(b Alfred, ME, 17 July 1883; d San Francisco, 11 Nov 1973). American photographer. Self-taught, he started to produce photographs at the age of 12. From 1898 to 1910 he worked in his father’s bookshop and then worked as a reporter for the Washington Post, travelling to Europe in 1910. Having earlier produced photographs of ships and sailors for tourist cards, from 1913 to 1917 he worked as a freelance photojournalist in Virginia. In 1917 he set up a studio in New York, where he produced the first photographic cover for the Saturday Evening Post as well as photographs for Ladies Home Journal, the New York Times and other publications. From 1922 to 1923 he worked as a stills photographer, actor and writer for film studios. Though this was mainly for Mack Sennett in Hollywood, he also worked for D. W. Griffiths as a stills photographer on Way Down East (1920) and accompanied Lilian Gish to Italy to provide stills for Griffiths’s The White Sister (1923). After establishing a studio in Paris in 1924 he had his photographs published in such journals as Harper’s Bazaar, L’Illustration, New York Herald Tribune, The Tatler, Vanity Fair, Vogue and Vu. He photographed film stars and the Moulin Rouge in Paris and also produced fashion pictures, such as Natasha Rambova in Fortuny Gown (c. 1924; see Hall-Duncan, p. 41).