Abstract
Abstract In spite of an international reputation as an art photographer during the first half of the twentieth century, Jane Reece of Dayton, Ohio was and remains something of a mystery. Born in rural north-western Ohio in the late 1860s, Reece never revealed her true age, and existing records are contradictory. As a child Reece dreamed of a career in the arts, trying her skill at music, sketching, and painting, never realizing that she was destined to become famous in the youngest art: photography. Reece did not actually become interested in photography until 1903, while recuperating from spinal meningitis in Southern Pines, North Carolina. Her illness had caused respiratory problems which were aggravated by turpentine fumes, forcing her to give up painting. Luckily, a medical attendant arranged for Reece to borrow a camera, and a forty-year love affair was born.1
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