Floride Green (1863 – October 24, 1936) was an American photographer.
Floride Green | |
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 Drawing of Floride Green, 1896 | |
| Born | 1863 Alabama, US |
| Died | October 24, 1936  (aged 72–73)San Francisco |
| Occupation | Photographer |
Floride Green was born in either Eutaw, Alabama,[1] or Mobile in 1863 to Rebecca (Pickens) and Duff Green.[2][3] Her family moved to Stockton, California, in 1872, after the South lost the American Civil War, and Floride was educated in California.[3][4] She graduated from a normal school in 1883 and began working as a teacher.[2] While teaching school in San Francisco, she took up amateur photography.[4] According to a history of Alabama photography, however, she took her first photographs on a visit to Alabama to see family.[2] Green met Lillie Hitchcock Coit in high school in St. Helena, California, and later published a book about Coit titled Some Personal Recollections of Lillie Hitchcock Coit.[3]
Green came to New York around 1897, where she started a photography business with a studio at 28 West 30th Street, Manhattan.[4] She specialized in photographs taken inside her subjects' homes, which required special attention to light.[4] Before taking photographs of children at their homes, she would make a preliminary visit to determine the best time of day to take their portrait.[5] Reportedly, her photographs of Black people in the South were transferred to slides and shown in Europe.[4] Her work was also shown at a 1900 exhibit of women's photography at the Exposition Universelle.[2]
She died on October 24, 1936, at the Dante Sanitarium in San Francisco.[3][6]
References
edit- ^ Hines Jr., Richard (March 1899). "Women and Photography". The American Amateur Photographer. 11 (3): 122.
- ^ a b c d Robb, Frances Osborn (2016). Shot in Alabama: A History of Photography, 1839–1941, and a List of Photographers. University of Alabama Press. p. 175. ISBN 978-0-8173-1878-9.
- ^ a b c d "Floride Green, 1863–1936". California Historical Society Quarterly. 15 (4): 383–384. December 1936. doi:10.2307/25160676. ISSN 0008-1175. JSTOR 25160676.
- ^ a b c d e Dodge, Grace Hoadley (1899). What Women Can Earn: Occupations of Women and Their Compensation. New York: F. A. Stokes Co. pp. 297–299. OCLC 988818374.
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- ^ Rosenblum, Naomi (1994). A History of Women Photographers. Abbeville Publishing Group. p. 84. ISBN 1-55859-761-1. OCLC 29909207.
- ^ "S.F. Woman Pioneer Is Taken by Death". San Francisco Examiner. October 26, 1936. p. 7 – via newspapers.com.
