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This albumen print is a portrait of captain WH Barten. Identified on a separate paper.
Does someone know more about this type of uniform? I bought it with UK provenance.
Print ca. 16 x 12,8 cm.
ContinuePosted on September 11, 2019 at 19:00 — 6 Comments
Until now, the Netherlands lacked a meeting point for Vintage Photography.
Inspired by the famous Frido Troost (1960-2013), whose Institute of Concrete Matter, offered a space where collectors, curators and photographers could meet and have extraordinary encounters and dialogues on photography, two curators and three collectors…
ContinuePosted on September 11, 2019 at 13:00
A rare carte de visite of Sir John Herschel (1792-1871) by Julia Margaret Cameron (Cox & Ford no. 674). Photographed 4-7 April 1867.
Herschel was a famous astronomer and the inventor of the cyanotype.
With the copyright of Cameron under the print. Also written in fountain pen in an unknown hand 'Sir John Herschel, Célèbre astronome Anglais'…
Posted on April 30, 2019 at 12:30
Where can I find more information about 'Watkins & Hill', Opticians from London. I bought a stereo daguerreotype from them, depicting the 1st duke of Wellington. Were they photographers? Or only resellers?
In my current library I can't find much... So I would like to learn more!
Feel free to post here or private:…
ContinuePosted on February 13, 2019 at 15:30 — 2 Comments
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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