Vintage Photography,Ernest Knee,Edward Weston,Howard Hughes,Mabel Dodge Luhan,

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                                                            Southwest Photography
Featuring Ernest Knee [1907-1982]


     He was Howard Hughes' personal photographer from 1942 to 1949, and the first cameraman to record Angel Falls, the world's highest waterfall, in the remote jungles of Venezuela, when he worked for National Geographic.But of the thousands of photographs Knee took from 1930 to 1950 his heart, and eye, gravitated most to the majesty of New Mexico's skies, churches, villages and endless landscapes.
He became friends with many artists of the time,including Edward Weston, Gustave Baumann,
John Sloan,Will Shuster, Ansel Adams and many more. Through Mable Dodge Luhan, Knee was introduced to Georgia O'Keeffe when she arrived in N.M.,and he took photographs of a number of her paintings, as he did for other known artists.
In 1950 Ernests intrests changed and he put some 6000  8x10 inch, nitrite gel negatives (before the advent of plastic) on ice.
Finely in 1978 he decided to start printing his colection but after printing only a small part his health changed. The colection went on ice again for the next thirteen years, and in 1996 his son begain the timestaking process of cataloging, and making prints.
His son, Dana Knee, also a photographer, is producing a limited number of silver gel prints, editions 1/50.
The pictures in this gallery will change periodically, so visit often if you like what you see.

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  Church La Manga, N.M.                     Lake Chapala,Mex,                      Edward Weston                 Taos Pueblo Woman
                 1941                                             1941                                  1941                                                      1941

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    Canyon de Chelley                                   Taos Pueblo Church                                   Balcony, Mexico                          Laguna Pueblo Church
      Weavers 1940                                             1941                                                     1941                                             1939
 
 

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         Howard Hughes XF11                                       Agua Fria, Storm                                        San Miguel N.M.
                1946                                                                      1938                                                             1940
 
 

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                            Agua Fria, Church N.M.                          Velarde Church, N.M.                                     Tecolote Church, NM.
              1937                                                                   1941                                                                      1941

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    Mable Dodge Luhan                         Zozobra, Will Shuster                                Ranchos de Taos Church                             Edward Weston
           1936                                                                    1935                                                                 1937                                                       1941

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         Howard Hughes in XF11 1946                      Tony Luhan 1938                     Black Locas Trees in snow  1940
All prints are printed by Dana Knee
               They are produced from 8x10 inch negatives.
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