Beatrice Tonnesen – Photographer & Artist

This is the eye of a beautiful, happy young woman photographed by BT around 1910. When I have the opportunity to do a proper scan on an image produced by a high quality camera, such as BT usually used, I can get to this level of digital detail. It’s far greater detail than can be [...]

Today on the WBEZ Chicago Public Radio program Eight Forty-Eight, director and resident photographer Jason Marck talked with journalist Geoffrey Johnson about Beatrice Tonnesen’s life. Johnson tells the Beatrice Tonnesen story in the March issue of Chicago magazine (soon on the newsstand and later on the web). A podcast is available.

The twelve images offered are in the small print of the graphic. They are: Grandma’s Tea, The Waif, The Rose, Husking Time, Reflection, Bubbles, Easter Tide, The New Baby, Our Pet, Old Harpist’s Treasure, Baccante, and Delores. Note the discussion of the use of the platinum print process for the images, also known as a [...]

This is the Zoomified reverse side to a Cook Ely photograph. Cook Ely trained Beatrice Tonnesen and some few years thereafter retired and sold his studio equipment to Beatrice. The image is interesting for the [...]

If you would like to submit an image for inclusion in the Slideshow, you can send it to this link for the Editors. The image can be in any kind of image format and at any pixel density. The larger the file size the better. Clear focus is more important than correct colors. Avoid shadows [...]

This image provided courtesy of the Oshkosh Public Museum shows the original photo taken by Beatrice Tonnesen, and then utilized for the painted image shown in the following Zoomed image.

Zoomify is a feature of the new Adobe Photoshop CS3 that allows zooming and panning. It automatically publishes an entire suite of HTML, XML, JPGs and Flash files. In this case, more than a hundred [...]