Frank Eugene
Frank Eugene
American, 1865–1936
b. 1865; d. 1936
His actual name was Frank Eugene Smith, though he chose to discard the last. Born in New York, he went to live in Munich when in his twenties, and just after the turn of the century he became a lecturer in photography in that city.
He became a member of the Linked Ring in 1900, and was a founder-member of the Photo-Secession, and his work was reproduced in various editions of Camera Work between 1904 and 1916. He was an expert etcher, and many of his pictures show the use of the etcher's needle. Coburn, writing of Eugene, records "This talented worker ... etches with a needle upon his negative, and while not all the results obtained may by some be considered "pure photography" they are all acknowledged to be of great beauty and merit."
Person TypePerson
American, born Switzerland, 1826–1899
American, born France, 1868–1946
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