{"id":491,"date":"2008-04-17T23:42:22","date_gmt":"2008-04-18T04:42:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=491"},"modified":"2018-03-30T10:58:26","modified_gmt":"2018-03-30T15:58:26","slug":"evelyn-cameron-montana-photographer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=491","title":{"rendered":"EVELYN CAMERON, MONTANA PHOTOGRAPHER"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/cameron_16443.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><br \/>\n<em>Photo by Evelyn Cameron. Copyright \u00c2\u00a9 www.evelyncameron.com<\/em><\/p>\n<p>I stumbled across a PBS special, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.montanapbs.org\/EvelynCameronPicturesfromaWorthyLife\/\">Evelyn Cameron: Pictures From a Worthy Life<\/a>. Evelyn left a life of privilege in England and ended up on the Montana frontier. She taught herself photography and documented frontier life from 1894 until her death in 1928.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>She left all of her belongings to her best friend Janet Williams, including 1,800 glass-plate and film negatives, 2,500 original photographic prints, letters, manuscripts and Cameron&#8217;s diary. This photographic and historical collection was lost until rediscovered 50 years later in 1979. It is a treasure trove for Montana historians. Evelyn has been designated one of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.missoulian.com\/specials\/100montanans\/list\/043.html\">100 Most Influential Montanans of the Century<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>There is an official <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evelyncameron.com\/\">Evelyn Cameron website<\/a> which includes an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evelyncameron.com\/index.php?Action=BrowsePhotoAlbum\">album of 462 of her photos<\/a>. Viewing the photos online is not as compelling as seeing them on TV in hi-def but if will give you an idea of the nature of her work. If you have a chance to watch the documentary, it is an interesting look at life and photography in Montana, 100 years ago.<br \/>\nIn addition to the PBS documentary, there is a collection of her photos in Photographing Montana 1984-1928. There is a review at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.takegreatpictures.com\/HOME\/Columns\/Photo_Book_Reviews\/Details\/Photographing_Montana_1894-1928_The_Life_and_Work_of_Evelyn_Cameron_(Mountain_Press).fci\">TakeGreatPictures.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>*** *** ***<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Photo by Evelyn Cameron. Copyright \u00c2\u00a9 www.evelyncameron.com I stumbled across a PBS special, Evelyn Cameron: Pictures From a Worthy Life. Evelyn left a life of privilege in England and ended up on the Montana frontier. She taught herself photography and &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/?p=491\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-491","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=491"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19831,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/491\/revisions\/19831"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=491"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=491"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.blog.jimdoty.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=491"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}