The National Archives has updated its Records at Risk Grants programme and information and added details of past recent recipients. The scheme is delivered in collaboration with the British Records Association and the Business Archives Council, to…
BPH has just learnt of the passing of John Chillingworth yesterday, aged 97 years. As his website notes:
As a teenager, he made a traditional entry into Fleet Street at the height of the Second World War. His initial ambition had been to make the…
As a teenager, he made a traditional entry into Fleet Street at the height of the Second World War. His initial ambition had been to make the…
The French Ministry of Culture has issued a call for projects to commemorate the bicentenary of photography in 2026/27 and is issuing an official label for those projects. Photography is almost 200 years old. On this occasion, the Ministry of…
For 140 years, The Camera Club has been at the heart of photographic excellence, innovation, and artistic exploration. As the longest continuously running photography club in the world, we are proud to present The Art of Seeing – 140 Years of…
BBC Radio 4 Extra carried a series of programme related to photography on Saturday. They will be available for the next twenty-eight days. Catch up with:
The Photographer at Sixteen by George Szirtes George Szirtes reads his memoir
Conversation…
The Photographer at Sixteen by George Szirtes George Szirtes reads his memoir
Conversation…
Photograph albums of Victorian Britain have often been interpreted in terms of the social and familial networks of their compilers, but they also imply certain geographies – local and transnational, imagined and travelled – that are not always…
The LSE has launch its new digital library. Containing 500,000 pages of digital content freely available to search, browse and download, it is a significant step in furthering access to the LSE's collections to anyone who wants to use them. The…
The University of Oxford and the Bodleian Libraries have announced the endowment of the post of Bodley’s Librarian and Director of University Libraries, thanks to the generous philanthropic support of the Helen Hamlyn Trust. The trust has been a…
The British Film Institute is seeking a Curator and an Assistant Curator to join a team of archivists, a conservator and collections specialists in the BFI’s Special Collections team, working with one of the world’s most significant collections of…
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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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