Adam Clark Vroman
Adam Clark Vroman | |
---|---|
![]() | |
Born | Lasalle, Illinois | April 15, 1856
Died | Altadena, California | July 24, 1916
Occupation(s) | photographer and bookseller |
Adam Clark Vroman (April 15, 1856, La Salle, Illinois - July 24, 1916, Altadena, California) was an American portrait photographer, known primarily for his portraits of indigenous peoples of the Southwestern United States.[1][2] He was the founder and proprietor of Vroman's Bookstore - the oldest and largest independent bookshop in Southern California.
He originally worked for the railways in various positions.[1] In 1892 he began taking landscape photographs, then opened a bookstore in Pasadena together with J.S. Glassock. From 1895, he visited the villages of the Hopi Native Americans for ten years, which he painted. In addition, he photographed the Navajo tribe. Later he also lectured on Indigenous Americans[2]
In his photographs, he showed their facial features, but also realistic images of their dwellings and arranged simple genre scenes of their way of life. In the portrait, he combined documentary requirements with a cultivated rendering.[2]
Vroman's Bookstore
Vroman's Bookstore was founded by Adam Clark Vroman in 1894. It was then called Vroman's Book and Photographic Supply and was located at 60 E. Colorado St in Pasadena, California. Vroman was an avid photographer of the Southwest and Native American culture, and his interest in photographic equipment began a long-standing portfolio tradition in his bookstore.
Gallery
-
Young Hopi woman, ca 1886
-
Native American elder
References
External links
- Articles with short description
- Short description is different from Wikidata
- Articles with hCards
- Articles with FAST identifiers
- Articles with ISNI identifiers
- Articles with VIAF identifiers
- Articles with WorldCat Entities identifiers
- Articles with BNF identifiers
- Articles with BNFdata identifiers
- Articles with GND identifiers
- Articles with J9U identifiers
- Articles with LCCN identifiers
- Articles with Libris identifiers
- Articles with NLA identifiers
- Articles with NTA identifiers
- Articles with PortugalA identifiers
- Articles with CINII identifiers
- Articles with MoMA identifiers
- Articles with Musée d'Orsay identifiers
- Articles with PIC identifiers
- Articles with RKDartists identifiers
- Articles with ULAN identifiers
- Articles with Trove identifiers
- 1916 deaths
- 1856 births
- American photographers
- Articles with SELIBR identifiers