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  Steven Evans May 25, 2022 13:13

  Hello Anthony,

  I am confounded by a few photographic views of the Crystal Palace that I have in my collection. I have attached the most confounding example along with a comparison image.

  As you can see, the print  (image on the left) is in miserable condition and has a softness that makes examining details a bit difficult. I believe this to be a lightly coated salt print and I am assuming for the moment that it was taken by Ferrier. It is mounted on an album page with hand drawn rules and a handwritten caption. In comparison to other published examples of this view it has some very noticeable differences, especially the seemingly over-sized dimensions of 20cm X 19cm.

  I am wondering if you have seen any other examples of this view that is so noticeably different from the version published in the Reports? Given the difference in dimensions from other known views, Is it possible that this image was taken with a different camera? Maybe even produced by a different photographer?

  Any thoughts you have about this print will be greatly appreciated.

  Thank you and best regards,

  Steven 

  

  
• Noorie February 24, 2018 18:51

  I am reading ‘Collecting the American West’ (are you the author?) . I am living in the Blackmore Museum.
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  Ivete Batista da Silva Almeida April 19, 2011 17:58

  Hello, Professor Hamber.

   

  I am studying the processes of photomechanical reproduction in the nineteenth century in Brazil. Read your texts over England and I have a question: how was the photographer’s situation in the second half of the nineteenth centrury? Here in Brazil, we had some photographers like Leuzinger or Marc Ferrez who were highly respected and famous in the second half of the nineteenth. And in England? Just the image was ‘a celebrity’ or the photographer was a celebrity too?