Can anyone throw any light on the poet's suggestion in her poem Expulsion that different printings of the photograph suggest different interpretations of it? I don't seem to be able to include both the poem and the photo so here is the poem. The phot
Read more…In his book Camera Obscura, the poet Robin Robertson describes a photograph of Princes Street taken in 1858 by GWW as 'The first snapshot' - is it a real photograph or purely imagined by the poet? Help appreciated.
Read more…Hi, new to the group. I have aquired some negatives of social events and daily life. Some of them have information of who is in the picture etc, but there are many with little to no inforrmation. I am planning on digitzing the collection, should I on
Read more…Mystery Lens. I have lenses made in England and one from Wales (PPE - Pilkingtons, St Asaph - ~1970s, RPS thread flange) so when I saw one marked "Made in Scotland" it intrigued me and as it was cheap I bought it. Now Stewartry lenses are marked simi
Read more…I am researching the several sons of Josiah Pumphrey (1783-1861). Most of them seem to have had some involvement with photography:
William P (1817-1905)
Charles P (1819-1901)
Josiah P (1823-1911)
Samuel Baker P (1826-1912)
Alfred P (1830-1913)
William see
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My first question in this group
Have any members visited the archive that holds Henry Taunt's negatives?
I know they are held by historic England and/or the National Monument Records Offices, and I have found the page where I can book to visit the arch
Hello everyone,
Hoping someone out there might have some basic biographical info on photographer W.F. Davidson, active during the 1970s and 1980s, mostly doing landscape photography.
He was the photographer for the "Country Life" picture book series th
Read more…I’m hoping to discover more of the life and career of J Dixon-Scott, a photographer who became well-known in the 1920s and 1930s, partly through the publication of several illustrated books, such as “The beauty of Hampshire” (1927), “The beauty of So
Read more…To forward a very large file between members in this cas a size of 50MB is there a best way to do it
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Just added to my camera collection, a J Lancaster "Filmograph No 5" It's in great condition for it's age, probably about 120 years. The information on this camera is very sparce and I cannot find a photo of one anywhere. I think it is quite
Read more…I am trying to trace surviving photographic work or any other archival traces relating to Miss Gladys Methven Brownlee, a Bristol-based photographer active in the first half of the 20th century. Her studio was destroyed during the Blitz, but given th
Read more…Identified as being of a "Mr & Mrs Warner", might anyone be able to confirm whether this double portrait (by William Croft of Torquay) is of the Herefordshire photographer William Harding Warner, and of his wife Annie Taylor nee Johnston? Warner's f
Read more…Before embarking to the Middle East to take his remarkable series of stereoscopic views, in 1856 Francis Frith toured the UK perfecting his photographic technique. I am attempting to collect these early views and put together a catalogue of titles. I
Read more…For a research project at the Courtauld we are hoping to find out more about the life and career of Paul Laib (b. 1869 Hamburg, d. 1958 London) as well as of the co-directors of his photographic studio Horace Gilchrist (1898-1972) and Eric Laib (1903
Read more…In 1868, Howard Grubb, the Dublin telescope maker, set up the large reflecting telescope destined for Melbourne (the Great Melbourne Telescope) to test its functions. As part of this he took photographs of the moon said to exceed any taken by other
Read more…I have this signed Richard Beard daguerreotype in my collection, which unfortunately not in great shape.
Does anyone recognise the markings on the back or possibly recognise the sitter ?
Is it just a plate number and name of the sitter ?
It is not
This could be a trivia question, but I'm asking it as a serious inquiry. Does anyone know which museum first collected photographs? I'm not looking for the first that exhibited photographs (although that might be interesting as well), but rather whic
Read more…I have been working on building a database of early photographic works, been doing this for about a decade.The database is currently running off of a thumb drive and is pushing 75GB. The database is indexed and is searchable via Regex searching. Bein
Read more…For a monograph on Frederic Shields I am interested in the English Picture Publishing Company formed c. 1875 by Frederic Shields, Charles Rowley and George Milner. The company was formed specifically for the' photography of the work of British artist
Read more…I am writing to request further information regarding an Ensign Optiscope No. 20 Lantern Projector that belonged to my late Father. The projector has been kept in a cellar, unused, for at least fifty years. I am not looking to keep it and would be gr
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