I wonder if anyone can identify this subject of an Elliott & Fry carte de visite portrait? I've included scans of both the recto and verso. I appreciate any ideas!
As some of you may know, I am preparing a retrospective exhibition on the work of Oscar G. Rejlander. The exhibition will open at the National Gallery of Canada in 2018 and travel to two other venues. I would be very interested in knowing about any o
Read more…George Eastman Museum is the new name for George Eastman House.
Thanks, to all for noting this change, and incorporating it in your photo-historical use.
Read more…Following on from the discussion of Shakleston's stamps, may I recommend the book 'South With Endurance, Shakleston's Antarctic Expedition 1914-1917, The Photographs of Frank Hurley' compiled and authored by Gael Newton (in Oz) and Michael Gray (UK)
Read more…Hello everyone, Well I have just joined the group, so I send you all my greetings. I also have a request that I hope someone may be able to help me with. I am in the closing stages of an MA by Research looking at 'alternative' approaches to photogra
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I would like to identify a camera used at sea on a voyage from England to the Esquimalt BC Naval Yard, 1885 to 1889. Halfway through the trip, in 1887 at Coquimbo, It is apparent the photographer had trouble with the cameras sector shutter
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I've searched for this but cannot find any details of the equipment that John Thomson would have used in Siam and elsewhere in South East Asia in the 1860s. I'd be very grateful if someone knowledgeable or more resourceful than myself
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I am a historian doing research on photographs at the turn of the 20th century, and I need your help.
I am looking for any collections of photographs from the period of about 1860-1920 taken with a hidden camera or by an amateur phot
Read more…I wonder if anyone has any information about Park who operated from 89 Fleet Street.
This is all I have found so far.
There is a photograph which may be by him in the National Portrait Gallery:
http://www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp151525
A century of military photographic images goes on show at Shrewsbuy Museum & Art Gallery from Monday 19 October 2015 in a new exhibition by the Defence School of Photography.
The exhibition runs until 10 January 2016.
As well as marking the centenary
Read more…There was reference about John Henry Gear - 1896 Photographic Award (Posted by Tony Rackstraw on April 10, 2011) that he was born 1859 at Yeovil, Somerset, England. I have reference that he was born 1864 in Heckfield, Hampshire and lived with the Wic
Read more…I am trying to discover whether writing on a dark slide I have can help in any way to identify its origins. I have a mahogany and brass double dark slide, half plate size (for film 4.75 x 6.5 inches). In black lettering 1/4inch tall at one end of the
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Has anyone done any further research into the licences granted by Beard to daguerreotypists since the publication of Bernard and Pauline Heathcote's excellent book "A Faithful Likeness". I'm keen to find any information which might help me
Read more…The 2015 Daguerreian Society Symposium will be held November 5 – 9 in Los Angeles, California at the Pasadena Hilton is on the horizon. Thursday is a tour of the Getty and the “In Focus: Daguerreotypes” exhibition. The Getty will be hosting us for a
Read more…The Daguerreian Society is seeking authors and articles for the next Daguerreian Society Annual. The mission of the Society includes all early photographic processes up to ca 1870, as well as contemporary Daguerreians. We are particularly interested
Read more…I have a query regarding the studio Johnston and Hoffman, recognized as an important studio in India (Calcutta specifically) at the turn of last century. This is an English postcard I have credited to Johnston & Hoffmann. Did the studio open a branch
Read more…Over 200 photographic portraits in a wider variety of historical, modern and digital formats are now on view in Head Shots, at The New York Public Library for the Performing Arts. Free and open at 40 Lincoln Center Plaza through December 30.
www/n
Read more…I am writing to you from Norway because I came across your site. My name is Inger Lyngstad.
I am searching the origin of a photo ? image related to the Illustrated London News.
I have in my possession an old wooden door with an image of the first
Read more…Hi group,
Looking for an article published on page 7 of BJPhotography, Vol 149 (2002) for personal/non-commercial research project.
Thank you!
Jaime
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