Hi everyone, This weekend is the annual UK wet plate collodion weekend. If you are in the area please feel free to pop in and say Hi and take a look at what we get up to. Saturdays probably the best day as everyone will be set up and shooting. Guys
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I wonder whether anyone could help me better understand this image, from the Horner Collection, Settle (Museum of North Craven Life).
The subject is a Yorkshire photographer, Michael Horner, at work in the field probably mid 1860s, with what
Read more…Hi, I'm interested in finding stories of Sue Davies (Photographers Gallery), I've got the general information, and stories from family but I would love to hear more about her from other perspectives.
I'm not writing a book as such, rather a collect
Read more…Assuming you're bored to tears by the Tory leadership debate and are sheltering indoors from the heat, perhaps you might like to look closely (running any filters and software you have) at the following photos?
Part of my ongoing research into the hi
Read more…I recently acquired a daguerrian era correcting prism. I made a felt adapter and it fits on my c.1850s American Chamfered daguerreotype camera's lens hood. Although conceptually easy to understand, I am interesting in learning detailed information ab
Read more…I am trying to find out in the late 1880s how common it would have been for customers at photographic studios (in Ireland) to have purchased an original negative along with their photographic prints? I know that photographic studios would have often
Read more…I’m currently doing some family research of my great grandfather Claude Harris. I would love to learn more about his work , what cameras he used and also buy some more of his work. I know he had two studios one in London ( 122 regent street) and one
Read more…I bought the following image and could use some help in IDing the location and possibly the photographer.
Anonymous: Boats Stranded by Low Tide. Salt print, 8-1/16 x 10-1/8 in. (205 x 257 mm), 1850s/1850s, unmounted. Reportedly this is an early Engli
Read more…A researcher is seeking to talk to anyone who worked in Grunwick or a similar commercial photofinishing lab in the 1970s, to discover more about the experience, conditions and practicalities of working within such a lab at that time. The research is
Read more…British photographer James Anderson was born Isaac Atkinson (1813-1877), moved to Paris to become a painter and changed his name to William Nugent, and then moved to Rome and took up photography and changed his name to James Anderson.
None of these
I’m researching the photographic paper making company M S Berger and Co who were in Hampstead from the late 1890s until the early 1900s and from 1910, an involvement with the British PhotoPaper Company. Any thoughts on where to search for information
Read more…Chiswick Auctions are currently seeking keen and enthusiastic interns for the Photographica department. The positions would suit those with a passion for the art world, who are graduates or currently studying History of Art, Photography, other releva
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I'm seeking some advice around terminology. I've come across a few 35mm colour slide transparencies sandwiched between two pieces of glass and taped - from the 1950s. Has anybody seen anything like this before, and if so - would you call them
Read more…Can anyone let me know , or point me in the right direction for , how the process of censorship worked during WW1 and WW2 for photographs?
thanks,
John
Read more…I have come across a lens by Gasc & Charconnet it is an ordinary Petzval design with the addition of a third lens placed between the other two. The extra lens is a cemented achromat. The third lens and the front element are both mounted in a tube whi
Read more…At the Photographica 2022 event, which took place in London yesterday, 22 May, I noticed on one of the dealers’ tables a collection of around 100 old letters/letterheads from photographic companies and the like. The letters were in transparent plasti
Read more…The longest text item by far in "Spirit of America, V134" is "All the Best," my complete history of Britain's Picture Post mag (see attachments), which I recently revised, updated, & fine-tuned ca. May 2020, after writing its 1st draft in 1993. PP wa
Read more…I'm writing an essay about early American photography boats (floating galleries, studios, etc.). The earliest I have been able to document in this country is 1847. I'm wondering if anyone is aware of earlier boats in Britain or Europe. I'm hoping to
Read more…Hi all
Does anyone know of the existence of a portrait of daguerreotypist
William Edward Kilburn, or for that matter any of his brother Douglas
Thomas Kilburn who worked in Australia other than the one taken by J.
W. Beattie?
Cheers!
Marcel
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