Information and discussion on all aspects of British photographic history
Time: February 9, 2011 from 1pm to 2pm
Location: Performance Area, Linen Hall Library
Street: 17 Donegall Square North
City/Town: Belfast BT1 5GB
Website or Map: http://www.linenhall.com
Phone: +44 (0)28 9032 1707
Event Type: talk
Organized By: Linen Hall Library
Latest Activity: Nov 29, 2010
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James Robinson, who ran a studio in Dublin, made legal history in 1859 when his stereoscopic pair The Death of Chatterton, modelled after the painting of the same name by Henry Wallis, was deemed to have infringed copyright law.
Talk by Dr Leon Litvack, Reader in Victorian Studies (School of English at QUB) and Linen Hall Library Governor. Examines a landmark copyright case with far reaching implications for photography and paintings.
ADMISSION FREE - ALL WELCOME
Victoria and Albert Museum's photography collection
National Science and Media Museum
RPS Journal 1853-2012 online and searchable
Photographic History Research Centre, Leicester
Birkbeck History and Theory of Photography Research Centre
William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné
British Photography. The Hyman Collection
The Press Photo History Project Mapping the photo agencies and photographers of Fleet Street and the UK
The correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot
Historic England Archive
UAL Photography and Photography and the Archive Research Centre
Royal Photographic Society's Historical Group
www.londonstereo.com London Stereoscopic Company / T. R. Williams
www.earlyphotography.co.uk British camera makers and companies
Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock.
National Portrait Gallery, London
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Alfred Seaman and the Photographic Convention
Frederick Scott Archer
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