Industry -- Watertown, Mass.

Industry -- Watertown, Mass.

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Bacharach building, built by the Stanley Brothers, on the Charles River. Bacharach Studios is widely believed to be the oldest continuously operating photo studio in the world. Bacharach Studio had forty-eight locations throughout the United States at its height in 1929. David Bacharach (1845-1921) was an American commercial photographer based in Baltimore, Maryland. He made contributions to the technical, artistic, and professional advancements in the field as well as being the founder of a photographic dynasty that became a unique institution in the United States. He became the spokesman for photographers at the turn of the 20th century who were confronted with a welter of technical and artistic choices. He regularly published in the leading photographic journals of the time and experimented with self-toning papers. He developed the first practical process for photographic printing on canvas, and a forerunner of the present-day photoengraving system. Bacharach, Inc., which was founded in 1910 and is still headed by the Bacharach family, had studios in all the major east coast cities. The Bacharach's, beginning with David, established the idea of "official portraiture," becoming the leading portrait photographers in the United States well into the 1960. Louis Fabian Bacharach, Jr. (April 9, 1917 -- February 26, 2010) introduced color photography to Bacharach Studios during the 1950s, and switched the studios completely to color images during the 1970s. He was an American photographer, known for portraits of celebrities, politicians, presidents and other prominent individuals.

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