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Hello, i am looking for any information regarding a series of prints issued in 1989 By the Sunday Times / The Royal Photographic Society. This one- "Fruit and Vegetable Sellers" states that it is a 'modern calotype" and should not be displayed in direct sunlight.
Were these made from the original calotype negatives? Given out as a promotion? I am assuming that the 1989 date may have had something to do with the 150th anniversary of photography.
I haven't been able to find any information at all on these.
Any help would be greatly appreciated!
Thank You, David
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Pam Roberts, a former RPS Curator and a member of BPH, should be able to assist.
Thanks so much Michael.
I'm a new member here. Do you know the best way to ask her to view this discussion?
Michael Pritchard said:
Pam Roberts, a former RPS Curator and a member of BPH, should be able to assist.
Sorry for delayed reply. Been away. These modern calotypes were printed from an inter-negative made from the original Talbot negative by Mike Gray, then Curator of the Fox Talbot Museum in Lacock using, more or less, Talbot's own process. I can't remember now how many were sold - I think not many more than 100? My files on this 150th anniversary of the invention of photography project are now at the National Media Museum in Bradford.
David McGreevy said:
Thanks so much Michael.
I'm a new member here. Do you know the best way to ask her to view this discussion?
Michael Pritchard said:Pam Roberts, a former RPS Curator and a member of BPH, should be able to assist.
Thanks so much Pam, That's the information I needed.
Best, David
Pam Roberts said:
Sorry for delayed reply. Been away. These modern calotypes were printed from an inter-negative made from the original Talbot negative by Mike Gray, then Curator of the Fox Talbot Museum in Lacock using, more or less, Talbot's own process. I can't remember now how many were sold - I think not many more than 100? My files on this 150th anniversary of the invention of photography project are now at the National Media Museum in Bradford.
David McGreevy said:Thanks so much Michael.
I'm a new member here. Do you know the best way to ask her to view this discussion?
Michael Pritchard said:Pam Roberts, a former RPS Curator and a member of BPH, should be able to assist.
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
http://www.freewebs.com/jb3d/
Alfred Seaman and the Photographic Convention
Frederick Scott Archer
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