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Has Anyone Seen This Method of Sealing Ambrotypes?
Hi Everyone:
I'm hoping someone can tell me about this method of sealing UK ambrotypes and whether it was a common practice or particular to one area or ambrotypist.
As seen in the photo, the ambrotype is totally encased, front and back, in this faux
Read more…Royer and Aufiere, Photographers, Cairo
This may not be the right forum for this query, but I'm hoping that someone may be able to direct me to the right place to find the information that I want. I have a Carte de Visite photograph of my great great grandfather, taken at the studio of Ro
Read more…Brewster type viewer made by Dresden-based German company ICA?
I have purchased a number of Brewster style viewers this year, one of the most recent was said to have be made by ICA in Dresden. I have found a few scraps of information about them from the eBay seller and others as well as information from Wikiped
Read more…Valentine Blanchard
I added a stereo view by Valentine Blanchard to my recent acquisitions over the weekend and checking my collection last night , having researched him, I discovered another beauty of his I believe in my holdings. Its a view of the Bank Of England. Th
Read more…Biographical information on 19th century photographers?
Hello all. Forgive the novice in the field, but I am looking for biographical information on 19th century photographers, most of them it must be said rather obscure as neither google nor the usual big collections throw anything up...Any advise where
Read more…Ilford Archives
Hello,
I'm trying to find historical company records for Ilford. A couple of years ago, a friend contacted Ilford via their website to enquire whether there were any company archives but was told,
"We no longer have any such archives within the compa
Read more…Eadweard Muybridge
Hello, I am seeking some advice on Muybridge's Mariposa Grove, California photographs which he took in around 1854. I believe he was travelling with Carleton Watkins. I have a mammoth plate albumen photograph of the 'Grizzly Giant', a 6,000 year old
Read more…William England Stereoviews and more
In an Adelaide, South Australia antique store over the weekend I was browsing their boxes of early British stereo images.
I collect images by Roger Fenton and Francis Bedford in particular. However on this occasion I came across 4 images from a serie
Read more…Talbotype stereoviews
I am seeking information about stereo views sold by Henneman & Co that have Patent Talbotype
wet stamps on the verso. I have three in my collection, all taken in Paris; one has the shield shaped
stamp with Henneman's 122 Regent Street address, the ot
Read more…Rochester City Market
Anthony Jones @RochesterCityMarket
A monthly artisan market in the heart of the historic city of Rochester, Kent where I will be showing a selection of photography related items.
Weather permitting I hope to offer visitors the opportunity to make cya
Read more…Spitalfieldslife.com
There lots of east end photos on there, perhaps they would allow you to store them?
Read more…Readings on Carbon Prints
Hello,
Can anyone recommend readings on the carbon printing process? Anything ranging from technical explanations to accounts of its historical and cultural significance, particularly within the pictorial movement.
Thanks in advance,
Malcolm
Read more…Origin of the term "camera worker"?
My apologies if this has been discussed previously, but my searches here have not indicated such. I'm trying to find the origin of "camera worker" as used to describe an artistic photographer. Of course, Stieglitz popularized the term, but I've found
Read more…The Photographic Collector.
During the 1980s I subscribed to a relatively short-lived publication called The Photographic Collector, edited by Paul Fort. I still own the fourteen issues that were produced but no longer have space for them. I would be happy to pass them on if so
Read more…1840's Dock Salt Print - Identification help asked
In kind of tandem to my previous post regarding the monogram, i am hoping that perhaps i would receive some help in identifying the docks in this Salt Print photograph i believe to be from the late 1840's.
Once again i have researched this image
Read more…Roger Fenton in the Lake District
Hi everyone,
Is there a Roger Fenton expert out there somewhere who can help me authenticate some photos of the Lake District, which I think are by him?
I have checked the usual on-line collections, but alas there seem to be only a handful of Lake Di
Read more…New Photo Podcast
If you enjoy podcasts but are looking for one that does not feature camera reviews, photoshop tips and super slick chat you might enjoy A Photographic Life https://soundcloud.com/unofphoto which is also in iTunes and at www.unitednationsofphotography
Read more…Copyright of Photography
Is there anyone out there that has a good grasp of photographic copyright.
1. Does it expire 70 years after the death of the photographer?
2. Is it possible to acquire the copyright of images that comply with Fig.1 ?
3. Are regulations international
Read more…Help with Salt Print & Mystery Monogram identification.
Hello BPH participants!
I am wondering if anyone on this forum may be able to help in the identification of the photographer of this Salt Print. I have researched as best i can and am, to be fair, stumped!
I have attached obviously an image of t
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