biography of Fred Holland DAY (1864-1933)

Birth place: Norwood, MA

Addresses: Southport, ME

Profession: Photographer, publisher

Exhibited: BMFA, "Art and the Camera:The Photographs of F. Holland Day,"2001 (posth., solo).

Member: Royal Photogr. Soc., 1905.

Work: LOC (650 prints); AIC; IMP/GEH; MMA; Royal Photogr. Soc. (exh. in 1973); Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris.

Comments: From 1893 to 1899, his firm Copeland & Day published some of the most beautiful books ever made in America. Day was the first to promote the poet Keats. He arranged the first exhibition of American pictorial photography, The New School of American Photography." in London (1900), in which 103 of the 375 photographs were by Day. All his work was lost in his studio fire (1904). An eccentric, Day took to his bed from 1917 until his death in 1933.

Sources: Witkin & London, 120"