Olive Edis
| Mary Olive Edis | |
|---|---|
 Autochrome self-portrait | |
| Born | 3 September 1876 |
| Died | 28 December 1955 (aged 79) |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation | Photographer |
Mary Olive Edis, later Edis-Galsworthy (3 September 1876 – 28 December 1955) was a British photographer who was famous for autochrome phototographs and portrait photography. She served as a war artist in World War I.[1]
Life
Olive Edis was a daughter of Arthur Wellesley Edis, Professor of Gynaecology at the University College Hospital. In 1903 she and her sister Katherine opened a studio in Sheringham, Norfolk where they specialised in portraits of local fisherman and members of the local gentry. She later had studios in Farnham, Surrey and Ladbroke Grove, London. Edis worked with platinum prints and from 1912 she pioneered colour autochrome photography. Her sitters included George Bernard Shaw, Emmeline Pankhurst and the Duke of York.[2]
Edis was one of the first women photographers to make use of the autochrome process and she patented her own design of autochrome viewers, termed diascopes. In 1920 she was commissioned to create advertising photographs for the Canadian Pacific Railway and her autochromes of this trip to Canada are believed to be some of the earliest colour photographs of that country.[3]
She joined the Royal Photographic Society in 1913 and was elected a Fellow in 1914. [4] She was appointed an official war artist and photographed British Women's Services and the battlefields of France and Flanders between 1918 and 1919 for the Imperial War Museum.[2][5][6] She married a Cambridge academic Edwin Henry Galsworthy, a cousin of the novelist John Galsworthy. She died in 1955.[7]
Cromer Museum in Cromer holds a large collection of her work including prints, autochromes and glass plate negatives.[8]
The first retrospective exhibition of her work was held at Norwich Castle Museum and Art Gallery in 2016 -17. [9]
Gallery
Arthur Foley Winnington-Ingram. Bishop of London. Autochrome portrait
Autochrome seascape.
David Lloyd George. Platinum print portrait.
References
- ↑ Oxford Dictionary of National Biography (online ed.). Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/ref:odnb/54348. (Subscription or UK public library membership required.)
- 1 2 Witness: Women War Artists. Catalogue for the exhibition at Imperial War Museum North 7 February 2009 – 19 April 2009
- ↑ Olive Edis (1876-1955) at Luminous-Lint. Accessed 10 March 2013.
- ↑ From information supplied by the Royal Photographic Society, 5 March 2015.
- ↑ Kathleen Palmer (2011). Women War Artists. Tate Publishing/Imperial War Museum. ISBN 978-1-85437-989-4.
- ↑ Amanda Mason. "We Sent A Photographer To 1919 France.Here Are Her Photos.". Imperial War Museum. Retrieved 15 September 2015.
- ↑ Portraits of Olive Edis at the National Portrait Gallery, London
- ↑ Cromer Museum - Olive Edis collection Retrieved 14 August 2015
- ↑ "Fishermen and Kings: the photography of Olive Edis". Great Art for Our Region - EAAF. East Anglia Art Fund. Retrieved 16 October 2016.
External links
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Wikimedia Commons has media related to Olive Edis. |
- Paintings by Olive Edis at the Art UK site
- Examples of Olive Edis' images from Mark Jacobs collection
- The Olive Edis Project, presenting many of her First World War photographs