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Edith Hallett Bethune (1890–1970) was a Canadian amateur photographer known for her pictorialist photography.

Biography

Bethune was born 3 Nov 1890 in D'Escousse, Nova Scotia.

Bethune's interest in photography began with her taking casual snapshots around Berwick, Nova Scotia where her husband was working as a physician. She became involved with the Annapolis Valley Pictorialists and began manually coloring her photographs. She exhibited her photographs at the Canadian Salon of Photography. Her photographs appeared in Maclean's magazine (identified as Mrs. R.O. Bethune), The Camera magazine, American Photography magazine, the American Annual of Photography, and Photo-Era magazine. She won the Kodak Competition twice, in 1929 and 1931.

In 1933 Bethune won the Diploma for Exceptional Photographic Art at the Century of Progress exhibition in Chicago.

Bethune was disabled by a stroke in 1947. She died in Berwick in 1970.

References

1. ^ Koltun ed., Lilly (1984). Private Realms of Light: Amateur Photography in Canada 1839-1940. Fitzhenry and Whiteside. p. 135. ISBN 0889027447. {{cite book}}: |last1= has generic name (help)
2. ^ "Bethune, Edith Hallett". Artist Database. Canadian Women Artists History Initiative. Retrieved 20 March 2019.
3. "MacLeans Holiday Snapshot Album". Maclean's. XLIV (11): 21. 1 June 1931. Retrieved 1 April 2019.
4. Belton, Robert James (2001). Sights of Resistance: Approaches to Canadian Visual Culture. University of Calgary Press. p. 99. ISBN 1552380114.

• 1890 births
• 1970 deaths
• Canadian women artists
• Canadian women photographers