"My energies for near a lifetime have been used almost entirely to win such prominence as I could in outdoor photography." H. H. Bennett

Henry Hamilton Bennett (1843 1908) became a celebrated photographer in the half-century following the American Civil War. Bennett is admired for his superb depictions of dramatic landscapes of the Dells of the Wisconsin River and also for his many technical innovations in photography, including a stop-action shutter and a revolving solar printing house that is now housed at the Smithsonian Institution. With his instantaneous shutter, he gained...