As BPH hinted at the beginning of February there are changes coming at Impressions Gallery. The Gallery is to relocate pending finding a permanent space and its long-time director Anne McNeill is stepping down. Impressions Gallery will take up…
The Kent County Council Art Collection began to be sold off at auction in 2025. A sale in July last year sold around 350 lithographs, linocuts, screenprints, etchings, wood cuts and engravings. Advice from an unnamed art historian was that the…
A photograph of Oscar Wilde on his death bed in Paris on 30 November 1900 has sold for £279,800 (inc premium) against a presale estimate of £2000-3000. The megnesium flash lit photograph was taken three hours after Wilde's death by Gilbert Maurice…
"Yes that's right. The lcoal people seemed to get it compared to some of the critics. "
The V&A’s Royal Photographic Society (RPS) Collection holds around 290,000 photographs. It includes all kinds of original processes, from albumen prints and early colour works to lantern slides and classic gelatin silver prints – all unique…
The National Stereoscopic Association is pleased to announce its seventh annual 'Sessions on the History of Stereoscopic Photography' at the 52nd annual 3D-Con on 16 July, 2026, to be held at the Clyde Hotel, 330 Tijeras Avenue NW, Albuquerque, New…
10×10 Photobooks is pleased to announce a new grant cycle and call for applications as part of its annual photobook research grants program to encourage and support scholarship on under-explored topics in photobook history. For this cycle, 10×10 is…
PHRC is pleased to announce the second season of its Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage, a free, online series of talks and discussions exploring photography’s intersections with politics, technology, and cultural production.…
The Times Literary Supplement in an essay by Maria C Scott reports on the discovery of portraits by the Parisian studio of Nadar of Jeanne Duval, the long-term mistress of Charles Baudelaire and the 'Black Venus'. Scott examined the portraits and…
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Hello! Thank you for the biographical information on my great, great, great grandfather, Jacob Katzman. What do you recommend as next steps on trying to track down any of his photography?
Don't you take any criticism on board. The present set up casts no credit on this organisation or myself.
It may be that somewhere on this site you have left some helpful instructions.If so I can't see it.
My telephone number is 020 8908 5124.
Regards
Jack Gordon
I am upset by the effects of my tiny pictures on my four entries .
Should I withdraw them as a whole and start again?
If so how do cancel anything of my submissions?
Regards,
Jack Leonard Gordon
The International Directory of Photo Historians has settled in a new home with hopes of stability in location, format, and function. The change coincides with the retirement from teaching of William Allen. At http://classyarts.com/photohistorians/photohistorians.php one may search the directory, add and edit one's entry, and communicate with other historians. The new directory protects the privacy of contact information (including email addresses) for participants. I hope that you and your colleagues will share this information.
Dear Michael,
First, let me thank you for the BPH site, it has proven to be an invaluable resource for an American collector of British Photographs, and I have "met" many experienced and generous experts here.
I am however, a bit alarmed, do the "major changes" mentioned in your weekly update indicate that the site will soon be subscription based? That is certainly the impression I got. It would be such a shame after Luminous Lint changed into a monetized site, rather than an open and free exchange of ideas and knowledge.
Respectfully,
David McGreevy
Many thanks Michael - I'm delighted to have access to such a great site and resource. Is the Giles Duley talk open to the public? I'd love to come along if so. I am now Professor at the School of Journalism at Cardiff University. Until his recent retirement Daniel Meadows led our work on documentary photography - I'm looking for ways to continue to keep the School actively engaged...Best, Richard
Dear Mr. Pritchard,
I am looking for information about the beginings of Automat Photography. In particular about the first who was take a British Patent E.J. Ball 16,136. Nov. 23, 1887: Automatic coin-freed apparatus.(“Patents for Inventions vol. II, Abridgments of Specifications, class 98, Photography Great Britain Patent Office, Reprint Edition 1979 Arno Press, A New York Times Company”).
This is all the information that I have about this inventor. I have also a patent from 1900 of the United States and that I believe is attached to the same inventor US657505%5B1%5D.pdf
Do you know more information about this inventor.
Thank you very much.
Thanks for the comment on the Turner post, Michael - I've amended it accordingly.
Hi Michael,
It was lovely to catch up briefly in May. Sorry it was all so rushed.
You are doing a great job here ... and elsewhere! Well done! Keep it up
Tony Hilton
Hallo Michael, Thanks for the regular Newsletter. Is there any way of recalling earlier versions? A recent issue had a review of the Princeton University book by Roger Taylor on Lewis Carroll and I would be interested in reading it again. Thanks.
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