Barnett M. Clinedinst
Barnett McFee Clinedinst, Sr. (circa 1836 – 1904) was an American photographer and inventor.[1] He invented the viewfinder and the mirror-and-prism "reflex" arrangement for which the single-lens reflex camera is named.[2]
Biography
He was born around 1836 in Rockbridge County, Virginia.[note 1][3] He was a bugler during the American Civil War for Stonewall Jackson.[1]
He died in 1904.
Children
- Barnett McFee Clinedinst, Jr., who served as official White House portrait photographer for the Presidential administrations of Theodore Roosevelt, William Howard Taft, and Woodrow Wilson.[2][1]
- Benjamin West Clinedinst, a painter.[4]
References
- 1 2 3 "B. M'F. Clinedinst, Photographer, 90. He Took Camera Portraits of Roosevelt, McKinley and Taft. Succumbs in Florida Home". New York Times. March 18, 1953. Retrieved 2015-01-09.
He was the son of the late Barnett Clinedinst, and early photographer who was a bugler with the Confederate Army of General Thomas (Stonewall) Jackson, and the late Mrs. Caroline South Clinedinst. ...
- 1 2 Barnett M. Clinedinst at the Camera Heritage Museum; published no later than April 15, 2011 (date of the earliest version on archive.org); retrieved December 3, 2014
- ↑ Clinedinst's invention changed photography, by Charles Culbertson, at the News Leader (archived at GlobalPhotographyNews); published November 2, 2013; retrieved December 3, 2014
- ↑ Paintings and Sculpture in the Collection of the National Academy of Design: 1826-1925, edited by David Bernard Dearinger; published 2004 by Hudson Hills Press (via Google Books)
Notes
- ↑ Sources vary as to the exact year: the News-Leader says 1836, the New York Public Library says "ca. 1837", and the Camera Heritage Museum says "1838 abt".
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