Chess and Jane O'Camb c. 1900

"Chess and Jane O'Camb" is a cyanotype photograph created by Agnes Winterbottom Cooney around 1900. The image captures a formal portrait of a couple, "Chess" and "Jane O'Camb", seated outside a house. The use of cyanotype, a photographic printing process that results in a blue image, was popular in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Cooney, born in 1878 and active until her death in 1940, was a talented photographer who documented her life and the people around her, making this portrait an intimate glimpse into the world of a family from that era. This intimate portrait, now part of the Minneapolis Institute of Art collection, exemplifies Cooney's skill in capturing nuanced details of the human experience.