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Hello everyone,
This is my first post here! I’m Sophie, history teacher and PhD candidate in France. I’m doing research on family photographs made by professional photographers or amateurs: my work focuses on the representation of children, the making of boyhood and girlhood on these pictures and I’m trying to draw a comparison between France and England (1840’s-1930’s).
I’m writing here because you may help me… I’m currently looking for family photographs and albums. I’ve already found lots of pictures in the collections of the National Portrait Gallery or the Museum of Childhood in London but I think it would be quite interesting if I could also based my work on private archives: if any of you have old family pictures (or know someone who collects this kind of pictures) and want to share your own family’s history with me, please contact me (I’ll come several times to Great Britain in the coming months)! Besides the technical and esthetical aspects of the pictures, I think it is quite interesting and necessary to know a few elements of the life of the children who are represented on these photographs.
Many thanks in advance!
Sophie
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hello - I have an album which previously belong to the Image family, it includes photographs of their children - you can see the whole album on my website here: http://earlyphotographers.blogspot.co.nz/2012/03/fanny-images-album...
I work with family album images of my own by integrating them into my photographic art work. See AngelaKellyPhoto.com
I discuss the work in the journal, 'Photographies,' Volume 6 Issue 1. 2012 in the essay, Catharsis: Images of Post Conflict Belfast. The Journal, Photographies addresses the family photograph in other volumes too which may be of interest.
Artists who work with family albums archives include Eric Kassel, ( Brussels) Barbara Levine, ( US) Thomas Sauvin ( China)
and many more.
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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