Dr Walker, an Australian, arrived in England in the late 1920s. He was a keen photographer earning a medal from the RPS for a series of images of 'The Life History of the Kangaroo'. He gave lectures in England illustrated with his own lantern slides
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I'm creating a Lomography photo book based on British camera and film, I'm not asking for backers but I thought it might be interesting for anyone into this field of study.
https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/56081633/made-in-britain-a-lom
Read more…Can anyone tell me more about Edward Sheriff Curtis's use of cyanotype in his American Native series.
I know he used gravure as well but need to rationalise why he used cyanotype.
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I'm trying to find a brief history on camera and film manufacturing in the UK, when the company's ceased and most popular types for a project i'm working on. I have a keen interest but I am struggling where to start!
Regards,
Anthony
Read more…Further to my recent blog post - can anyone confirm the actual circumstances of the discovery of the Pattinson daguerreotypes?
Read more…I would like to ask for the following textbook with regard to a research project: Robert Hunt, A Manual of photography, first edition, 1841. As far as I know, it is not available in any library. Does anyone know where a copy is? Is it in an engl
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Ive just joined, and Im not sure if `commercial questions` are permitted here. I suppose Im about to find out!
I am looking for two cabinet albums. Ideally but not necessarily a matching pair. Space for forty photos of exclusively cabinet size in ea
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Rolf S. Schultze was the honorary librarian for the Royal Photographic Society in London and in the '60s he published a few short articles and an exhibition catalogue on photographically illustrated books. At the time he estimated (based o
Read more…I'm researching Cheltenham's early photographers. Richard Beard Jnr ran The Photographic Institution, Promenade, Chelt from 1849-50. Does anyone know if he was the son of, or related to, the Richard Beard who opened the country's first photographic s
Read more…I have found couple of literary references to a British photographer David Bellezzi, different authors decades apart.Can anyone tell me about him? Thank you!
Read more…I have found couple of literary references to a British photographer David Bellezzi, different authors decades apart.Can anyone tell me about him? Thank you!
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A group of us in Australia are trying to work out the identity of the girl, location in Australia, date of this tin type, photographer/studio ... - all thoughts/information very welcome.
Currently haven't obtained any further information than
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This is my first post and hope I have put it in the correct place.
I am currently researching Victorian Post-Mortem photographs and its relation to symbolism in Art for my MA dissertation and have come to a point where I am trying to discover
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I am new to the forum so I do hope I am posting correctly.
I am applying for the MA at De Montfort University and would love to hear from anyone else who may have also applied to start this year.
I would also love to hear from a
Read more…I'd be interested to know if anyone can point me in the direction of a possible source for photographs/postcards of docks and dock building, anything up until the 1920s. In particular, the original docks at Immingham, Lincolnshire, completed in 1913.
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My name is Yining He, I am a writer and photography researcher from China. I am currently working on a book series about British Photography Education and I would like to include the most important British photographic research centres in
Read more…May I ask if this is a photographic item ? ... and if so - what is it ?!
Read more…In an historiographical essay in his recently published book on The Gernsheim Collection, Roy Flukinger refers in passing to Gernsheim's association with the so-called Combined Societies The Combined Societies - established at a meeting in Cheltenham
Read more…Hello, I am researching early cinematograph exhibitions in several London suburbs. I am wondering if anyone has come across a photographer by the name of J. McCleery? He was involved in a cinematograph exhibition in Ealing in 1897 at Lock and Whitfi
Read more…Does anybody know if ‘Directory of English Photographers, 1840 to 1940’.compiled by Sandy Barrie is available to view. Also how to contact Mr Barrie by the email.
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