Here's a bronze relief, 10 x 24 cm, signed with a copyright symbol and the name EMANUEL (only one "M" in the name.) In case it's not legible, here's the title: THE TENTH EXHIBITION of the PHOTOGRAPHIC SALON promoted by the LINKED RING 1902. A few que
Read more…I’m currently collaborating with a forensic scientist to use handwriting analysis to help attribute a group of 19th century stereoviews. Is anyone aware of any other studies using handwriting or forensic science to attribute images?
Read more…Dear friends, I am writing a MA dissertation on six albums of carte-de-visite. I'm looking for help in finding details about album factories in XIX century Europe. I know Mr. Antoine Maitre was the most important album producer in Dijon (1860s), and
Read more…I hope no-one minds me posting this to the forum, but I thought people may find this story interesting given its uniqueness. Today my earliest precisely dated photograph is exactly 150 years old. Taken 29 June 1859, it shows a then 12-year-old Edmun
Read more…Can anyone tell me how well-known Robert Howlett's portrait of Brunel in front of the launching chains of the Great Eastern was in its/his/their own day? Was it reproduced or published as an engraving before 1900? Or is its celebrity a creation of 2
Read more…Hello everyone, Well I have just joined the group, so I send you all my greetings. I also have a request that I hope someone may be able to help me with. I am in the closing stages of an MA by Research looking at 'alternative' approaches to photogra
Read more…Greetings all Would anyone know of any other colonial daguerreotype license granted by Richard Beard - other than to George B Goodman from London, who was the first commercial daguerreotypist to set up shop in Australia in Sydney in December 1842.
Read more…Does anyone know of a table that correlates the no. de fabrication of autochromes (stamped on the boxes) with the date of production? Or know anyone who might know? (OK they are French, but they were used by the Brits ...) Hopefully Giles Hudson
Read more…Hi, I am looking at the possibility of selling my Claudet daguerreotype. Sadly I need to help fund the purchase of a new car, of all the mundane things! I would be grateful for any suggestions of the best way to sell this piece, and estimates of wha
Read more…Members of this group may be interested in an image by Frank Meadow Sutcliffe called "Quo Vadis?" shown on this page of a new online exhibition, "Inventing Modernism." The photograph was reproduced in The Photographic Journal in a memorial article o
Read more…I'm in the process of adding a few details to a paper about early landscape practice and wish to find more information about usage of the newer developments in the optics/lenses used by landscape photographers. I've found in Talbot's correspondence (
Read more…I wonder how sitters chose the portrait that they liked best from the two or three made in a typical sitting. Is it correct to assume that sitters did make a choice? If so, did they wait in the studio while the negative was developed and fixed, and f
Read more…Hi I recently acquired some lantern slides depicting life on board Hull fishing vessels in the early 1900s. I was so fascinated by them, and keen to find out as much as I could about the subjects, that I have started a website about them - http://ww
Read more…Dear Colleagues Those who are able to access BBC4 TV will be pleased to see that a remarkable documentary about James Ravilious is being shown on Saturday 7th March. (Sandwiched between films on Lartigue, Robert Capa and Eugene Smith) James Ravilious
Read more…I am writing a PhD dissertation on Antoine Claudet at the City University of New York (with advisor Geoffrey Batchen). I have visited several public and private collections in the States and the UK but if anyone has suggestions as to new places to lo
Read more…Camille Silvy made a number of wedding photographs in his London studio, the earliest being from June 1860. How early is this in the history of wedding photography? Has anyone come across such a history? Many thanks!
Read more…http://www.fotoplatz.stereographie.de/wme/ http://www.fotoplatz.stereographie.de/stwrld-WmE/ Does anyone know, where I can find stereographs of William England's stereograph Number 32 - title unknown (Serie 'The Rhine and its Vicinity)? Original wou
Read more…As some members know, I am curating an exhibition in honour of Camille Silvy (1834-1910). It will be held in 2010 to mark the centenary of Silvy's death. The exhibition will be produced by Jeu de Paume, Paris, and will travel to the National Portrait
Read more…Tracing Talbot… Over the past decade I have been putting together a referenced chronology tracking all of WHF Talbot's movements, covering, in particular, his travels around mainland Europe. A substantial amount of work was done by my friend and col
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