Stunning still life study 1924 by Minna Keene 1859-1943

Description: Stunning still life study 1924 by Minna Keene 1859-1943. From Photograms of the Year 1924 the annual publication of the London Salon of Photography. Minna Keene was born Minna Bergman in Germany in 1861 and became one of the most successful pictorial portrait photographers of the beginning of the twentieth century. Her early work concentrated on still life as subject matter, particularly flowers and fruit. In 1903 (the same year in which she was elected to the Royal Photographic Society) she emigrated to South Africa, where her husband Caleb Keene opened a showroom in Cape Town. Examples of Keene’s photographs of native and Boer life in South Africa were shown at the Lyceum Club in London in April 1907 and in 1914 her South African celebrity portraits were shown in a one woman show at the AP Little Gallery in Covent Garden, in the same year she became a fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and joined the London Salon of Photography. After emigrating to Canada in about 1913, Keene was commissioned to photograph the Rockies (1914–15). In 1920, she opened a studio in Toronto, relocating to Oakville in 1922. She continued to exhibit at the London Salon until at least 1929, and in international exhibitions in New Zealand, Budapest, Pittsburgh and Tokyo. In the later years of her life she was assisted and ultimately succeeded as a photographic portraitist by her daughter Violet (1893–1987), she died in Canada in 1943. All items are delivered in archival sleeves and hard backed envelopes. Happy to combine postage.

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