F. HOLLAND DAY.(photographic exhibition, Boston)(Brief Article)

MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON

Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, and Julia Margaret Cameron have all had large exhibitions in the last few years. So why not F. Holland Day? F. Holland who?

Fred Holland Day was born in Boston in 1864, the same year as Stieglitz. Like Cameron, Day took intense, dreamy portraits of his friends and their children. Like Stieglitz and Steichen, he became one of the leading pictorialists, or "fuzzywuzzies," as Edward Weston once called them-those turn-of-the-century photographers who tried to emulate painting through their blurry photographs ...

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