Musical accompaniment: Dreaming by Al Bowlly.

Clarence Hudson White was one of the original members of the Photo-Secession Movement.

I like his photographs a lot–we’ve looked at several of them: blowing bubbles in cyanotype, his early morning pictures of his wife and in New England, and at the edge of the woods in the evening.

These portraits were both taken in 1908 and despite the similarities in the girls’ age and appearance, their personalities make them look very different.

This is Miss Mary Everett:

Nelson Atkins Museum of Art

This one doesn’t include the subject’s name, it’s simply called Girl with Rose.

Nelson Atkins Museum of Art

The last one has some strange appeal for me. It’s called Telegraph Poles and it was taken in 1903.

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