"The very boldness with which Eugene manipulated the negative by scratching and painting forced even those with strong sympathy for the purist line of thinking like White, Day and Stieglitz to admire Eugene's particular touch...[he] created a new syntax for the photographic vocabularity, for no one before him had hand-worked negatives with such painterly intentions and a skill unsurpassed by his successors."
~ Weston Naef
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Photographer Frank Eugene, was born as Frank Eugene Smith in New York City. He would later adopt the pseudonym "Frank Eugene" to distinguish his artistic work from his commercial photography. Frank Eugene made significant contributions to the Pictorialist movement, and was a founding member of the Photo-Secession. His distinctive style of portraiture is characterized by soft focus and selective focus techniques, creating "ghostly" and dreamlike images. His work left a lasting impact on the world of photography, bridging the gap between photography and traditional art forms, and he is considered a key figure in the history of artistic photography in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.
I hope you enjoy this great "ghostly" image by Frank Eugene! A perfect fit for those celebrating Halloween tonight!
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