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Comment by James Morley on January 9, 2012 at 15:03

Hi, I just posted on the main discussion a request for information about Ealing photographers, but I now realise it would probably be better placed here.  See http://britishphotohistory.ning.com/forum/topics/reasearching-early... and my blog post and example images at http://www.whatsthatpicture.com/2012/01/early-ealing-studios-photog...

Ron, I was about to drop you an email about this ...!

Comment by Jimmy Leiderman on November 29, 2011 at 23:47

Glad to be here and hope to contribute.

Comment by Marcel Safier on November 28, 2011 at 21:27

Anne McCauley's two books "A.A.E. Disderi and the Carte de Visite Portrait Photograph" from 1985 and "Industrial Madness: Commercial Photography in Paris, 1848-1871" from 1994, both published by Yale Univ Press are excellent resources for carte de visite history.

Comment by Marcel Safier on November 22, 2011 at 13:37

Three of the best websites for regional photographic history in England are Brett Payne's Photographers & Photographic Studios in Derbyshire freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~brett/photos/dbyphotos.html and Dave Simkin's Brighton Photographers 1841-1910 www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk/Brighton-Photographers.htm and Sussex PhotoHistory www.photohistory-sussex.co.uk/index.htm. All three sites feature plenty of carte de visite and cabinet photo scans and details of photographers that made them. Cheers! Marcel

Comment by Marcel Safier on November 21, 2011 at 21:24

A new biography of cdv photographer Aaron Vandyke by Ron Cosens has just been published on line at www.cartedevisite.co.uk/photographers-category/biographies/aaron-va.... Aaron was the partner in Vandyke and Brown of Liverpool. The article features 27 scanned examples of cdvs from his studios.

Comment by Ron Cosens on November 21, 2011 at 20:42

Sebastion - I have two or three Japanese portrait cdv from Nagasaki that you can have gratis if you want them.  Ron

Comment by Marcel Safier on November 19, 2011 at 6:48

The history of photography in Edinburgh with a list of photographers is covered on Pete Stubb's site Edinphoto www.edinphoto.org.uk. The site has stimulated contact and input from a number of cdv photographer's relations. 19th century photographers of Fife are listed on the Fife Family History Society's website: http://www.fifefhs.org/Records/photographers.htm.

Comment by Marcel Safier on November 17, 2011 at 15:39

Thanks Sebastian. I have found Japanese cdvs hard to source from Australia and have just a few in my collection. I have a number of reference works on Japanese photography, the ones covering the cdv era being, "History of Japanese Photography" by Anne Wilkes Tucker et al and, "Early Japanese Images", "Old Japanese Photographs. Collector's Data Guide" and "Photography in Japan 1853-1912" all by Terry Bennett (who will be visiting Australian soon). I think the latter of Terry's books gives the best coverage on cdvs. Are their any other suggested titles that cover the history of the cdv in Japan? Cheers! Marcel

Comment by Sebastian Dobson on November 17, 2011 at 10:11

Thanks for invitation Marcel! I have always been interested in the cdv format, especially in relation to its introduction and circulation in nineteenth-century Japan.

Comment by Marcel Safier on November 17, 2011 at 10:05

South African photographers of the 19th Century are detailed on Heather McAllister's site http://ancestry24.com/photographers-south-africa. Some of this info correlates closely with research by Dr. Arthur Bensusan whose collection of photographica is held at the Bensusan Museum of Photography in Johannesburg. I have substantially augmented the list with my own research but do not have permission to place it on line. I welcome enquiries however. I have been corresponding with Carol Hardijzer of Pretoria on this research. Cheers! Marcel

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