Hi All, Can anyone date the mount of this unusual cabinet image - it is not a style I have seen before. And if there is anyone out there who could throw some light on the cars, that would be a real bonus! The cabinet print was discovered in Scotland
Read more…Here's a platinum print of the botanist Harry Marshall Ward, Cambridge Professor credited with revolutionizing the study of Botany in Great Britain. He's the subject of a recent (2005) biography, Harry Marshall Ward and the Fungal Thread of Death. T
Read more…Dear friends, I am writing a MA dissertation on six albums of carte-de-visite. I'm looking for help in finding details about album factories in XIX century Europe. I know Mr. Antoine Maitre was the most important album producer in Dijon (1860s), and
Read more…I’m currently collaborating with a forensic scientist to use handwriting analysis to help attribute a group of 19th century stereoviews. Is anyone aware of any other studies using handwriting or forensic science to attribute images?
Read more…I hope no-one minds me posting this to the forum, but I thought people may find this story interesting given its uniqueness. Today my earliest precisely dated photograph is exactly 150 years old. Taken 29 June 1859, it shows a then 12-year-old Edmun
Read more…Greetings all Would anyone know of any other colonial daguerreotype license granted by Richard Beard - other than to George B Goodman from London, who was the first commercial daguerreotypist to set up shop in Australia in Sydney in December 1842.
Read more…Hi, I am looking at the possibility of selling my Claudet daguerreotype. Sadly I need to help fund the purchase of a new car, of all the mundane things! I would be grateful for any suggestions of the best way to sell this piece, and estimates of wha
Read more…Members of this group may be interested in an image by Frank Meadow Sutcliffe called "Quo Vadis?" shown on this page of a new online exhibition, "Inventing Modernism." The photograph was reproduced in The Photographic Journal in a memorial article o
Read more…I wonder how sitters chose the portrait that they liked best from the two or three made in a typical sitting. Is it correct to assume that sitters did make a choice? If so, did they wait in the studio while the negative was developed and fixed, and f
Read more…I'm in the process of adding a few details to a paper about early landscape practice and wish to find more information about usage of the newer developments in the optics/lenses used by landscape photographers. I've found in Talbot's correspondence (
Read more…Hi I recently acquired some lantern slides depicting life on board Hull fishing vessels in the early 1900s. I was so fascinated by them, and keen to find out as much as I could about the subjects, that I have started a website about them - http://ww
Read more…Dear Colleagues Those who are able to access BBC4 TV will be pleased to see that a remarkable documentary about James Ravilious is being shown on Saturday 7th March. (Sandwiched between films on Lartigue, Robert Capa and Eugene Smith) James Ravilious
Read more…Tracing Talbot… Over the past decade I have been putting together a referenced chronology tracking all of WHF Talbot's movements, covering, in particular, his travels around mainland Europe. A substantial amount of work was done by my friend and col
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