Henry P. Moore
American, 1835 - 1911
Like many other aspiring American artists during the mid-nineteenth century, Moore decided to work in the print industry. He sketched and published town views from 1854 to 1860. How Moore learned photography remains a mystery. However, by age twenty-seven his peers described him as a ¿well known photographer.¿ A savvy businessman, his photography studio on the island of Hilton Head, South Carolina, comprised a tent set up in a sandy cotton field.
Like his contemporary Timothy O¿ Sullivan (see O¿Sullivan¿s biography on the Getty Web site at www.getty.edu/art/gettyguide/artMakerDetails?maker=1928), Moore¿s photographs taken during the American Civil War in South Carolina and Georgia differed from the typical photographs of the day. Rather than shooting posed portraits of officers in a studio, Moore shot on location and captured images of former slaves, soldiers in camps, and Navy warships.
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