William Goldman (Fotograf)
Vorlage:Under construction Vorlage:Infobox person William I. Goldman, known as Billy Goldman, (27 March 1856 - 1922) was a commercial photographer in Reading, Pennsylvania. A photographer of the respectable citizens of Reading, he also secretly assembled a collection of photographs of the prostitutes of the city which was published in 2018.
Early life and family
William Goldman was born in Wernersville, Berkshire County, on 27 March 1856. He was educated in Reading.[1]
Career
In 1876 Goldman entered the photographic profession working for E. E. Hafer. After learning the business, he opened his own studio in 1891 at 602 Penn Street, Reading. He was immediately successful due to the reputation and training he had acquired from Hafer and made a specialism of carbonettes when they were introduced. He became treasurer of the State Photographers' Association.[1]
Contemporary sources describe him as "an exceedingly popular gentleman ... identified with numerous of the city's secret and social organizations" such as Reading Lodge No. 549, Reading Chapter No. 152, DeMolay Commandery No. 9, Harrisburg Consistory, Rajah Temple, Elks Lodge No. 115, and Emblematic Lodge No. 169.[1]
Secret collection
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At the same time as photographing the respectable citizens of Reading, Goldman also secretly assembled a collection of mostly nude and semi-nude photographs of the prostitutes at Sarah Shearer's (also known as "Sal" or "Sallie") brothel at Eighth and Walnut streets in Reading, of which he is believed to have also been a customer. The collection, dated to around 1892, also includes some male nudes, identified as customers,[5] one African-American woman,[6] and a nude self-portrait.[7] There are some dual portraits of women but no mixed-sex images. The images have been described as offering insights into fashion and interior decor towards the end of the nineteenth century.
The collection was found by Robert Flynn Johnson around 2000 in the stock of a postcard dealer at a fair in Concord, California. Johnson bought two photographs then and subsequently visited the dealer at her home in the Sierra Foothills to purchase the rest of the collection. The dealer told him that they had been bought by her late husband at a gun show in Cincinnati, Ohio, and had originally been mounted in albums from which she had removed them. Johnson was able to place and approximately date the photographs because one showed a woman reading a copy of the Reading Eagle dated 14 August 1892. Others showed women inspecting the photographs in the since destroyed albums.[8]
Gallery
Photographs from the Goldman collection, all c.1892 and unidentified.
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Unknown woman -
Two nude women -
Nude man with gun, identified as a customer -
Woman with arms raised
Death and legacy
William Goldman died in 1922.[9] In 2018, photographs from his collection were exhibited at the Ricco/Maresca gallery in New York[10] and subsequently at the Serge Sorokko Gallery in San Francisco.[11] A book about his life and collection was published by Glitterati Editions in 2018 with a text by Robert Flynn Johnson, a foreword by Dita Von Teese, a preface by Ruth Rosen, and an essay by Dennita Sewell.[12][13]
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- ↑ a b c Referenzfehler: Ungültiges
<ref>-Tag; kein Text angegeben für Einzelnachweis mit dem Namen city. - ↑ Johnson, p. 31.
- ↑ https://www.readingeagle.com/news/article/secret-photos-of-1892-reading-brothel-published
- ↑ Johnson, p. 27.
- ↑ Johnson, Robert Flynn. (2018) Working Girls: An American Brothel, circa 1892. The Secret Photographs of William Goldman. New York: Glitterati Editions. pp. 38, 88-91. ISBN 9781943876587
- ↑ Johnson, pp. 64-65.
- ↑ Johnson, p. 24.
- ↑ Johnson, pp. 25-26.
- ↑ Johnson, p. 35.
- ↑ Working Girls: An American Brothel, circa 1892 The Secret Photographs of William Goldman. artnet, 2018. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
- ↑ Unseen photos provide a sensitive look at America's early 'working girls'. Dita Von Teese, CNN Style, 29 November 2018. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
- ↑ Working Girls. Glitterati Editions. Retrieved 2 December 2019.
- ↑ Glimmers of Modernism from a 19th-Century Bordello. Edward M. Gómez, Hyperallergic, 15 September 2018. Retrieved 2 December 2019.