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DIXON, Jessie Bell
- Born
- Hamilton, Ontario, 1878
- Died
- Hamilton, Ontario, 1938
- Biography synopsis
- Jessie Dixon, an amateur photographer noted for a great sensibility in her pictorialist approach, was a very active member of the Hamilton Camera Club. Before turning to photography she had studied at the Hamilton Art School. She won local and international praise and awards beginning in 1904; in 1905 Dixon won a medal for a landscape. In 1920 her name was included as a member of the Pictorial Photographers of America, and her work was published in The American Annual of Photography in 1912. She received honorable mention at a photography exhibition in Montreal in 1923. A large collection of her work is held in the archives of the Hamilton Public Library.
- Media used
- Photography
- Education
- Hamilton Art School
- Memberships
- Pictorial Photographers of America, 1920
- Hamilton Camera Club
- File & Archive locations
- Hamilton Public Library, ON - Local History and Archives Department
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
Writings about- "Canadians Show Artistic Prints." The Gazette (Montreal) 11 Apr 1923: 6
- Bruce, Tobi. "Regional Translation: Some Hamilton Pictorialists." Lumina: Approaching a New Photographic Aesthetic Hamilton, Ontario: Art Gallery of Hamilton, 2000
- Greenhill, Ralph. Early Photography in Canada. Toronto: Oxford University Press, 1965
- Hunt, P.S.. "Getting Back on Track." The American Annual of Photography New York: The American Annual of Photography, 26 (1912): 235
- Koltun, Lilly, ed. Private Realms of Light: Amateur Photography in Canada 1839-1940 Markham, Ontario: Fitzhenry and Whiteside, 1984
- Pedersen, Diana, and Martha Phemister. "Women and Photography in Ontario, 1839-1929: A Case Study of the Interaction of Gender and Technology." Scientia Canadensis: Canadian Journal of the History of Science, Technology and Medicine / Scientia Canadensis: Revue canadienne d'histoire des sciences, des techniques et de la médecine 9.1 (1985): 27-52
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