I am researching Eugene Atget and wish to know more about how the camera that he used would have contributed to the distinctive appearance of his photographs. I have only just started my research so apologies if I have overlooked an obvious source. A
Read more…I'm looking for help with identifying the stereo camera technology in use in the first of these images. The picture shows Belgian photographer and ecologist Jean Massart in 1911. Not a great image I know, but all I have to go on.
The stereo pictures
Read more…I am seeking biographical information on Aaron Scharf, much published art historian, champion of photography as art and author of the important 'Art and Photography' (1968). Little information on this ground-breaking pioneer of photo-history can be o
Read more…Butlin’s Photographic Services was a joint venture between Butlin’s and one of the companies within the Ilford Group. I would like to hear from anybody that worked as a photographer or in the darkrooms for BPS.
Read more…Hello everyone - Have just uploaded a print of the French royal family. Despite many online searches I can find no detailed information regarding the print and would be grateful if anybody could shed any light on it.
It is a picture of the French roy
Read more…PHOTOGRAPHY PUSHED PAINTING INTO MODERNISM
In Celebrating 100 Years of American Modernism 1913-2013, attention is focused on the photographic roots of Modernism, fo
I wonder if anybody knows anything about a Adolphus Pepper (b. abt 1836 in Westminster). I believe he was a brother of John Henry Pepper ('Pepper Ghost').
I have found a mention of him as 'the Official French government photographer' and a vinta
Read more…Hello everybody. I have recently acquired a photograph/albumen print? by Hills and Saunders, Oxford.
The print/photo is dated 1859 and features the Prince of Wales (King Edward VII); General Robert Bruce; Herbert Fisher and Colonel Frederick Keppel
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I am writing a new book, my forty-fourth, continuing my studies of medical photography and popular culture.
(working title) Stiffs Skulls and Skeletons: Medical Photography and Symbolism will explore the use of images of the d
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Black and white photography in the 21st century.
Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock, Wiltshire SN15 2LG.
12th April to 22nd October 2013.
The artists exhibiting are:
Trevor Ashby
Katie Cooke
Nettie Edwards
Anthony
Frederick Dally was an Englishman who went to Victoria, Vancouver Island (British Columbia) in 1862, began business as a general merchant, and then turned to photography in 1866. His best known photographs show the landscapes of the Cariboo Road and
Read more…Hi, just wondered if anyone was starting the Masters in Photographic History at DMU this September. I will be doing it and am really excited :)
Read more…I'm searching for information on the early Inverness artist-photographer Andrew Paterson, who set up his studio in 1896, and his son Hector Paterson, who took over the business upon his fathers death in 1948. (I don't think the studio itself outlaste
Read more…I was wondering if anyone could help me date the photograph attached. The first photo in the frame is mine, the last one labeled "Alinari Internet Photograph" is one I found on the internet. Everything about the two photos are the same except the pos
Read more…Hello, i am looking for any information regarding a series of prints issued in 1989 By the Sunday Times / The Royal Photographic Society. This one- "Fruit and Vegetable Sellers" states that it is a 'modern calotype" and should not be displayed in dir
Read more…In 1853 Fenton was working at the British Museum and a year later was involved in the Crimean War. How did he attain the commission to do this and from whom?
Read more…I am looking for a book of James Waterhouse, published in 1870, tittled .Report on the cartographic applications of photography as used in the topographical departments of the principal states in Central Europe, with notes on the European and Indian
Read more…I am trying to find information on Henry Hughes & Son, who advertised as New London Photographic Stores (c.1890s). I have found reference that they produced a twin lens camera called the ‘Xela’ (anybody know anything about this or any other cameras).
Read more…I've recently been given the opportunity to shoot some images in the Lake District using an Underwood 'Instanto' that belonged to the Abraham Brothers of Keswick - famed for their early climbing and landscape images.
The camera is uses 10x12 glass pl
Read more…Hi there
I have recently acquired some of these and I wondered if there were any other collectors or people who knew much about them out there.
I would lovve to talk to you
with best wishes
Sarah
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