The Brotherhood of the Linked Ring is the subject of some new work and research by Dick Weindling which he has made freely available. Dick notes:  that Margaret Harker produced the most detailed study in her book The Linked Ring (1979). Using a study of the Link’s records she identified a total of 115 members who are listed in the appendix of the book. I have researched the…

First large-scale retrospective devoted to the artist in Paris, the exhibition brings together some one hundred photographs, from her early experiments to her historical and literary compositions, as well as her figurative allegories and an impressive gallery of portraits of her contemporaries.

Few 19th century photographers have attracted as much attention as Julia Margaret…

The University of Westminster (a member of the Techne consortium) and the Science Museum Group (SMG) are delighted to announce a call for applicants for a fully funded collaborative doctorial studentship from September 2024, under the AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Award scheme funded by Techne.

This PhD will be the first to focus on the user experience of combining photography…

Bonhams is offering an important album of photographs of India, Nepal, and British Isles, compiled by Capt. Eugene Clutterbuck Impey and consisting of 94 abumen prints, dating from c1860-65 albumen prints, and with an estimate of £15,000-25,000. The catalogue footnote says: 

PRIZE AMATEUR PHOTOGRAPHIC ASSOCIATION ALBUM, INCLUDING IMAGES OF INDIA BY EUGENE CLUTTERBUCK IMPEY,…

Reading about the recent auction of a second set of Beard daguerreotypes of the Franklin Expedition, posted here  by Michael Pritchard on September 21, 2023, I read of the previously known set housed in the Scott Polar Research Institute, that “the twin images were a product of Beard’s mirror camera which had a singular feature: the mirror had a pivot something like a modern SLR camera, and by turning it the photographer could record two images on a single oblong plate. This gave Beard the…

The University of Westminster (a member of the technē consortium https://www.techne.ac.uk/) and the Science Museum Group (SMG) are delighted to announce a call for applicants for a fully funded collaborative doctorial studentship from September 2024, under the AHRC’s Collaborative Doctoral Award scheme funded by technē.

This PhD will be the first to investigate how the interaction of camera technologies and rail travel…

Recently sold at auction was the Frank Strike Collection of Cornish shipwreck photographs. Described as an important collection of 'Magic Lantern' slides, annotated, catalogued, well preserved and boxed, together with a magic lantern projector made by JH Steward (Optician) of 406, Strand and 457 West Strand London.

Grouped into categories; Shipwrecks: 221 slides, Life saving…

We invite international submissions for essays and notes to be included in this forthcoming book to be published by MuseumsEtc in July 2024 in conjunction with a major Edith Tudor-Hart retrospective exhibition in Salzburg.

Both communist and jewish, Austrian photographer Edith Tudor-Hart (née Suschitzky) fled to Britain in 1933. By the time of her death in 1973, her photography…