Eugene Raymond Hutchinson

Eugene Raymond Hutchinson
Born	1880 near Tampa, Florida
Died	1957 Manhattan, New York
Occupation	Photographer
Spouse(s)	Carola Rust Zabel Hutchinson

Eugene Hutchinson (May 31, 1880 – April 28, 1957) was an American photographer. Like contemporaries Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen, Hutchinson first made his mark as a pictorialist, using lighting and darkroom techniques to transform his work into artistic images.

Based in Chicago from about 1910 to 1930, Hutchinson initially specialized in portrait work. winning favor most notably among leading lights in the world of literature, the arts and progressive politics, his clients including Rupert Brooke,Carl Sandburg,Edgar Lee Masters,Anna Pavlova,Emma Goldman, and William Jennings Bryan.

After moving to New York City during the Great Depression, Hutchinson perhaps for economic reasons turned his camera increasingly to industrial subjects, associating himself with Underwood & Underwood, the famous producer of stereoscopic images. His interest in photography as art, however, endured. It was reflected perhaps most dramatically in his “Eighty-Five Years,” a study of two, thin clasped hands against a black dress that was one of 155 prints selected by the Royal Photographic Society of London for a 1935 exhibit in which the National Academy of Design belatedly recognized photography as a field of art.

Probably born in Rockville, Indiana, Eugene was raised by a mother who was left a widow with three children before she was 30. As a teenager, he found his way to New York City where he apprenticed with a Broadway society photographer. One source indicates that his mentor was Joseph Hall. Another states that it was “Histead.”

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