Background
Charles Henry Caffin was born in 1854 in Sittingboume, Kent, England, United Kingdom.
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Charles Henry Caffin
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He received his BA from Oxford's Magdalen College and was influenced by Stieglitz.
Career
Caffin worked in the theater about 1855-61. He emigrated to the United States in 1892 and did decorations for the Chicago'World Columbia Exposition in 1893. He began writing reviews and art criticism about 1898, eventually publishing in Cosmopolitan, St. Nicholas Magazine and all the New York papers. He was also the American editor of The Studio.
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PUBLICATIONS Books: How to Study Pictures . . . , 1941; American Masters of Sculpture, 1913, repr. 1969; Art for Life’s Sake, 1913; Dancing and Dancers of Today, w/Caroline Scurfield Caffin, 1912; The Story of French Painting, 1911; The Story of Spanish Painting, 1910; The Story of Dutch Painting, 1909; The Appreciation of the Drama, 1908; Old Spanish Masters Engraved by Timothy Cole, 1907 (Macmillan: London); The Story of American Painting, 1907, repr. 1937; Art in Photography, ed. & contr., 1905; American Masters of Painting, 1902; Photography as a Fine Art, intro, by Thos. F. Barrow, 1901. Anthology: Camera Work: A Critical Anthology, Jonathan Green, ed., 1973.
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Caffin's book Photography as a Fine Art, published in 1901, was "the first extensive examination of American expressive photography, a book that continues to have relevance into our own time" (Jonathan Green, Camera Work).
