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David Bachrach (1845-1921), c. 1900, by Ephraim Keyser (1850-1937).
In 1863, when he was eighteen years old David Bachrach photographed Abraham Lincoln delivering the Gettysburg address, the only known photograph of Lincoln at his historic event. Bachrach chose to be a photographer after being apprenticed to ambrotypist Robert Vinton Lansdale. According to Bachrach, this historic moment at Gettysburg determined his life's work as a portrait photographer. In 1877, he opened his own studio in Baltimore. Here he experimented with many techniques, including the application of photographs on canvas with Woodward's solar camera. His brother-in-law, well-known artist Ephraim Keyser, completed this sculptural image of Bachrach. |