Julius Herman Field (sometimes cited as Fields) was born February 19, 1869 in Waupun, Wisconsin and died January 14, 1936 in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

Field was a resident of Fayetteville from 1913-1936, years which encompassed most of his distinguished career as a photographer. He was associated with Fayetteville authors William Rheem Lighten, Charles J[oseph] Finger, and Lessie Stringfellow Read, providing illustrations for their work, book-jacket portraits, and other photographs, particularly of Lighton's Happy Hollow Farm. Field was also the official photographer for the 1919, 1920, 1921, 1922, and 1923 University of Arkansas yearbooks. His photographs, largely campus and country scenes, and a few Razorback Beauty portraits, are to be found in other yearbooks from 1915 to 1930. He illustrated the 1920 Chamber of Commerce publication, Fayetteville Arkansas, The Southern Gateway to the Ozarks. Several of his Fayetteville scenes and portraits, as well as a biographical sketch and a self-portrait, are included in William S[imeon] Campbell's 100 Years of Fayetteville, 1828-1928. Field's photographs, which won international and national attention, include: "The Sisters," winner of a bronze medal at the Exhibit of Photographic Arts and Industries (New York City, 1915), and "Southern Dream," a widely distributed photograph of Arkansas' Centennial Building at the St. Louis World's Fair. This building later became the Wolf House in Fayetteville.

Most of Field's work is distinguished by a soft lens technique and the use of natural early morning light.