About Edith Hallett Bethune
Lived 1890 – 1970 (aged 79–80). Edith Hallett Bethune was a Canadian photographer.
Edith Hallett Bethune (1890–1970) was a Canadian amateur photographer known for her pictorialist photography.
Bethune's interest in photography began with her taking casual snapshots around Berwick, Nova Scotia where her husband was working as a physician. The Camera magazine, American Photography magazine, the American Annual of Photography, and Photo-Era magazine. She won the Kodak Competition twice, in 1929 and 1931.
In 1933, Bethune won the Diploma for Exceptional Photographic Art at the Century of Progress exhibition in Chicago.
Bethune was disabled by a stroke in 1947. She died in Berwick in 1970.
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Who was Edith Hallett Bethune?
Canadian photographer
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Edith Hallett Bethune was born in 1890 in D'Escousse, Nova Scotia.
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Edith Hallett Bethune died in 1970 in Nova Scotia.
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Edith Hallett Bethune was a photographer.
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Edith Hallett Bethune was Canadian.
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