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Robert Elwall, Assistant director of the RIBA’s British Architectural Library, and the founder and curator of the RIBA Library Photographs Collection and RIBApix collapsed and died suddenly after a short illness. Robert had been continuing to work on various projects at RIBA.
Robert was a great writer of books and papers on photography and architecture in its broadest sense. A number of his articles are collected here: http://www.culture24.org.uk/am69854 He will be sorely missed.
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Very sad to hear the news of Robert Elwell's passing. He had an understanding & love of photography & architecture and was able to write about it with clarity and insight.
Very sad news. Robert was a lovely, generous man and we had many long phone conversations over the years, putting the world, and our various archives, to rights. Was about to contact him about some research I am doing on architectural photographer M.O. Dell, having read Robert's book. Alas, too late. He will be much missed.
So sad to learn of this news. I was delighted to meet him a few times over the years, and have admired his work at the RIBA and further afield for a long time.
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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