Frederick Evans is best known for his breathtaking platinum prints of architectural interiors. Before devoting his time solely to the art of photography, Evans owned a small bookshop in London where many artists and writers, including George Bernard Shaw and Aubrey Beardsley, came together. Evans did take some portraits of these friends, but his photographic mastery can be found in his images of English and French cathedrals. Evans worked tirelessly to use the effects of light and shade to create images with harmonized values and he achieved these masterful works of art without manipulating the negative or the print. He wrote several articles for publications including Amateur Photographer and Photogram and exhibited his work widely. He contributed many prints to Alfred Stieglitz's Camera Work and exhibited at Stieglitz's gallery "291". Evans was a member of The Linked Ring and was named an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society. In the 1920s platinum paper became scarce and Evans found he could not achieve the same rich tonal quality using silver paper so he stopped making photographs. Today he is considered one of the masters of pictorial photography.
[Contributed by Lee Gallery]
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