About This Image

La Madeline can be seen in the center distance. Signed in ink on image.By 1919 William Odiorne (1881 - 1978) had worked as a photographer in three major cities, Boston, Chicago and New York. In Chicago, he worked for the well-known pictorialist Eugene Hutchinson. He also lived in Paris from 1924 until about 1930. His Paris images are some of his most sought-after photographs. He returned to New York City in 1932 and worked as a photographer for the Metropolitan Museum of Art and had a commercial studio. After WWII, he moved to San Francisco and then in the mid-1950s to Los Angeles where he made a living as a retoucher for a Beverly Hills studio. He retired in 1977.

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