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"T. Eakins who loved the one-eyed camera. (I have never seen one color sketch of his done to use with the photos.)"
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Hi Tim,
From my understanding, photography became a more important tool to Eakins when the Pennslyvania Academy of Art (where he taught) forbade him from having his students model for each other. He then went "off campus" (camera as a medium to capture form in nature) for preliminary studies. Because of his passionate work from the human form, he was in fact fired, amid rumors of incest and bestiality. Source:
Thomas Eakins, ed. by Darrel Sewell, Yale University Press.
I've always seen Eakins as a true naturalist, insisting on life classes, even anatomical dissection.