Hello,
Can anyone advise me on where I might find membership records for the London Salon of Photography for the 1910s?
Many thanks in advance,
Malcolm
Read more…I have been retired from my position as Curator of Exhibitions for The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. After a first week of retirement canvassing for Hillary Clinton, my immediate plan is to complete the professional biography and
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A bit of a technical one but I am looking at Photography 3D modeling software options and was wandering if anyone has experience with this and what are your recommendations.
It is to be used for modeling objects [big and small] and field/arch
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Some of you may be aware that I'm shooting contemporary rock climbing in the Lake DIstrict using a camera previously owned and used by the Abraham Brothers ( There has been a news item about it) but more here -
http://www.georgefisher.co.uk/blog
Read more…Does anyone have any information about the Egerton brothers, Jeremiah and John, who were the subject of litigation by Richard Beard in 1845? I have read what’s available (R. D. Wood, et al), but I am looking specifically for any daguerreotype or dagu
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Just wondering if anyone has any info on Victorian photographers working at Belle Vue Zoological Gardens.
I can find reference to local photographers on Hyde Road ie Thomas Mawson Waters but wondered if Belle Vue employed an actual pho
Read more…We are in the process of initiating the establishment of Boston Maritime Museum and are looking for images associated with the History & Heritage of the area around Boston Lincolnshire....including the Fishing Indudustry, water transport on the Witha
Read more…I am currently researching a folio of sixteen World War Two photographic prints, taken by Nazi photographers which were confiscated by British Intelligence Corp officers during the denazification of British occupied Germany - in Dortmund - in 1946. T
Read more…Hello, I've discovered a reference to William Lake Price shooting the opening ceremony of the Royal Horticultural Gardens at Kensington Gore in 1861 (the gardens were later associated with the international Exhibition of 1862).
Can any-one confirm th
Read more…There are two oriental Chinese pencil signed (By Kees) photographs, accepted by 1952 Annual Exhibition of Orpington Photographic Soceity.
Two photos were taken in China by Kees, a photographer.
I have been trying to find some background information on
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In late 2013 I posted on BPH that I was researching the 1867 portrait photograph
of Montauk (USA) Indian Stephen Talkhouse Pharoah that is in the 1869 Shindler Catalogue
at the Smithsonian. The British connection was that it was William H
I have been given this first day cover that was posted in Rochester NY on the centenary of the birth of George Eastman on 12th July 1954. The envelope is still sealed and there appears to be a short letter from the then Chairman of Eastman Kodak, Tho
Read more…George Eastman Museum is holding a five day workshop in dry collodion negatives and salt printing at Kenilworth Castle June 27 through July 1st. The workshop will be conducted by Mark Osterman and France Scully Osterman best known as the founders of
Read more…Daguerreian Society 2016 Call for Submissions
The Daguerreian Society (Daguerre.org) is offering a call for original papers that address and
advance the understanding and appreciation of early photographic history and the Daguerreian
era (ca. 1830 –
Read more…This set of 10 printers proof photos have been donated to our Press Photo History Projectto help fund research - Can readers help with any info? I am looking for historical value and For Sale value.
The ten images are printers proofs from the b
Read more…The recent reports the RPS collection is returning to London is good news. However, I will need to rewrite my recent rant in my forthcoming book on Lyddell Sawyer. Many years ago, befor the internet, I wrote a letter enquiring if there were any Sawye
Read more…I was told today by an engineer who is making replica knurled wheels for the front standard rise/fall mechanism on my 1/4 plate Lancaster Instantograph 1890 patent that the thread size is No 8 Unified fine with 36 threads per inch. Might come in us
Read more…I have inherited a number of my great grandfather's photographic plates, his name was Henry Sutton and in 1887 he invented a halftone process, the photographic plates are the only remaining examples of Henry's process and are historically important.
Read more…I'm looking to take some photographs using a 1920s quarter-plate camera and had assumed - based on Wikipedia - that if pan film was introduced in 1906, that it would have been pretty prevalent in the early to mid 1920s.
However on Luminous Lint, ref
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