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
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I have just created a Wikispace which contains an A - Z listing of nineteenth-century Pacific photographers with short bios, location of photographic holdings etc.The original list was created as a part of my Masters thesis but the online
POIRIER was a fench ptotographer with atelier in Bordeaux. In 1860 he comes to Porto, Portugal, and he says in a portuguese newspaper ("Commercio do Porto (O)", Nº 139, 20 June 1860, Pag. 4) that is the second time, after 15 years. He participate in
Read more…Just a quick message to let everyone know that process supplies (London photographic wholesaler Established 1928) has a new website, www.processuk.net
Hope you enjoy the new site!!!
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Despite having researched the lives of many hundreds of 19th century photographers active in Australia, New Zealand and Great Britain I have never come across references to anyone undertaking a formal
apprenticeship. That is, until now. Ment
I am researching the photographic scene in the late 1940s and 1950s and am trying to get a better idea of what aspiring photographers would be looking at and learning in these years. Questions to which I would like to find answers include:
1. What co
Does anyone know of any workshops within the London area on old processes?
Read more…I am researching early photographers in Leyton, Leytonstone, Walthamstow and Chingford in East London. If anyone has any info / links or wants to share information. please let me know.
Read more…I'm researching the early photographic history of Cornwall, particularly the use of the calotype process in the 1840s. I've come across a number of Fox-Talbots made in August 1841 at Carclew House near Mylor, and Robert Hunt, I believe, used the pro
Read more…Would like to know if anyone has information on 19th century photographer William Gale.
According to 1865 and 1868 directories, he operated at 222 Bute Road in Cardiff, Wales.
In 1865 was listed as Cambridge and Gale, photographers.
Thanks,
Jim
Read more…We've inherited a delightful little press - the smallest I've seen with a plate size of just 8 3/4 x 11 inches. It's suggested this is for cabinet cards and wondered if any-one has come across a press like this? Many thanks!
Read more…I've been sent an image of a daguerreotype plate that has a stamped mark in the top right corner, apparently very similar to that shown on the Historic Camera web page of Daguerreotype Plate Manufacturer Marks, i.e. "NP: 40." The date and location p
Read more…I'd be grateful for any information on status of the archives of the Professional Photographers' Association (founded in 1901, and subsequently renamed the British Institute of Professional Photographers). My understanding is that these archives have
Read more…I have some family photographs by Richard Beard, but they are deteriorating. Does anyone know how to slow down, repair or whatever. Or does a museum or professional provide this service? I have had the complete set scanned by my local photographic sh
Read more…Someone knows some biographical facts about Hugh Owen. He lived in Oporto, Portugal?
Thank you!
MANUEL MAGALHAES
Read more…Is anyone aware of institutional or private holdings of carbon print enlargements of Benjamin Brecknell Turner's photographs?
Read more…I wanted to share the pictures of my Chapman.
It is fully functional, has the original focusing cloth, carrying case and three magazines.
I bought it about 30 years ago and kept it stored. Nothing is broken and the bellows are intact.
I bought it in
Hello there, I'm brand new to this site so this post acts also as a little tester. Feel free if i'm doing anything wrong to tell me. I 'm looking for a little bit of info on this picture shown here. Obviously its world war two era but I was wondering
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I am current researching the subject of Collotypes, these are prints produced by the italian company Fratelli Alinari. Link below.
I'm working on a collection for the Italian Cultural Institute.
I was wondering if anyones knows of someone
Read more…I am looking for the catalogue of the RPS Exhibiton in 1918. Unfortunately, the only copy of the Photographic Journal of 1918 I have access to does not contain the catalogue, while the adjacent years do. Does anyone know whether there was and usually
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