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E. O. HOPPE - Self Potrait

“E.O. Hoppé uniquely spanned two crucial eras in twentieth-century
history and photography: the Edwardian and the Modern.”

- Colin Westerbeck
Director, California Museum of Photography, Riverside

E.O. Hoppé was one of the most renowned portrait photographers of his day, as well as a brilliant landscape and travel photographer. His strikingly modernist portraits describe a virtual Who’s Who of important personalities in the arts, literature, and politics in Great Britain and the US between the wars. Among the hundreds of well-known figures he photographed were George Bernard Shaw, H.G. Wells, A.A. Milne, T.S. Eliot, G.K. Chesterton, Leon Bakst, Vaslav Nijinsky and the dancers of the Ballets Russes, and Queen Mary, King George, and members of the Royal Family.

The prototypical celebrity photographer, his popularity at the time can only be compared to that of celebrity photographers of the late twentieth century like Richard Avedon or Irving Penn. In 1945 Cecil Beaton wrote an introduction to Hoppé’s autobiography, One Hundred Thousand Exposures, and called him simply “The Master.” And yet, until well after his death at 94 in 1972, E.O. Hoppé’s extraordinary photographic achievement was primarily known and understood by a handful of museum curators, collectors, and scholars of photography. Only recently has his place in the history of photography begun to be fully appreciated, and, with this recognition, a renaissance of interest in his art has finally commenced.

courtesy of E.O. HOPPE

visit www.eohoppe.com to explore more of his works