Vintage Couple

Portrait of an unknown couple taken at the New Modern Studio (1333 14th Street, NW, Washington DC by African American photographer, Daniel Freeman.

About the photographer: Daniel Freeman, (1867 - 1926), was a painter and sought after society photographer and the first African American photographer to open his own studio in Washington D.C., where he taught photography and started the Washington Amateur Art Society. He also represented the District of Columbia in an exhibition at the 1895 Cotton States and International Exposition in Atlanta.

Source: "Reflections in Black: A History of Black Photographers 1840 to the Present; by Deborah Willis"