born June 26, 1853, London, Eng.
died June 24, 1943, London
British photographer.
He first attracted attention as a popular London bookseller and champion of the work of George Bernard Shaw and Aubrey Beardsley . Around 1890 he began to photograph English and French cathedrals, and from 1898 he devoted himself exclusively to photography. His belief that only static views of idealized beauty were worth photographing clashed with the early 20th-century tendency to photograph fleeting images, but his architectural photographs are considered among the world's finest.