28 Facts About Carlo Gentile

Carlo Gentile, known professionally in his lifetime as Charles Gentile, was a 19th-century Italian-American photographer.

Carlo Gentile continued the pursuit of his photographic career in Chicago, while publishing a series of newspapers along with maintaining a weekly magazine.

Carlo Gentile voyaged to Australia, the Caribbean, and South America, before residing for a short period in San Francisco.

Carlo Gentile wintered back home in Victoria, and in March 1866 toured parts of Washington Territory with Governor William Pickering In Seattle, he took the earliest known views of that city.

Carlo Gentile made plans to tour Europe with his pictures, and he hired a fellow photographer, Noah Shakespeare, to conduct business in his absence.

Carlo Gentile eventually returned to Arizona in 1870 or 1871.

Carlo Gentile briefly had studios in Tucson and Adamsville, now a ghost town.

At the Eighth Industrial Exhibition of the Mechanics' Institute, held at San Francisco in September 1871, Carlo Gentile exhibited a selection of his Arizona photographs and Indian clothing.

At Adamsville, two miles west of his residence in Florence, Carlo Gentile purchased from two Pima warriors a young Yavapai boy named Wassaja, paying 30 silver dollars for him.

Carlo Gentile was later billed as "the young Apache captive, Azteka".

Carlo Gentile had a promotional role, selling carte-de-visites of the cast members.

Carlo Gentile meanwhile, had begun taking stereoviews of famous Chicago buildings and interiors.

In September 1877, The Philadelphia Photographer published a composite photograph by Carlo Gentile based on the carbon process, depicting Lieutenant-General Philip Sheridan and his staff.

Carlo Gentile exhibited his works in New York in early 1877, winning the highest award.

Apparently Carlo Gentile had an art and photography store which was destroyed in a fire, In 1878, the pair traveled to Canada and then to Boston, returning to Chicago late that year.

Carlo Gentile operated a succession of photographic studios in Chicago under his own name until 1883, and then with partner Zachary Taylor until 1885.

Carlo Gentile joined with other Chicago photographers in 1880 for the founding of the Photographers' Association of America, serving as vice-president.

In 1884, Carlo Gentile purchased The Eye magazine, and moved it to Chicago, renaming it to The Photographic Eye, and the Eye, and became its editor.

Continually experimenting with new photographic methods, Carlo Gentile was becoming known nationally.

Carlo Gentile completed a report on the status of photography in 1884 for the prestigious Photographers' Association of America.

In 1885, Carlo Gentile discontinued his Chicago studios for about a year, and traveled to demonstrate the carbon process.

In 1877, Carlo Gentile had a strong hand in organizing the Great Convention of American and Canadian Photography held in Chicago.

Carlo Gentile began a third paper, La Colonia, orientated to the local Italian community of Chicago, and it lasted from 1889 to 1892.

Carlo Gentile pressed for a separate building of photography at the upcoming 1893 World's Fair, but photography was only allowed its own space.

Carlo Gentile was now in financial straits, and suffering emotional and physical distress from the effects of Bright's disease, a kidney condition.

Carlo Gentile traveled to Mineral Springs, Indiana, but it was too late.

Carlo Gentile died on 27 October 1893, leaving behind a wife and a young son.

Carlo Gentile was buried in the lot of the Chicago Press Club at Mount Hope Cemetery in Chicago.