I am researching the photographic scene in the late 1940s and 1950s and am trying to get a better idea of what aspiring photographers would be looking at and learning in these years. Questions to which I would like to find answers include:
1. What co
When did the RPS change the name of the "Pictorial Group" to the "Visual Art Group", and what prompted that change ?
Thanks very much,
Regards
Kelvin
Read more…I am looking for information on any British photography exhibitions, between the early 1940s and the late 1960s.
I would be grateful for any leads.
Trying to find info on
Richard Lang Sims (B 1860 in Greenwich, Kent – D 1939)
was a photographer in Lambeth. Member of The Royal Photographic Society from 1902.President of Professional Photographers' Association c.1909
William Arthur Sims (B abt 186
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I am currently doing a practice based PhD in Photography at Brighton University. The focus of my research is on the photographic portrait studio.
I am trying to locate any writing on commercial portrait studios in the 20th century. I am particula
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I am looking for photographic postcards of Cowes, Isle of Wight, any age or subject. I did a photographic project for my degree show at university using postcards of Southampton. This work has now been chosen for a graduate exhibition at Quay Arts
Read more…I don't know if anyone can help but I know there is a photographic archive based in Herefordshire and either London or Oxford, I think the title is somebody's name, just can't remember who it is
Read more…I have just bought a Seagull SLR conversion pinhole camera. Has anyone used one? It takes 35mm film on a spool.
Read more…Does anyone know of collections or archives that contain 19th century Grand Tour albums?
Read more…I am interested in commercial seaside photography, beach photographers, comic head-through photographs and walking photographs know by those in the trade as “walkies.” I was born in Great Yarmouth and am particularly interest in the local photographe
Read more…We at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts have just opened the photographic exhibition Martha Swope: In Rehearsal. Swope, a self-described "dancer with a Brownie," specialized in performance photography, documenting Broadway, ballet
Read more…Where could I find information on the family of John Henry Pepper (b. 17 June 1821 in Westminster – d. 25 March 1900 in Leytonstone). I think his father was Charles Bailey Pepper.
Also was his sister Jane Adelaide Pepper and did she marry Richard Whe
Read more…Did any member of this forum work in the developing and printing trade? Some companies diversified into specialist services to professional photographers like John Slater Photography Ltd of Newmarket with their Colorlabs International subsidiary. Do
Read more…We are researching North East Photographers of the Victorian period and are trying to find Daguerretypists and their images.
Names, dates, locations, images etc.any information, links or images would be greatly appreciated.
We hope eventually to pu
Read more…Does anyone know of anywhere in the world which offers a BA course on the History of Photography? All I can find are places that offer it as an MA
Read more…Hi, Can anyone inform if there are any antique photograph dealers in Dublin? Thanks very much and kind regards, Jose.
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I've been searching for some five years now for examples of my Great Great Grandfathers work. I must have checked through thousands of CDV's and annoyed countless Ebay sellers without success!
James William D'Anter was a North London photo
Read more…Hi , I am going to Chalon Sur Saone later this week and will go to the museum at 28 Quai des Messageries, but I understand there is also another Nicéphore Niépce location that one should visit. However my search on Google has drawn a blank. Can anyb
Read more…I was wondering how many parts of this work, each containing 6 albumen prints, were actually published. Gernsheim's "Incunabula of British photographic literature" (no. 34) states that 6 parts were issued between 1854 and 1855, but in his "The rise o
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