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I'm looking for information about a photographer called Cyril M. Bernard (see attached stamp), so I can contact him, or the current rights holder of this photo, to ask for permission to reproduce it (I'm a historian currently preparing a book
Read more…1. Has anyone any information about a German portrait photographer, Oskar Goetze, who had a studio in Berlin possibly before World War One.
2. As most Cartes de visite were taken during the wet-plate era, can we assume that they all would have bee
Read more…Does anyone know of researchers working on or articles about 'Photograms the Year' or digitized copies?
In case of interest even though outside Britain while at the National Gallery of Australia a volunteer Bernard , made an index and photocopies o
Read more…I am interested in the types of photographic plate products made available from British manufacturers in Japan at around 1914. I am particularly interested in Ordinary, Photo-mechanical and Process plate availability.
The reason for my interest is t
Read more…I have recently resurrected a project I was doing on Alvin Langdon Coburn and have found his grave in Rhos on Sea in North Wales were he lived and died in the 19660s.
His grave is rather a mess to say the least and I would like to get it restored or
Read more…For one of my current research projects, I am interested in stereoviews of paintings (not stereoviews inspired by or that attempt to recreate paintings such as those included in Pellerin and May's Poor Man's Picture Gallery). If you know of any exam
Read more…I've just picked up yet another camera, a whole-plate from late 19th or early 20th century. There are no markings and it is similar to many whole and half plate cameras of the period.
The bellows appear in remarkably good condition. I'm trying to wo
Read more…As a part of a wider photo history project I am interested in the characteristics of these type of glass plates, sometimes also produced as flexible films. They were introduced from 1895 but were in production in various forms for decades.
I have som
Read more…Hello, I have come across a hand coloured CDV in our museum collection (Te Papa, Wellington, New Zealand) which has a handwritten credit on the verso. I think it reads: 'Mrs Browning / Photographist / & Colourist / 14 Pollock Street / Glasgow'.
Does
Read more…I have recently acquired a glass plate negative by W E Debenham (Regent St London & Massingham House, Haverstock Hill).to add to my collection of Debenham photos The plate show the photographer and address details at the bottom.
I always thought the
Read more…If you are looking for a property and a "project", you could become (like us) the owner of a former Victorian photographic studio!
The property in question is the former studio of Henry Hayman, at 20A Church Street, Launceston, Cornwall. Hayman had s
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I am looking for any information that you may have on Edmund Wormald. A well regarded and influential photographer who had his own studio in central Leeds.
I am especially interested in the period between 1867 - 1888. This is where the trail
Read more…Of the many thousands (I believe that is no exaggeration?) of photographic studios that were established in the UK in the Victorian era, how many have survived to this day in a recognisable form?
As the owner of one such studio, I have been researchi
Read more…I've just published a blog post about this collection of motor sports images that I bought at auction of and by Bill de Selincourt ( 1921-1994). They are from the early 1960s ( a few from 1959) and include pictures that Bill must have taken at Grand
Read more…Hi All, I'm wondering if anyone has come across Byrne & Co, 'Late with Hills & Saunders' Photographers to the Queen, Hill Street, Richmond?
They'd have been active around 1870. Ideally I'm hoping their archive has landed up somewhere!
Thank you
Read more…Does anyone know the location of a print of Marcus Sparling's image of the Crimean Banquet held in Dublin in October 1856? I have found reproductions of it but am interested in seeing an actual photograph. Thank you!
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Ive been carrying out some family research and Ive found a photograph and I'm really struggling in finding out when the photographer worked. I've looked at so much info on the internet but so far Ive only found one small article about him.Th
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I'm trying to get hold of a copy of an article from the BJP's August 1982 issue. If anyone happens to have a copy of that magazine I'd be incredibly grateful if you would scan me a few pages from it.
I'd normally try and find it in an archiv
I've been making my own silver gelatine glass plates and am exploring ways to print and present positives.
I'm intrigued by historical orotones such as the ones produced by Edward S. Curtis in early 20th Century.
There are a few contemporary techniq
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