I am researching my local area's history- Red Lion st. Aylsham in deepest, darkest, northest Norfolk. According to Kelly's 1908 Norfolk Directory , May Bone had a studio on Red Lion street that she attended on Saturdays.. Unfortunately our forebears
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I'm sure I can remember reading about a photographer who advocated a concave mirror based camera for portraits. I think this was in the period pre petzval or about that time. Were they produced co
Read more…Bookings are now open for the Scottish Transport & Industrial Collections & Knowledge (STICK) network’s autumn online conference on photography in industrial heritage: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/snapshot-in-time-tickets-189836645517 “Snapshot in T
Read more…I’m trying to find out where records of this association might be held. Possibly BIPP, but wondering if anyone here as any other knowledge. Thank you!
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I am looking for photographs taken by Richard Stanley Freeman (1834 – 1923). He was a photographer based in Kensington and later Hammersmith. Has anyone come across any in private or public collections? Please let me know.
Many thanks for
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Back in 2019 I started a Wikipedia article on the magazine Camerawork (1976–1985), a British bi-monthly photography magazine promoting humanist, socialist and activist photography.
Not much content has been added since, and I wonder would a generou
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Considered one of the most important photo historians of the 20th century, Peter E. Palmquist (1936 - 2003) had a keen interest in the photography of the American West, California, and Humboldt County before 1950, and the history of wome
Read more…Hello, this handsome gentleman, photographed by Eliott & Fry, refuses to reveal himself. Does anybody have an idea of his identity? Thank you in advance for your help. Kindest regards, Christophe Blatt, lightmotif-vintage.
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I've come across a few photographs that were taken inside Ilford Mobberley Factory in the 1930s. Unfortunately the photographs aren't captioned and I can't say for certain what some of the factory workers are doing. Any insight would be hugely
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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
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