"Yes, you're right and the NT research is a good step to identify those people and properties, and to surface some of the stories that help explain how they came to be built. In Lacock Abbey's case the building has a much older…"
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"Probably every stately home built or occupied in the UK, between 1600 and 1850 has some slavery link if one delved deep enough. "
Lacock Abbey has slavery link
The National Trust has released an Interim Report on the Connections between Colonialism and Properties now in the Care of the National Trust, Including Links with Historic Slavery which surveys its properties and highlights links between the property, past owners and slavery and colonialism. Lacock Abbey, one of photography's most important historical sites, is…See More
"I am so sorry to learn this news about Roger. In the five years I have been a Volunteer at Lacock and have known him, I have always learned something new and interesting about things photographic and also enjoyed his many and varied exhibitions. He…"
"Hi, Georgina. I think that this must refer to printing rather than photography.
At the August 1860 session of the Photographic Society G H Babcock described in some detail machinery for printing 12,000 photographs an hour, invented by Charles…"
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Lacock Abbey has slavery link
The National Trust has released an Interim Report on the Connections between Colonialism and Properties now in the Care of the National Trust, Including Links with Historic Slavery which surveys its properties and highlights links between the property, past owners and slavery and colonialism. Lacock Abbey, one of photography's most…
Posted on September 27, 2020 at 17:30 — 2 Comments
Publication: Making Photographs in Platinum and Palladium with the Contemporary Printing-out Process
Platinotype: Making Photographs in Platinum and Palladium with the Contemporary Printing-out Process describes the mechanisms and chemistry of platinum/palladium printing in safe and practical ways. Clearly presented formulae allow the printer to work with platinum, palladium, or varying combinations of both. The printed-out image…
Posted on September 20, 2020 at 10:17
Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards 2020 - winners announced
The Kraszna-Krausz Foundation has announced the two winners of its annual Photography and Moving Image Book Awards. Chicago-based artist LaToya Ruby Frazier has won the Photography Book Award for her eponymous book LaToya Ruby Frazier (Mousse Publishing & Mudam Luxembourg), which brings together three photographic series that comment on racial…
Posted on September 20, 2020 at 10:00
Auction: Iain Macmillan's Hasselblad camera / 13 October 2020
The Hasselblad camera used by Iain Macmillan (1938-2006) to photograph The Beatles' 1969 Abbey Road album cover is being offered for auction by Bonhams on 13 October 2020. The Hasseblad 500C camera comes with its Zeiss Planar 80mm /2.8 lens and the viewfinder screen is still marked up with lines outlining the Abbey Road crossing.
Accompanying the lot…
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Publication: How Change Happens: Photography, Education and Society
There was a paradigm shift in the way photography was taught in Britain in the 1960/70s. In How Change Happens: Photography Education and Society May McWilliams uses four colleges - Derby College/Trent Poly, Newport College, London College of Printing, Regent Street Polytechnic - as case studies to illustrate the change. Oral history accounts…
Posted on September 18, 2020 at 12:00
Comment Wall (25 comments)
- At 15:45 on August 3, 2017,
Jack leonard Gordon said…
Don't you take any criticism on board. The present set up casts no credit on this organisation or myself.
It may be that somewhere on this site you have left some helpful instructions.If so I can't see it.
My telephone number is 020 8908 5124.
Regards
Jack Gordon
- At 17:46 on April 21, 2017,
jack leonard gordon said…
I am upset by the effects of my tiny pictures on my four entries .
Should I withdraw them as a whole and start again?
If so how do cancel anything of my submissions?
Regards,
Jack Leonard Gordon
- At 5:52 on November 15, 2016,
Will Allen said…
The International Directory of Photo Historians has settled in a new home with hopes of stability in location, format, and function. The change coincides with the retirement from teaching of William Allen. At http://classyarts.com/photohistorians/photohistorians.php one may search the directory, add and edit one's entry, and communicate with other historians. The new directory protects the privacy of contact information (including email addresses) for participants. I hope that you and your colleagues will share this information.
- At 22:41 on January 5, 2016,
David McGreevy said…
Dear Michael,
First, let me thank you for the BPH site, it has proven to be an invaluable resource for an American collector of British Photographs, and I have "met" many experienced and generous experts here.
I am however, a bit alarmed, do the "major changes" mentioned in your weekly update indicate that the site will soon be subscription based? That is certainly the impression I got. It would be such a shame after Luminous Lint changed into a monetized site, rather than an open and free exchange of ideas and knowledge.
Respectfully,
David McGreevy
- At 11:52 on December 30, 2013,
Richard Sambrook said…
Many thanks Michael - I'm delighted to have access to such a great site and resource. Is the Giles Duley talk open to the public? I'd love to come along if so. I am now Professor at the School of Journalism at Cardiff University. Until his recent retirement Daniel Meadows led our work on documentary photography - I'm looking for ways to continue to keep the School actively engaged...Best, Richard
- At 19:09 on May 27, 2013,
Dear Mr. Pritchard,
I am looking for information about the beginings of Automat Photography. In particular about the first who was take a British Patent E.J. Ball 16,136. Nov. 23, 1887: Automatic coin-freed apparatus.(“Patents for Inventions vol. II, Abridgments of Specifications, class 98, Photography Great Britain Patent Office, Reprint Edition 1979 Arno Press, A New York Times Company”).
This is all the information that I have about this inventor. I have also a patent from 1900 of the United States and that I believe is attached to the same inventor US657505%5B1%5D.pdf
Do you know more information about this inventor.
Thank you very much.
- At 16:05 on September 24, 2012,
Tom Ruffles PhD, ARPS said…
Thanks for the comment on the Turner post, Michael - I've amended it accordingly.
- At 13:33 on July 6, 2012,
Tony Hilton said…
Hi Michael,
It was lovely to catch up briefly in May. Sorry it was all so rushed.
You are doing a great job here ... and elsewhere! Well done! Keep it up
Tony Hilton
- At 0:59 on May 15, 2012,
Hallo Michael, Thanks for the regular Newsletter. Is there any way of recalling earlier versions? A recent issue had a review of the Princeton University book by Roger Taylor on Lewis Carroll and I would be interested in reading it again. Thanks.
- At 9:19 on October 16, 2011,
- Thanks for the suggestions. I succesfully completed the dissertation earlier in the year and I was pleased with the grade and feedback.
Would you be interested in having a copy of the work? Perhaps I could publish it online if it was felt to be of interest.
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