Did anyone attend the 'Industrial Image' exhibition hosted by the Photographers' Gallery between 5th December 1986 - 31st Jan 1987 or its subsequent touring shows in Nottingham Castle Museum, Bradford Industrial Museum, Billingham Art Gallery, Bristo
Read more…I am currently researching the impact the the introduction of the Kodak Box Brownie, not only on photography but on broader social history too. I have found some resources online and the insight collection at Bradford to be helpful in my research so
Read more…I went along to 'Amsterdam 1845-1875: The first photgraphs' ( http://stadsarchief.amsterdam.nl/ ) in Amsterdam last week. A truly stunning exhibition. Also stunning archive centre! Go if you can. When there, go along to the Rembrandt House, where
Read more…I am currently writing a book on the History of Astrophotography, called ‘Catchers of the Light’.
Although it is about astronomical photography, it will include chapters on early photographic pioneers like Frederick Scott Archer.
When I began res
Read more…I have been looking into the available documentary sources for Archer's life.
Hi,
Can anyone help on this ?
I writing an essay and found a mention on one site as follows :
"In post war Britain, between 1946 to 1969 the Arts Council only funded three photographyexhibitions."
Can anyone give me more information about
Read more…Dr Walker, an Australian, arrived in England in the late 1920s. He was a keen photographer earning a medal from the RPS for a series of images of 'The Life History of the Kangaroo'. He gave lectures in England illustrated with his own lantern slides
Read more…Hi everyone, I'm doing a PhD in Australia on irony and death in photography and I'm trying to place when irony was first used intentionally by an author/photographer in the depiction of death, real or pretend, does anyone have any ideas? Jay Ruby's b
Read more…There is new to fashion, photography, and fashion photography than meets the eye. Always remember that the craft and the business are beyond the realms of taking good photos, models, clothes, and products. Also remember that being a fashion photograp
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I'm researching the life of Frederick Scott Archer. According to one website Frances, (Fanny), Archer, his wife, spoke about his early life. I'm looking for the original source of this information, the name and date of the historical document.
Does anyone know of anywhere in the world which offers a BA course on the History of Photography? All I can find are places that offer it as an MA
Read more…I have a query about reversing mirrors/prisms that could be used as an attachment in front ofthe lens on an early daguerreotype camera. If the photographer did not want the photographic image to be reversed from the way it appeared in real life, he
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I am trying to locate copyright holders for the following photographers:
Winifred Casson (British, 1908-1969)
Katherine Mary Parsons (British, 1883-?)
Mark Neven du Mont (British, act. 1940s & 1950s)
Thank you for any assistance!
Linda Briscoe M
The London branch of the firm A Marion, Son & Co was
advertising its collection of celebrity cartes-de-visite (amongst
other things) in the pages of the Daily Southern Cross (NZ) in 1865,
“catalogues sent on application". Does anyone out there know wher
Since posting news of the research into Ifor & Joy Thomas (Guildford School of P hotography) we have been delighted with the response which is already in. Several members of the family are now 'in the frame' - excuse pun- and Jack & I have had our fi
Read more…I am looking for any information about The London School of Photography and William Smorthwaite, Proprietor from 1870-1876. Also looking for information about his son William Joseph Smorthwaite, photographer in St Catharines, Ontario, Canada. Also Em
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Does anyone know of the existence of a portrait of daguerreotypist
William Edward Kilburn, or for that matter any of his brother Douglas
Thomas Kilburn who worked in Australia other than the one taken by J.
W. Beattie?
Cheers!
Marcel
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Mar
Hello all,
This leather-cased Claudet daguerrotype is dateable to c.1843-8.
On the gilt or brass frame a name is stamped: 'I.GUY'. I haven't found anything online to explain this, but I am assuming that this may refer to the frame maker?
Have any
Read more…Does anyone know if any copies of the catalogue of the 1893 Photographic Salon exhibition survive, and if so, what libraries hold them?
Many thanks
Giles Hudson
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