Edwin Hale Lincoln

Background

Edwin was born in 1848, in Westminster, Massachusetts, United States.

Career

Edwin took up photography in 1877, and in 1883 he went to the Berkshires of New England, where he photographed the grounds and interiors of many of its great estates. Also, he began to photograph wildflowers, which he continued to do from 1893.

Best known for his flower images, "Lincoln also photographed local Berkshire landmarks, special events, and landscapes. For his nature studies he used a number of cameras, none using a negative smaller than 8 x 1 0 inches. He printed his work on platinum paper only. Because of the long exposures needed, he often carried his flower subjects, their roots wrapped in moss, back to his studio. There, by natural light, he could compose them and photograph them unhindered by breezes" (William F. Robmson, A Certain Slant of Light).

Achievements

• Publication Monograph: Wild Flowers of New England, 3 vols., 1904, rev. to 8 vols., 1914.

Works

More photos

• book

  • Drummer Boy: The Civil War Diary of Edwin Hale Lincoln

    (At the tender age of fourteen, Edwin Hale Lincoln longed ...)

    2005

Membership

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  Lincoln was a charter member of the American Orchid Society.

  American Orchid Society