Information and discussion on all aspects of British photographic history
ARK PRESS is a publishing platform and website which seeks to save and promote vernacular photographs relating to all areas of British social history. We will be having a mini-pop-up show of images from the ARK at Bristol's Parlour Showrooms this Friday and Saturday. Come down anytime between 10am and 8pm or join us on Friday night from 5pm for a drinks and social reception at 31/31a College Green Bristol BS1 5TB
“I love saving things that are ephemeral, because if they don’t get saved they will be lost. I like the fact that these snapshots were important to someone at some point in time, and then became un-important. Found objects are often trash. Perhaps I feel that there’s something archeologically satisfying in the process of finding something that was lost or buried in a heap of paper ephemera at a flea market, and to then present it as something that deserves to be saved, looked at, and learnt from.”
Interview with Frank Maresca, ‘Now Is Then: Snapshots From The Maresca Collection’, Princeton Architectural Press, 2008, p.165
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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