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Photographic auction catalogues

The perennial problem, pressure on space, forces the reluctant disposal of about 325 Sotheby's and Christie's London and New York catalogues covering four decades - almost but not quite a run, but a research treasure, nevertheless. Please contact me

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Richmond or Chicago?

This set of half steroes is titled 'American Civil War - Ruins of Richmond, Virginia, 1862.' However we have a second identical set marked 'Ruins of the Fire in Chicago.'  Can any-one confirm which is correct and give any other information such as th

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Photographic Societies

Dear friends,

 

I am presently starting my research about photographic associations in XIX / early XX centuries. In fact, it is my intention to focus it in one of the oldest associations of Spain (Agrupació Fotogràfica de Catalunya founded in 1923).

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The Combined Societies

In an historiographical essay in his recently published book on The Gernsheim Collection, Roy Flukinger refers in passing to Gernsheim's association with the so-called Combined Societies The Combined Societies - established at a meeting in Cheltenham

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article by Gerry Badger

Does anyone one know in which publication the article by Gerry Badger entitled "On British Photography, Some Personal Thoughts" was first published?
I assume it was the BJP in 1978 but can't be sure.
Any more precise information would help me greatly!
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Frederick Scott Archer

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

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Dr William Delano Walker

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

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