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"Hello Michael. I have found corroborative evidence not only for the location but for the possible date proffered. You are right it is difficult to identify these beach wet plates but they are full of incredible detail and some surprises. To the…"
"Sad news. We exchanged a few words and I found Stephen at all times a most pleasant man and an absolute expert in his field."
"Hello Michael and Robert,
I did the identification of the subjects and the identification of venue and the likely date of it's execution.
All images bearing the mark KASTORYANO ORIGINAL are identifications of sitters, subjects and/or places by me…"
I did the identification of the subjects and the identification of venue and the likely date of it's execution.
All images bearing the mark KASTORYANO ORIGINAL are identifications of sitters, subjects and/or places by me…"
"Looking at the family picture of two males and three females dressed in Welsh costume it is apparent from Welsh census data there is a match for their sex and apparent ages in Johns family. See below:
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This is a found UK wet plate collodion. It is a beach momento and like all such photgraphs an informal - for the time - snapshot in time. This is a fine example of 1880's black tent and wet chemical beach photography. It is the photographic…
"This one image of the photographer as sitter is identifiable as a pioneer of photography in Wales:"
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David,
The b&w photo of the College Street house in Bristol you posted, demolished by Bristol Corporation as was all the street although protected, proved not to be the birthplace of Wm F-G, although for years it was believed to have been, until Reece Winstone FRPS, organiser of the 1955 centenary of F-G's birth - Bristol end, sought clarification from the City Architvist. She advised that the street had been renumbered and that the birthplace was a double-fronted house at the back of the Council House (now 'City Hall'), no 12 College Street. See Bristol As It Was 1953-56 by Reece Winstone, pp 33-45 for fully illustrated story.
John Winstone - www.reecewinstone.co.uk