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Carl Paul Goerz passed away in January 1923. Three
years later, his company was one of four to form Zeiss-
Ikon. In the year of Goerz’ death a cheap box camera
was launched under the brand name Tengor which was
the fi rst one to be completely transferred into the new
company’s name—and produced until the late 1950s.
Other Goerz products are more diffi cult to trace but
still earn a high reputation for both the company and
its founder for being at the very top of industrial quality
and technical innovation for their time.
Rolf Sachsse
Biography
Carl Paul Goerz, born in Brandenburg, Havel, July 21,
- Apprentice as merchant in Emil Busch’s Company
of Optical Instruments at Rathenow, Berlin, 1870–74.
Sales agent for German optical and mechanical instru-
ments companies in Europe, mainly in Paris; several
years as participant in the company of Eugen Kraus,
Paris, 1875–86. Return to Germany and opening of a
wholesale agency for optical instruments and drawing
aids in Berlin-Friedenau, 1886-88. Producer of cameras
and lenses in his own company from 1888. Opening of
subsidiary companies in the United States, the United
Kingdom, France, and Italy, 1905-09. Died in Berlin,
January 14, 1923. The company was one of four to form
the Zeiss-Ikon Company in 1926. Since then the brand
name Goerz has been used for several venues of minor
importance.
See also: Busch, Friedrich Emil; and Daguerreotype.
Further Reading
Festschrift, hg. von der Optischen Anstalt C.P., Goerz Akt.-Ges.
Berlin-Friedenau anlässlich der Feier ihres 25jährigen Beste-
hens 1886–1911, Berlin 1911.
Gubas, Larry, “Carl Paul Goerz“ in Zeiss Historica, Spring
2001.
Hansen, Fritz, “Deutsche Pioniere der Photographie: Carl Paul
Goerz“ in Photographische Chronik 49.1942.25.197–198.
Schmidt, Hans, Vorträge über Photographische Optik, Halle:
Knapp 1917.
GOLDENSKY, ELIAS (1867–1943)
American photographer
Elias Goldensky built his reputation as one of America’s
eminent portrait photographers by producing artistic
prints that were as individualized as his sitters, many of
whom were celebrities. Born on September 9, 1867 in
Ukraine to a Russifi ed Jewish family, his father was an
oculist and photographer. Immigrating to Philadelphia,
Pennsylvania in 1891, Goldensky opened his fi rst por-
trait studio in 1895. He briefl y associated with fellow
Pictorialists Alfred Stieglitz and F. Holland Day after
exhibiting work at the National Academy of Design in
New York and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine
Arts in Philadelphia in 1898. An early practitioner of
color photography, Goldensky used the gum bichromate
process and different papers to lend color and texture
to his personalized prints, characterized by soft tones
and intimately depicted sitters. Recognized as both a
commercial and artistic photographer, he received nu-
merous international awards and widely demonstrated
and lectured on his techniques. Goldensky served on
the board of directors of the American Museum of
Photography and was a member of the Photographic
Society of Philadelphia, the Camera Club of New York,
and the Salon Club of America. He died in Philadelphia
on March 10, 1943. The George Eastman House holds
the largest collection of his work.
Charlene PeacockGONNET, ESTEBAN (1830–1868)
French surveyor and photographer
This French man appeared in Argentina by 1858, receiv-
ing a license of surveyor by 1859. In 1864 he announced
at the newspapers his photographic activity from a studio
in downtown Buenos Aires.
During the rest of his short life he worked both as
photographer and surveyor.
His studio Fotografía de Mayo was located at 25 de
Mayo street, where he make portraits. He also produced
very early albums of views from Buenos Aires urban
and rural views, titled “Recuerdos de Buenos Aires” and
“Recuerdos de la campaña de Buenos Aires.”
His activity as surveyor gave him the opportunity
to visit estancias, being an early the recorder of rural
scenes. He traveled along a large part of province of
Buenos Aires, working in many small cities.
He passed away very young, in 1868.
All known production is in albumen prints, never
signing them, except by his rubber stamp “Fotografía
de Mayo.”
Many of his early photo historical studies attributed
wrongly to Benito Panunzi.
Roberto FerrariGOOD, FRANK MASON (1839–1928)
English photographer
Good was a professional photographer who lived at
Hartley Wintney in Hampshire. He joined the Photo-
graphic Society of London in 1864 and showed several
landscape studies at that year’s annual exhibition. Most
of the works exhibited were made in the southern Eng-
lish counties of Hampshire, Surrey, Dorset and Devon.
Along with his landscapes he also produced fl ower