The Photographer Who Never Took a Picture: Portraits of Early 20th-Century Life from Ewing Galloway
Syracuse University Lubin House
November 8, 2004 - January 28, 2005

Ewing Galloway, known as "the photographer who never took a picture," was a Kentucky-bred lawyer, journalist, and farmer who, founded one of the nation's largest and most successful commercial stock photography agencies in New York City in 1920. From images of mining to mosquito control, rickshaws to rural gas stations, street gutters and irrigation canals to bridges and railway lines, Galloway seized upon the need to capture and market what remain for us today portrait windows onto the everyday life and achievements of the early 20th century.

This exhibition features 40 images of industry and daily life from the United States, Asia, and Native American reservations that Galloway marketed to newspapers and publishers around the globe. They were selected from a collection donated to the Special Collections Research Center at Syracuse University Library by Mark Jacobson of New York City in 1997. The collection consists of 200 large-format reproductions made from original glass-plate negatives J acobson acquired in the 1980s. For more information, the Special Collections web site can be reached at http://scrc.syr.edu.

Ewing Galloway Bio (PDF)
Exhibit Poster (PDF)