14 Facts About Edward Bierstadt

Edward Bierstadt was a photographer of portraits and landscapes as well as an engraver and a pioneer of color photography in the United States.

Edward Bierstadt was the son of Henry Bierstadt, a cooper, and Christiana Bierstadt.

Edward Bierstadt produced stereoscopic images for Bierstadt Brothers, together with his other older brother Charles Bierstadt.

Edward Bierstadt was hired by William West Durant to take a series of photos for an advertising brochure entitled The Adirondacks, Artotype Views Among the Mountains and Lakes of the North Woods to publicize Blue Mountain Lake and Raquette Lake in the Adirondacks.

Edward Bierstadt founded the Photo-Plate Printing Company in 1870, which produced collotype prints for several significant book illustrations.

Edward Bierstadt was considered one of the best printers in the United States.

Edward Bierstadt held an 1876 patent for an improvement to the stereoscope.

Edward Bierstadt mainly used the subtractive method to take color photographs and subsequently printed his results.

In November 1877, Edward Bierstadt exhibited three color Albertype prints at the American Institute in New York City.

Edward Bierstadt said that he made color portraits as early as July 1890, which is the earliest claim for a color photographic portrait.

Edward Bierstadt first exhibited color portraits in 1892 and continued to do so throughout the 1890s.

Edward Bierstadt's only surviving color portrait is that of his younger brother, Albert Edward Bierstadt.

In collaboration with Dr Edward Bierstadt Leaming at Columbia College, he produced color photographs of microscopic specimens in 1895 and 1896.

In 1904, when Edward Bierstadt turned 80, he was still engaged in researching color photography.