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had been sentenced to be executed. Hooper’s attempt to
achieve photographs of the execution by synchronizing
his shutter release to the order to fi re caused several
delays just as the fi ring squad was on the point of fi ring.
Witnesses felt this added unnecessarily to the emotional
anguish of the condemned and he was reprimanded for
inhumane treatment and suffered a temporary reduction
in pay grade. Burmah contains a photograph of Dacoit
prisoners but none of the scandalous photographs associ-
ated with the execution. A series of glass lantern slides
of the campaign, published with a pamphlet of descrip-
tive text, Lantern Readings illustrative of the Burmah
Expeditionary Force and the manners and customs of
the Burmese (1887) was offered through J. A. Laguard
of London. And the same year, again with J.A. Laguard,
he offered a set of lantern slides with text, Lantern Read-
ings: Tiger Shooting in India. He returned to England
upon retirement in 1896 and died there in 1912.
Kathleen Howe
See also: Military Photography; and Ethnography.
Further Reading
Falconer, John. “Willoughby Wallace Hooper: A Craze about Pho-
tography,” The Photographic Collector, IV (1984), 258–86.
HORETZKY, CHARLES GEORGE
(1838–1900)
Scottish survey photographer
Charles George Horetzky (Horetski), survey photog-
rapher (born Edinburgh, Scotland, 20 July 1838; died
20 April 1900 in Ontario). Educated in Scotland and
Belgium, he quit his studies early to go to Australia, then
Canada. From 1858 to 1869 he clerked for the Hudson’s
Bay Company in Canada, during which time he prob-
ably learned photography. In 1871 he was hired by the
Canadian Pacifi c Railway to take “views of objects
of interest illustrative of the physical features of the
country” through which the Railway might run. How-
ever, although he did not have the appropriate training,
Horetzky considered himself an engineer, not a mere
photographer; and when his advice on routes was not ac-
cepted published several books and pamphlets—in which
he ignores his photographic activities—condemning the
fi nal choice of routes. His fi nal years he engineered sew-
age systems for the government of Ontario.
Horetzky was a pioneer in using dry plate negatives
in exploration in Canada, but aside from the whole
plates themselves—some of which have been retouched
possibly because of defects—there is no record of his
problems or successes with them.
Hortezky’s importance as a photographer depends on
fewer than two hundred images made in western Canada
1871–1874 showing its topography and settlements.
Not only was he the fi rst photographer to visit what is
now northern Alberta and British Columbia and thus
provide the earliest photographic record of the area, but
images such as the railway surveyors at the elbow of the
Saskatchewan River have become icons of Canadian
photography.
Andrew RodgerHORN, WILHELM (VILÉM) (1809–1891)
Vilém Horn was born on April 10, 1809, in Boehmisch
Leipa (Česká Lípa), studied at the Viennese polytechnic
school, worked as a civil servant in several governmentalHooper, Colonel Willoughby
Wallace. Deserving objects of
gratuitous relief.
The J. Paul Getty Museum,
Los Angeles © The J. Paul
Getty Museum.