OHV - John Dick Portrait

John Dick Portrait

Digitally restored photo printed on metal, 8" wide x 10" high, ready to hang.  

Hired as DuPont’s first photographer, John Dick spent months documenting DuPont’s collaboration with the United States government at various location throughout the country to supply gunpowder during WWI. One of the places he spent a lot of time was Jacksonville, where he captured hundreds of photographs of the evolution of a village and its mainstay, the gunpowder plant. Using what was known as a Cirkut camera, he photographed everything from employees to enormous operating equipment to sweeping landscapes. The Cirkut camera, patented in 1904, used large format film, ranging in width from 5" to 16" and can produce a 360-degree photograph measuring up to 20 feet long. Both the camera and the film rotated on a special tripod during the exposure. Lou Cretia Owen, a gunpowder plant worker wrote the following observation in her diary, “He has a camera that produces a picture 16 inches in height and it revolves like a machine gun and shoots any scene that attracts him.”

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