Robert Stuart Redfield

Robert Stuart Redfield American, 1849-1923 Robert Stuart Redfield was a strong advocate of photography as a fine art during the turn-of-the-century debate on that subject. Born in New York and reared in Philadelphia, he belonged to a scientific family. In the 1860s, Redfield was first introduced to photography by Coleman Sellers, Constant Guilloû (the first president of the Photographic Society of Philadelphia), and a friendly professional named Hemphill, but did not undertake the new medium seriously until the appearance of dry plates in 1881. He also became an active member of the...