GARY SARETZKY

Archivist • Photographer • Educator

History of Photography Images & Texts

Margaret Bourke-White: In Print Exhibition Catalog

An illustrated version of the 2006 catalog for the exhibition at Rutgers University Libraries.  The original catalog, which I have available in Photo Books, was not illustrated. View Catalog

Edward S. Dunshee

Article in Garden State Legacy (2015) about Edward S. Dunshee, a peripatetic portrait photographer whose last studios were in Trenton and Philadelphia.  Visit Site

The Dunshees: Itinerant Photographers from Bristol, Vermont

Article published in 2016 in the New England Journal of Photographic History about the Dunshee brothers. See article. See also the visual supplement.

E.F. Hall

This website provides biographical information and images from a small collection of the Buffalo photographer’s personal photo archives. Visit Site

Thomas J. Maloney and U.S. Camera

Tom Maloney published the U.S. Camera Annual from 1935 to 1969, as well as photo books and magazines. This webpage provides the text to my Maloney chronology published in The Photo Review in 2004. Learn More

Charlotte Prosch

Charlotte Prosch, the first known female daguerreotypist in New Jersey, is profiled in this article published in Garden State Legacy, March 2016. Read Article 

Also available, “New Jersey’s First Female Daguerreotypist: Charlotte Prosch and Her Family,” The Daguerrean Annual 2023 (Cecil, PA: Daguerreian Society, 2023), 82-98.  Available with illustrations from the Daguerreian Society.  Read Text of Article

Pascal Sebah

A biographical summary with photos of the famed photographer of Constantinople and his successors. Read Article

Eleanor Perry Wood

 Information about this accomplished amateur photographer active in the 1940s-1960s with selected images from negatives donated after scanning to the ETS Archives, which holds records pertaining to her and her husband, the educational testing pioneer Ben D. Wood. Learn More

New Jersey Photographers Resources

Early Trenton photographer interview with Henry C. Lovejoy.  See also Indexes to Photographers.

19th & Early 20th Century Card Photograph Sizes

In Inches, smaller dimension first. View PDF

Nineteenth Century New Jersey Photographers - 2004 article in New Jersey History, Revised View PDF

Joseph Kirk & the Huff Brothers: 19th Century Newark Photographers

The four sons of Joseph Kirk all became photographers, including one in New Zealand, as discussed in this 2018 article published in Garden State Legacy. Read article here. See also related article, From Newark to New Zealand: Frank R. Huff, Photographer, Daguerreian Annual, 2017–2018. View PDF

Louise Rosskam: Documentary Photographer

New Jersey Studies: An Interdisciplinary Journal, Vol. 5, No. 2 (Summer 2019), 1-27. View PDF

Photographers of the Civil War Era: Theodore Gubelman of Jersey City  

Article published in New Jersey Studies in 2021. With Joseph G. Bilby.  See article. See link to supplemental portfolio of images.

“Most Deeply Hardened”: Eric T. Kunsman Photographs the Eastern State Penitentiary”  

Article published in Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Studies, 88:2 (April 2021), 235-245. View PDF.

“Photographers of the Civil War Era: Frank H. Price of Newark and Elizabeth”  

Article published in  New Jersey Studies in 2021.  With Joseph G. Bilby.  See articleSee link to supplemental portfolio of images.

“Photographers of the Civil War and Postwar Era: John P. Doremus”  

Article published in  New Jersey Studies in 2022.  With Joseph G. Bilby.  See articleSee link to supplemental portfolio of images.

“Careers in Camerawork: Six Photographers of Camden, New Jersey, 1860–1910” 

Article published in  SoJourn 6:1 (Summer 2021). See article. Issue available from Amazon.   Visual Supplement

“The Shady Side of the Lens: Six Lawbreaking Nineteenth-Century New Jersey Photographers” 

New Jersey Studies (Winter 2023). See link to supplemental portfolio of images.

“Exceptional Cameraworkers: Early Black Photographers in New Jersey” 

New Jersey Studies (Summer 2023).  Erratum: “Westcott” should be spelled “Wescott” in this article. See link to pdf of supplemental portfolio of images.

“Ira G. Owen: U.S. Civil War Era Photographer of Newton, New Jersey” 

New Jersey Studies (Winter 2024).

See link to supplemental portfolio of images.

“Samuel C. Chester: Southern New Jersey Photographer” 

SoJourn, Volume 7 (Autumn 2023), 129-148.  Link to pdf

View Supplemental Portfolio

“Gustavus W. Pach: A Nineteenth-Century New Jersey Photographer” 

The Daguerreian Annual, 2021 (Cecil, PA: The Daguerreian Society, 2021), 140–159.  Pach was the founder of Pach Brothers, a major photography firm based in New York and New Jersey active from the 1860s to the 1960s, with many branch galleries.  Available from the Daguerreian Society. Read Article

“Philadelphia Area Photographers: 

A Concise History, 1839–1940”

Drafted for an encyclopedia but not published.  Includes bibliography.  Read Article

“A Question of Priority: George G. Rockwood, Charles D. Fredricks, and Early Cartes de Visite in the United States,”

The Daguerreian Annual, 2024 (Cecil, PA: The Daguerreian Society, 2024), 25–61.  Available from the Daguerreian Society.

 Errata for print edition.  Read revised text of article without illustrations in print edition.

“Twelve Million Black Voices: Richard Wright, Edwin Rosskam, and the Golden Age of Documentary Photography Books”

Chapter in The African American Experience: Personal and Social Activism in the 19th and 20th Centuries, edited by Karen T. Ackermann (Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 2004), 101-131.  Read Article

“Review of Italian Neorealist Photography: Its Legacy and Aftermath by Antonella Russo”

The Photo Collector 43:3 (March 2022), 15–16. Also in The Photo Review, April-May 2022, 21.   Read Article

“Review of Russell Lee: A Photographer’s Life and Legacy by Mary Jane Appel”

The Photo Collector (Summer 2021), 19–20.  Read Article

“Review of Daguerre’s American Legacy: Photographic Portraits (1840–1940) from the Wm B. Becker Collection by François Brunet and Wm. B. Becker,”

The Photo Review 31:1 (February 2015), 37..   Read Article

“Review of Re-viewing Documentary: The Photographic Life of Louise Rosskam by Laura Katzman and Beverly W. Brannan,”  

Views: The Newsletter of the Visual Materials Section of the Society of American Archivists, 26:2 (July 2012), 14-15. Read Article


“Charles Henry Davis: Photographer of Plainfield, New York, and Hoboken” 

Read article in New Jersey Studies (Summer 2025)

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