Encampment, Wyoming: Selections from the Lora Webb Nichols Archive 1899-1948
Talk with Nicole Jean Hill
Thursday, December 10, 2020
6:00 - 7:30 PM PST
On December 10th SF Camerawork hosted a conversation with artist and curator Nicole Jean Hill to speak about the photography archive of a Wyoming frontierswoman, entrepreneur, homemaker and image-maker, Lora Webb Nichols (1883-1962). Nichols created and collected an archive of approximately 24,000 negatives in the mining town of Encampment. As early as 1906, Nichols was working for hire as a photographer for industrial documentation and family portraits, developing and printing from a darkroom she fashioned in the home she shared with her husband and their children. In 1925, Nichols established the Rocky Mountain Studio, a photography and photofinishing service, which was a focal point of the town throughout the 1920s and 1930s. A book of highlights from the Lora Webb Nichols archive has recently been released by FW Books, Amsterdam and features Nichols’ own work and the images by amateur photographers she collected.
Nicole Jean Hills’s book Encampment, Wyoming: Selections from the Lora Webb Nichols Archive 1899-1948 is featured in our Book & Zine Fair.
Lora Webb Nichols Archive, Nida Deal, Sis Heaton, Ruth Dunbar, and Nina Platte, 1913
ABOUT NICOLE JEAN HILL
Nicole Jean Hill, originally from Toledo, Ohio, is an artist, photographer and educator. Her work has been exhibited throughout the U.S., Europe, Canada and Australia. She currently resides in Eureka, California and is a Professor of Art at Humboldt State University.
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