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T. (homas) O’Conor Sloane II (or Jr.)

Was an American photographer involved in Alfred Steiglitz’s Photo-Secession photography movement.

Sloane’s photographic work appeared in the first exhibition of the movement held in New York City early in 1902 at the National Arts Club.

In the 1903 edition of the Photo-Secession publication Camera Work, Sloane is listed as an Associate of the Photo-Secession.

Sloane’s work appeared along with the influential photographers Alfred Steiglitz and Edward J. Steichen in the Chicago Photographic Salon of 1900, an exhibition held by the Chicago Society of Amateur Photographers and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Sloane's photograpy was exhibited in the Philadelphia Salon of 1900 and the London Salon of 1901.

His photographic work appeared in Photographic Times in 1900 and The Photo-Era Magazine in 1901.

More recently, Sloane's work appeared in Selections from the Photo-Secession. Catalogue 4. Exhibition catalogue. Photofind Gallery, Woodstock, NY, 1987.

As well, several of Sloane’s photographs have been sold on Sotheby’s and eBay in recent years.

A majority of the photographs taken of Thomas A. Edison in his later years were by Sloane.

Sloane began his professional career as a professor of electrical engineering, mathematics and physics at Columbia University.

Following a diving accident that left his eye-sight greatly diminished he was unable to continue his intensive research and teaching and turned to photography, which had been a life-long interest of his.

From a wealthy family, Sloane was not however a particularly gifted businessman. His interests were those of an academic and artistic inspiration and following several bad business deals and The Great Depression the family’s wealth was lost. Whereupon Sloane moved the family from their S. Orange, New Jersey estate to a brownstone in Brooklyn, NY.

Sloane continued with his work in photography, firmly establishing himself as a recognized figure within the photographic community and the art world.