via touitteure ▻https://twitter.com/SandrineTolotti/status/1569964845705080833 je découvre #Lora_Webb_Nichols
▻http://www.lorawebbnichols.org
A remarkable 24,000 image archive by the photographer, businesswoman and homemaker Lora Webb Nichols, providing an intimate window into life on the Wyoming frontier in the early 20th century. This website features a curated selection work from the LWN archive.
(Déjà mentionnée ici ▻https://seenthis.net/messages/906310 mais je l’avais loupée)
Lora Webb Nichols Photography Archive
About Lora
Lora Webb Nichols (1883-1962) created and collected approximately 24,000 negatives over the course of her lifetime in the mining town of Encampment, Wyoming. The images chronicle the domestic, social, and economic aspects of the sparsely populated frontier of south-central Wyoming.
Nichols received her first camera in 1899 at the age of 16, coinciding with the rise of the region’s copper mining boom. The earliest photographs are of her immediate family, self-portraits, and landscape images of the cultivation of the region surrounding the town of Encampment. In addition to the personal imagery, the young Nichols photographed miners, industrial infrastructure, and a small town’s adjustment to a sudden, but ultimately fleeting, population increase.
As early as 1906, Nichols was working for hire as a photographer for industrial documentation and family portraits, developing and printing from a darkroom she fashioned in the home she shared with her husband and their children. After the collapse of the copper industry, Nichols remained in Encampment and established the Rocky Mountain Studio, a photography and photofinishing service, to help support her family. Her commercial studio was a focal point of the town throughout the 1920s and 1930s.
▻http://www.lorawebbnichols.org/learn-more
▻https://digitalcollections.uwyo.edu/luna/servlet/uwydbuwy~6~6
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Sur Libé
Photographie
Lora Webb Nichols, il était une femme dans l’Ouest
Depuis ses 16 ans, lorsqu’on lui offre son premier appareil photo, cette Américaine, née en 1883, autodidacte et « working girl », n’aura de cesse de documenter sa vie dans le Wyoming des pionniers. Soit quelque 24 000 négatifs aujourd’hui compilés dans un livre somptueux et consultables en ligne dans leur intégralité. Un témoignage d’une ampleur et d’une modernité sans pareil.
▻https://www.liberation.fr/culture/photographie/lora-webb-nichols-il-etait-une-femme-dans-louest-20210312_VYFDMRZZ2NGUFMG
Ce que je trouve troublant, c’est la sensation qu’avec le grain qui s’affine au fil des années, on se sent plus proche des sujets.
