Portrait de William James Stillman
Photo: Rossetti, Dante Gabriel, 1828-1882, artist. Photograph of charcoal drawing(?) by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, dated 1870. · Wikimedia Commons

Auteur

William James Stillman

Artiste américain

Naissance
1 juin 1828, Schenectady
Décès
6 juillet 1901, Surrey
Nationalité
États-Unis
Profession
Artiste peintre, photographe, journaliste, diplomate et écrivain ou écrivaine

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William James Stillman (June 1, 1828 – July 6, 1901) was an American journalist, diplomat, author, historian, and photographer. Educated as an artist, Stillman subsequently converted to the profession of journalism, working primarily as a war correspondent in Crete and the Balkans, where he served as his own photographer. For a time, he also served as United States consul in Rome, and afterward in Crete during the Cretan insurrections. He helped to train the young Arthur Evans as a war correspondent in the Balkans, and remained a lifelong friend and confidant of Evans. Later in life, he seriously considered taking over the excavation at Knossos from Minos Kalokairinos, who had been stopped from further excavation by the Cretan Assembly; he was, however, prevented from pursuing that goal further by a failure to obtain a firman, or permission, to excavate. Stillman wrote several books, one of which, his Autobiography of a Journalist, suggests that he viewed himself primarily as a writer.

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