Reva Brooks

(1913-2004)

Reva BrooksReva Brooks left Canada in 1947 along with her husband Leonard who planned to study painting in Mexico for a year. They settled in the small Mexican town of San Miguel de Allende where Leonard began studying painting.

Accompanying Leonard on his painting trips, Reva began to photograph the local Mexican population and after a short time one of her photographs "Confrontation" came to the attention of Edward Weston and Ansel Adams, as well as Edward Steichen who purchased the photograph for inclusion in the New York Museum of Modern Art's Family of man exhibit.

Robert Edwards Holloway

(1874-1904)

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Robert Holloway was a noted educator, scientist and photographer from Newfoundland, Canada. Among many of his achievements he also published a book of photos of Nova Scotia in the late 1890's.

This photo is from St Johns bay Nova Scotia and is signed Copyright Holloway St Johns.

Eugene Raymond Hutchinson

(April, 1880–April 28, 1957)

Eugene Raymond HutchinsonEugene Hutchinson was an American photographer who first made his mark as a pictorial photographer, using lighting and darkroom techniques to transform his work into artistic images.

Based in Chicago from about 1910 to 1930, Hutchinson initially specialized in portrait work, winning favor most notably among leading lights in the world of literature, the arts and progressive politics. Source: Wikipedia