Mercedes de Cordoba by Joseph T. Keiley

Mercedes de Cordoba, a photo taken in 1902 by Joseph T. Keiley, part of the Online Photo Collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum.

Joseph T. Keiley, a practicing lawyer whose real passion was the camera. A close associate of Alfred Stieglitz, he was part of Stieglitz’s Photo Secession movement, formed in the early 1900s to promote recognition of photography as a legitimate art form. Keiley also worked with Stieglitz to devise a method for developing platinum prints using glycerin. (info provided by the Blackhawk Museum).

Mercedes de Cordoba was married to painter Arthur B. Carles and mother of painter Mercedes Matter (Still Life ca. 1938-40 below).

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