Vol. 5 No. 9 (2019)
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Seguaci americani della Scuola Romana di fotografia: Nathan Flint Baker, Leavitt Hunt e Richard Morris Hunt

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  • Beth Saunders
Beth Saunders
University of Maryland, Baltimore County
DOI: https://doi.org/10.14601/RSF-25767

Published 2019-10-29

Keywords

  • Flint Baker, Nathan,
  • Hunt, Leavitt,
  • Hunt, Richard Morris,
  • calotype,
  • salt paper,
  • Rome,
  • Egypt,
  • Roman school of photography
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How to Cite

Saunders, B. (2019). Seguaci americani della Scuola Romana di fotografia: Nathan Flint Baker, Leavitt Hunt e Richard Morris Hunt. Rivista Di Studi Di Fotografia. Journal of Studies in Photography, 5(9), 8–29. https://doi.org/10.14601/RSF-25767
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Abstract

In 1851, before embarking on a journey to Egypt and the Near East, Americans Leavitt Hunt (1831-1907) and Nathan Flint Baker (1820-1891) traveled to Rome to learn photography. There, they encountered members of the Roman School, an international group of practitioners of paper negatives. A year later, Leavitt’s brother Richard Morris Hunt (1827-1895) traveled to the same sites and collected photographs. This article explores the networks that connected them to Rome, illuminating a little-known American contribution to paper photography and providing further confirmation of the influence of the Roman School on the medium’s development.

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