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The British Library has published a guest blog titled Revisiting Early Photography: Ethics, Legal Constructs, and the Seligmans’ Legacy. It is written by Shalini Amerasinghe Ganendra, Adjunct Professor at UNIMAS, Institute of Borneo Studies,…
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Debates on forced migration often assume that one is either a refugee or a citizen. To put it more starkly, refugees supposedly want nothing more than to relinquish their refugeeness and become instead, citizen. Accordingly, photographic…
Saturday
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Dave Shrimpton is a wet plate collodion photographer who uses vintage cameras to produce his art. He cites the work of Julia Margaret Cameron as his inspiration and says that upon viewing his first Cameron exhibition his “world changed for ever”.…
Friday
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The National Science and Media Museum will partly reopen to visitors on 8 January 2025 with a public programme and newly renovated foyer space, as well as returning favourites such as interactive gallery Wonderlab and the Kodak photography gallery,…
Nov 26
Michael Pritchard posted a blog post
Cartomania was a photographic phenomenon that seized the public imagination at the beginning of the 1860s. Small portraits, dubbed cartes-de-visite, were avidly exchanged with friends and family, quickly earning a reputation as 'the paper currency…
Nov 25
Michael Pritchard and Roger Watson are now friends
Nov 23
Michael Pritchard commented on Dr. Joe Rock's blog post Help with a camera...
"On behalf of Sara Stevenson who writes: 
Dear Joe
Good to hear from you!
The camera in this calotype is likely to have been made by Thomas Davidson, who made cameras for the circle in St Andrews, which David Brewster much admired. In Brewster’s…"
Nov 18
Michael Pritchard commented on Dr. Joe Rock's blog post Help with a camera...
"It looks like a standard box form camera for daguerreotype or calotype photography. Hard to determine the size but it doesn't look especially large, whole-plate or smaller. There's not quite enough detail to determine if it's a sliding box design.…"
Nov 17
Michael Pritchard posted a blog post
The Royal Society is hosting a free research seminar titled Women of science in the circle of Sir John Frederick William Herschel on Friday, 22 November 2024. The seminar is chaired by Professor Kelley Wilder. Speakers are: Emily…
Nov 15
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Nov 14
Michael Pritchard posted a blog post
Michel Auer, one for the most significant collectors and dealers of cameras and photography and a historian and supporter of photography, has died aged 91 years. Auer will be best known by some for his books on cameras and, latterly, for his…
Nov 10
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Nov 7
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A groundbreaking new tour tracing the footsteps of legendary 19th-century photographer John Thomson is set to launch this season. This unique journey offers photography enthusiasts, history buffs, and cultural explorers the chance to experience the…
Nov 6
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Leon Jacobson, a long-time collector and dealer in nineteenth-century cameras and photographs has died at the age of 101. He was among a number of dealers who turned an interest into a business, become one of a pioneering group of dealers in…
Nov 5
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Nov 3
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The Prix Pictet photography prize which hatnesses the power of photographyto draw global attention to issues of sustainability, has announced a five-year partnership with the V&A Museum, London. The Museum, which has hosted recent awards ceremonies,…
Nov 2
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