Information and discussion on all aspects of British photographic history
Time: September 4, 2010 to January 9, 2011
Location: Swiss Camera Museum
Street: Grande Place
City/Town: CH-1800 Vevey
Website or Map: http://www.cameramuseum.ch/in…
Phone: Vevey 021 925 34 80
Event Type: exhibition
Organized By: Swiss Camera Museum
Latest Activity: Jul 17, 2010
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If you happen to be trekking in Switzerland this autumn, try and pop in to view this exhibition.
In 1853 the French photographer Adolphe Martin invented the ferrotype process in which the sensitive surface is laid on a black or brown lacquered metallic sheet instead of on glass, and which produces a positive image. As this process was inexpensive, it became extremely popular in the 1860s-70s and allowed a wide public to start taking portrait photos. Extensively used by itinerant photographers for small photos, even tiny miniatures fitted into brooches or pendants, this process was particularly successful in North America mainly because it was so similar to the far more costly daguerreotype.
The ferrotypes displayed, remarkable in their size, are typical of those favoured by the general public. The somewhat naive yet charming way in which they have been touched up or tinted takes us back to the rather austere atmosphere of country life in America in the second half of the 19th Century.
Opening times:
Tuesday to Sunday 11am - 5:30pm
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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