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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I was unaware of your discussion forum and having only joined and approved last night, having a skim around the topics, blog and articles I can see me winding away more time here over the coming days and months, so thank you to the site manager f
Read more…Hi! I haven't been able so far to identify the little person pictured in this CDV (ca.1864/5 according to the back design). I would be grateful for any hints. Thanks!
Dear All,
On my computer I have a quote, supposedly from Nadar, that I copied from somewhere nearly 20 years ago. I want to use it in something I'm writing but I can't find a source for it. Googling it only brings up a handful of matches, all of whi
Read more…Just to let you know that registration to attend this weekend's free online event 'A Celebration of Stereoscopic 3D - Part the Second' ends tomorrow (Thursday 18th February 2021) at 12:00 GMT.
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in 2018 I`ve purchased an autograph Album dating back to the year 1862. Yesterday I flipped through the Sarah Dobbs`s autograph Album and it came to my attention that there must have been a Card de Visite laid into the Album which is now lo
Read more…I'm looking for any information about the photographer Amanda M. Genung who, with her son Charles, spent a couple of years in Hong Kong taking portraits. She may have left California to avoid an abusive husband who had followed her from the east coas
Read more…I’m researching studio photographers Arthur Louis Jacub of Liverpool and Solihull and his brother David Walter Jacub who had a studio in Wrexham, both from 1880s until around the 1930s. Any snippets of information would be great, photos taken in thei
Read more…I’m researching studio photographers Arthur Louis Jacub of Liverpool and Solihull and his brother David Walter Jacub who had a studio in Wrexham, both from 1880s until around the 1930s. Any snippets of information would be great, photos taken in thei
Read more…I have three photographs of a British boarding school, taken c1950s-60s, and am trying for find the name of it, if anybody knows ?
Read more…Actually I am working on a book on Oscar Gustave Rejlander. I am a professor at the University of Konstanz (Germany) & I have already published quite a lot of books on the theory & history of photography (among others a book on Conan Doyle and photog
Read more…Is anyone interested in the envelopes that negatives were presented when the came back from the lab. such as Boots , Kodak, or the local chemist.
Read more…Afternoon all.
I am photographic consultant at Chiswick Auctions and we just took in a long run of B J Almanacs from the early 1900s through to the mid 1960s for the next photographic sale.
Like most of you here I have probably seen hundreds of these
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I don't suppose anyone has any further information on Kodak's lecture service / Dennis Kemp?
We're talking 60's and early 70's in London, and from what I understand, the lecture service was essentially an indirect marketing arm for the compa
Read more…I am trying to decide whether the small ambrotype is of a young Prince Albert and would appreciate any input . Please see the group photo and Albert on far left and Alfred on far right, and then my ambrotype. The hair looks very similar.
I have a reflex camera with both these names attached on plaques on it. It's quite large, the one bookform film holder fits 5x7sheaths.I'm in the middle of restoring it, as someone dropped it sometime ( I think) and cracked the front standard.
It loo
Read more…I have an odd Gandolfi Tailboard camera. The rear has ground glass which is 3" x 4" and it is in a slide which pulls out to allow a roll film holder to slide in instead. The width of the section which slides in is 3 5/8" or 92mm and the runners allow
Read more…I am new here so please excuse me if this has been covered. I have found it incredibly frustrating trying to make sense of the Orphan Works system. It seems to actually work against making historic images available for use. As a photographer myself I
Read more…Hello, I am seeing quite a few press credits where photographer credit is SKR. They are mostly pop images from 60’s and credit is being applied to a London Features International (USA) stamp on back of photograph. They are decent quality and wondere
Read more…If anyone recognise's this lady in an Ambrotype then I would be grateful to know.
Many Thanks
