Edith Hallett Bethune (1890–1970) was a Canadian amateur photographer known for her pictorialist photography.

Biography

Bethune was born in 1890 in

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, Nova Scotia. Bethune's interest in photography began with her taking casual snapshots around

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where her husband was working as a physician. She became involved with the Annapolis Valley Pictorialists and began manually coloring her photographs. She exhibited her photographs at the Canadian Salon of Photography. Her photographs appeared in '' Maclean's'' magazine (identified as Mrs. R.O. Bethune), '' 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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