Can anyone tell me the specific camera being used here? The date is around 1843. If the man at the back is holding a darkslide (and not just steadying the camera) then it appears to be a very large format.

Joe

The Royal Society is hosting a free research seminar titled Women of science in the circle of Sir John Frederick William Herschel on Friday, 22 November 2024. The seminar is chaired by Professor Kelley Wilder. Speakers are: Emily Winterburn Godmothers to live up to: John Herschel's choices for his daughters, Rose Teanby Enlightened Letters: Sir John Herschel and women in early photography, Carolin Lange On the nature of light and colours: Spectral experiments by Mary…

Co-Creating Collections for Priority and Future Audiences: Socially Engaged Photography and Small to Medium Sized Public Organisations is a new CDA between the photography department at Birmingham City University and the Open Eye Gallery Liverpool with support from Coventry University.

The CDA is a unique opportunity for a practice-based researcher to work in…

The Library of Congress is now accepting applications for the 2025-2026 National Stereoscopic Association Research Fellowship. Please share the announcement with any colleagues or students that might be interested.

The National Stereoscopic Association Research Fellowship is made possible by a gift from the National Stereoscopic Association (NSA) to support research within the Prints & Photographs Division holdings of stereoscopic photography and the unparalleled photographic…

This proposal is for a Collaborative Doctoral Partnership PhD which will focus on the records in photographs and film held by Imperial War Museums (IWM) of Black volunteers from the Caribbean in the UK during the Second World War. It will open up new perspectives and information on this largely unexplored collection by looking at how and why these images and footage were commissioned,…

Vivienne Gamble has been appointed director of Edinbrugh's Stills Centre for Photography. She will start in her new role in January 2025. She takes over from Ben Harmer who moved to the National galleries Scotland as senior curator (photography) in the…

Photo Oxford Festival is returning in autumn 2025 with the theme of 'truth'. At a preview event Katy Barron, festival director, previewed three exhibitions from Jillian Edelstein, Yan Wang Preston and Edmund Clark. She also noted that the Bodleian Library would be hosting a retrospective exhibition of the Oxford-based photography Paddy Summerfield (1947-2024), curated by Alex Schneideman…

Michel Auer, one for the most significant collectors and dealers of cameras and photography and a historian and supporter of photography, has died aged 91 years. Auer will be best known by some for his books on cameras and, latterly, for his Foundation based in Hermance, Switzerland which exhibited photographs and cameras from his collection as well as having a public presence through exhibitions and public events.

Michel was born in Zurich in 1933. After school he completed an…