In this episode of the Fine Art Photography Podcast, we discuss photographer W.S. Lively, who started the second photography school ever in the United States -- and he did it in a small Tennessee town -- and it was successful! But he gained notoriety for making three 60-inch prints from glass-plate negatives - the first time it had ever been done.

Sources and Links

Facebook: W.S.Lively & The Southern School of Photography

https://www.facebook.com/southernschoolofphotography/photos

Florence Rice at Southern School of Photography

https://bobgathany.photoshelter.com/image/I0000kbRBCOAaDSo

Florence Rice, Photo of Watkins Glen, NY

https://bobgathany.photoshelter.com/gallery-image/Florence-Harry-Rice-Photos-Galeton-Ulysses-PA-Nyack-NY/G0000aNQd8rnSXSU/I0000fRbG_E9pN2w

Florence Rice, Photographs

https://bobgathany.photoshelter.com/gallery/Florence-Harry-Rice-Photos-Galeton-Ulysses-PA-Nyack-NY/G0000aNQd8rnSXSU

Historical Marker Database

https://www.hmdb.org/m.asp?m=60404

Photo-Era: The American Journal of Photography, page 93, January 1913

https://www.google.com/books/edition/Photo_Era_Magazine_the_American_Journal/IcM6AQAAMAAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=did+african+american+students+attend+the+southern+school+of+photography+in+McMinnville%3F&pg=PA94&printsec=frontcover

Tennessee Crossroads feature of the Southern Museum and Galleries

https://youtu.be/1unPgFLV2cU