| LC control no. | nr2004015084 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Warren, G. K. (George Kendall), 1834-1884 |
| Variant(s) | Warren, G. K. (George Kendall), d. 1884 Warren, G. K. (George Kendall), -1884 Warren, George K., 1834-1884 Warren, George Kendall, 1834-1884 Warren, George (George Kendall), 1834-1884 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Located | Massachusetts |
| Birth date | 1834 |
| Death date | 1884 |
| Place of birth | Nashua (N.H.) |
| Place of death | Massachusetts |
| Field of activity | Photography Art |
| Profession or occupation | Photographers Artists |
| Found in | A memorial of Charles Sumner, 1874: p. 2 (G. K. Warren) Intl. Guide to 19th c. photographers, 1988 (Warren, George K.; photos dated 1853-1870) Directory of Massachusetts photographers 1839-1900, 1993 (Warren, George Kendall; b. 1834, d. 1884) Intl. photography George Eastman House index, 1998 (Warren, G.K.; b. 1824, d. 1884) Smithsonian American Art Museum, viewed April 6, 2023: Artist, George Kendall Warren (Born Nashua, NH ca. 1824-died Medford, MA 1884. Also known as: George Warren, George K. Warren. Born in Nashua, New Hampshire, Warren was making daguerreotypes in Lowell, Massachusetts, by 1851. Most of his career, however, was spent as a photographer for schools and universities such as Harvard, Yale, and Princeton. Warren also made many scenic cartes de visite of historic sites in Cambridge, Concord, and Boston areas.) <https://americanart.si.edu/artist/george-kendall-warren-6758> Getty Museum, viewed April 6, 2023: George Kendall Warren (Dates: 1834 - 1884. Role(s): Photographer. Nationality: American. Born: Nashua, New Hampshire, United States. Died: Boston or Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. George Kendall Warren began his long and prolific photographic career in 1851 in Lowell, Massachusetts, opening one of the city's first daguerreotype studios. He was celebrated for his portraiture and frequently photographed celebrities, and he also specialized in college-album photography. When the portrait business in Lowell began to flag just prior to the Civil War, Warren turned to specializing exclusively in senior class photographs for colleges including Dartmouth, Princeton, Williams, Harvard, Brown, Yale, and Rutgers universities. Encouraged by this success, he opened a studio in Cambridge in 1863 and began an extended project depicting the architecture and campus life at Harvard and around Harvard Square. In 1870 Warren moved to Boston, opening a second studio there and soon after a third near his home in Cambridgeport. He reestablished himself as a celebrity portrait photographer, earning praise from a reviewer: "...Mr. Warren gives more character to his pictures than any [photographer] now in New England....His studio...is well worth a visit.") <https://www.getty.edu/art/collection/person/103KMH> Harvard University, viewed April 6, 2023: Salt Prints at Harvard (George Kendall Warren (1834-1884). George Kendall Warren achieved success in the Boston area as a portrait and celebrity photographer. He also carved out a thriving business as the class photographer for a number of Ivy League and elite colleges including Brown, Dartmouth, Princeton, Williams, and Yale. In 1861, he began taking class photographs for Harvard, many of which reside in albums in the Harvard University Archives. While albumen prints were introduced in the 1850s, Warren continued to use the salted paper print process for the Harvard class albums into the mid-1860s, developing his own particular aesthetic through this early photographic technique. His images of graduating seniors, faculty, staff, campus buildings, landscapes, and surrounding Cambridge area exhibit a balance of both subtle tones and distinct details.) <https://projects.iq.harvard.edu/saltprintsatharvard/george-kendall-warren-1834-1884> |
| Associated language | eng |
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