolis of Athens, Illustrated
Picturesquely and Architecturally in Photography (London:
F. S. Ellis, 1870) [Rare Books NA 280 .S85 +++] . Click on
any one of the six thumbnail images for a larger version and more
information about the photograph.
Stillman was an associate of both A. D. White (Cornell’s first President) and Willard Fiske (Cornell’s first University Librarian). During his visit to Athens with Fiske in 1889, White sought the photographer’s advice in purchasing photographs. Correspondence between Stillman and members of his family and Willard Fiske can be found in the Daniel Willard Fiske Papers, Collection 13/1/348 and 13/1/1165, Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections, Cornell University Library. Included in the A. D. White Architectural Photographs Collection are three albumen prints signed and dated by Stillman and another three that are almost certainly by Stillman. These photographs depict aspects of the Athenian Acropolis and were probably all taken around 1869, during the photographer’s first photographic project in Athens. All the images are available in larger digital formats through the A. D. White Architectural Photographs Image Browser. |
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Links
to additional information about William James Stillman:
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A
biography of Stillman by Wendell P. Garrison, published in The
Century in September, 1893 (Volume 46, no. 5, pp. 656-658;
courtesy Cornell’s Making
of America Project)
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Gary
Edwards Collection of Photographs of Greece, 1839-1859,Getty
Research Institute for the History of Art and the Humanities,
Department
of Special Collections
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Department
of Special Collections, Schaffer Library,
Union College (William James Stillman Papers), with a brief
biography of Stillman as well as a bibliography of primary and
secondary sources
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Nineteenth-century
Photographs Collection,
Canadian Centre for Architecture (Centre Canadien d’Architecture)
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Russell
Sturgis Collection, Washington University Archives
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Stillman’s association with Ralph Waldo Emerson and the American Transcendentalist Movement and his most famous painting, The Philosophers’ Camp, of 1858 (now in the Concord Free Library, Concord, Massachusetts) |
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Inquiries about the A. D. White Architectural Photographs Collection or information on this page This page last updated July 1, 2002 |