Read more…Hello from "across the pond"! I'm a photography collector who recently purchased four albumen photographs that have a blindstamp to the mounts that reads; "S. S. Soley / Photographer/Gloucester". The photos are circa 1860.
On the back of one of the
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I am presently starting my research about photographic associations in XIX / early XX centuries. In fact, it is my intention to focus it in one of the oldest associations of Spain (Agrupació Fotogràfica de Catalunya founded in 1923).
Read more…I am seeking information on the Welsh Salon of Photography which was started in Cardiff in 1914. I believe their were 4-5 salons in the first 10 years (1915, 1919, 1922, 1925 ???) and i would be interested in any information - catalogues etc - about
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I writing a PhD dissertation on the autochrome in England. I have two question I would appreciate some help with:
- In an article from the BJP 1907, F. C. Tilney writes about the "plain biograph picture". This may be a language problem (I
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Can anyone help on this ?
I writing an essay and found a mention on one site as follows :
"In post war Britain, between 1946 to 1969 the Arts Council only funded three photographyexhibitions."
Can anyone give me more information about
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I am often sent privately-owned ambrotypes to work on. Most of them are dateable from dress to the mid-late 1850s or early 1860s but occasionally there is a query as to whether they could possibly be pre- 1854, the year when I understand (
Does anyone one know in which publication the article by Gerry Badger entitled "On British Photography, Some Personal Thoughts" was first published?
I assume it was the BJP in 1978 but can't be sure.
Any more precise information would help me greatly!
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http://www.fotoplatz.stereographie.de/wme/ http://www.fotoplatz.stereographie.de/stwrld-WmE/ Does anyone know, where I can find stereographs of William England's stereograph Number 32 - title unknown (Serie 'The Rhine and its Vicinity)? Original wou
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I have a small a box of late Victorian / Edwardian glass negatives and positives, and in amongst them are 13 colour positive glass slides. One is clearly an Autochrome, but the other twelve are made with a process that I am unfamiliar with.
At firs
I have a query about reversing mirrors/prisms that could be used as an attachment in front ofthe lens on an early daguerreotype camera. If the photographer did not want the photographic image to be reversed from the way it appeared in real life, he
Read more…Did anyone attend the 'Industrial Image' exhibition hosted by the Photographers' Gallery between 5th December 1986 - 31st Jan 1987 or its subsequent touring shows in Nottingham Castle Museum, Bradford Industrial Museum, Billingham Art Gallery, Bristo
Read more…I have been looking into the available documentary sources for Archer's life.
I went along to 'Amsterdam 1845-1875: The first photgraphs' ( http://stadsarchief.amsterdam.nl/ ) in Amsterdam last week. A truly stunning exhibition. Also stunning archive centre! Go if you can. When there, go along to the Rembrandt House, where
Read more…There is new to fashion, photography, and fashion photography than meets the eye. Always remember that the craft and the business are beyond the realms of taking good photos, models, clothes, and products. Also remember that being a fashion photograp
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I'm researching the life of Frederick Scott Archer. According to one website Frances, (Fanny), Archer, his wife, spoke about his early life. I'm looking for the original source of this information, the name and date of the historical document.
Since posting news of the research into Ifor & Joy Thomas (Guildford School of P hotography) we have been delighted with the response which is already in. Several members of the family are now 'in the frame' - excuse pun- and Jack & I have had our fi
Read more…The London branch of the firm A Marion, Son & Co was
advertising its collection of celebrity cartes-de-visite (amongst
other things) in the pages of the Daily Southern Cross (NZ) in 1865,
“catalogues sent on application". Does anyone out there know wher
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I am trying to locate copyright holders for the following photographers:
Winifred Casson (British, 1908-1969)
Katherine Mary Parsons (British, 1883-?)
Mark Neven du Mont (British, act. 1940s & 1950s)
Thank you for any assistance!
Linda Briscoe M
I collect vintage studio portraits; my latest acquisitions are several by the late Bertram Park [1883-1972] who, as many of you will know, operated from a studio in Dover Street, Picadilly, London. The images I have of his are printed on a really fl
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