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
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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
Read more…I’m trying to find if Louis J Ruelens (abt 1856 in Brussels, Belgium – 1926 in Southwark?) a photographer in Barking and then Tottenham married Mary Bull (1847 in Bath, Somerset – 1913 in Southwark ?), the wife of Oscar Gustave Rejlander (1813 in Swe
Read more…I have a question to the photographer William Edward Kilburn.
In the Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography (2005) it is written that Kilburns „…photographs of a Charist Rally in London in 1848 brought his work to the attention of Prince Albe
Is anyone aware of any easy-to-use technology which facilitates the reading of hidden inscriptions written on the reverse of photos pasted on to album pages?
Terry Bennett
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I`m inquiring on what history you would have on the health risks/concerns photographers from the late 19th century encountered and/o suffered with in England during this time. Did any of the chemicals they use produce suicidal tendencies, possibly ar
Read more…Anybody interested in a group to discuss cameras and equipment, rather than photogrpahs ? If this is one already, I've missed it, so please let me know.
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I am extremely keen to get my wetplate practice up and running by this summer but have been stopped in my tracks by buying a dud 19C camera.
I know this forum has not got many practitioners on it but is there anyone out there who knows whe
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Amongst the property of a deceased relative I have come across a number of photographs.
A photograph of a woman by ‘The Art Photographic Studio’ Proprietor FW Britton Manager and Operator T H Robbins I have not been able to find out
Read more…Is there anyone in the U.K.who is willing to do a workshop demonstrating the carbon process. This to be part of a proposed exhibition, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Joseph Swans death. This to take place at the Newcastle Literary and Philos
Read more…Hi all. I am currently researching the supposed prevalence of Tintypists operating in Seaside towns in the UK and on beaches. My initial focus was on Scottish Seaside towns owing to the hunch that the Tintype was more popular there than it was in Eng
Read more…A Large archive of Victorian photographs and photographic equipment is maintained in Valetta, Malta by Ian Ellis, great grandson of Richard Ellis. Richard, born in England in 1842, established himself as a pioneering photographer in Valetta in 1862 a
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My name is Kyra and I came across an August 6, 1892 Liverpool Mercury article the other day while at the Library of Congress in Washington DC.
I'm am writing about Martha Ann Ricks, a former US slave who emigrated to Liberia. In 1892, she had
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