Charles D. Fredricks
{{Short description|American photographer (1823–1894)}}
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|birth_name=Charles DeForest Fredricks
|birth_date= {{Birth date|1823|12|11}}
|birth_place=New York, New York, US
|death_date= {{Death date and age|1894|05|25|1823|12|11}}
|death_place=Newark, New Jersey, US
|occupation=Photographer
|signature = Signature of Charles DeForest Fredricks (1823–1894).png
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Charles DeForest Fredricks (December 11, 1823 – May 25, 1894) was an American photographer.
Biography
Charles D. Fredricks was born in New York City on December 11, 1823.{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=U11DAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA398 |title=The National Cyclopaedia of American Biography |volume=II |publisher=James T. White & Company |pages=398–399 |year=1921 |access-date=2021-05-12 |via=Google Books}} He learned the art of the daguerreotype from Jeremiah Gurney in New York, while he worked as a casemaker for Edward Anthony. In 1843, at the suggestion of his brother, Fredricks sailed for Angostura, today Ciudad Bolívar, Venezuela. His business took him to Pará, Rio Grande do Sul,{{cite journal|author1=Lenzi, Teresa|author2= Menestrino, Flávia|title=Pioneiros da fotografia em Rio Grande. Indícios de passagens e permanências. Relato de uma pesquisa histórica|journal=Revista Memória em Rede, Pelotas|volume=2|issue=5|date=July 2011|url=http://www.ufpel.edu.br/ich/memoriaemrede/beta-02-01/index.php/memoriaemrede/article/view/21/21|language=pt}} Montevideo, Buenos Aires. He enjoyed great success in South America, remaining there until some time in the early 1850s.
Following a brief period in Charleston, South Carolina, Fredricks moved to Paris in 1853. Here he became the first photographer to create life-sized portraits, which artists (like Jules-Émile SaintinSaintin, Jules Emile (2013) Sur la piste des Indiens, Le Pythagore, {{ISBN|978-2-908456-83-7}}) were hired to color using pastel.
On his return to New York City, he rejoined Jeremiah Gurney, though it is not clear whether he was initially a partner or an employee. By 1854, he had developed an early process for enlarging photographs. His partnership with Gurney ended in 1855.
During the latter half of the decade he operated a studio in Havana. Here he received awards for his photographic oil colors and watercolors. During the 1860s he operated a studio on Broadway that was noted for its cartes de visites. In the early 1860s, Charles Fredricks personally photographed John Wilkes Booth (the assassin of President Lincoln) on several occasions at his studio.
He retired from photography in 1889 and died in Newark, New Jersey, five years later, on May 25, 1894.{{Cite news |url=https://www.newspapers.com/clip/77580932/new-york-tribune/ |title=Charles DeForest {{Sic|Fred|ericks|hide=y}} |newspaper=New-York Tribune |page=9 |date=1894-05-28 |access-date=2021-05-12 |via=Newspapers.com}}
References
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- José Antonio Navarrete. "La Habana de Charles D. Fredricks". En: José Antonio Navarrete. Escribiendo sobre fotografía en América Latina. Ensayos de crítica histórica (segunda edición revisada y ampliada). Montevideo: Centro de Fotografía, 2017.
External links
{{Commons category|Charles Fredricks}}
- {{Find a Grave|62884931}}
- [http://historiccamera.com/cgi-bin/librarium2/pm.cgi?action=app_display&app=datasheet&app_id=237 Charles DeForest Fredricks] at [http://historiccamera.com Historic Camera]
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