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Does anyone know anything about a photographer called Leopold Hirsch, who lived at 32, Belsize Park, NW3 some time during the 1950's ?Thank you very much.Continue
Started Jul 11, 2015
When did the RPS change the name of the "Pictorial Group" to the "Visual Art Group", and what prompted that change ?Thanks very much,Regards KelvinContinue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Kelvin Jouhar Jan 26, 2013.
Does anyone have any interest in the history of the Leica Postal Portfolios that started in the mid to late 1930's ? Were these portfolios one of the first widespread uses of the "miniature" camera…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Afzal Ansary May 30, 2011.
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It is 60 years ago this month since the first ever exhibition in the UK of Photography as a Fine Art was held in the Concert Suite at the Royal Festival Hall in London. Whilst photography had been recognized as a Fine Art by many galleries in USA, including The Eastman House and the Museum of Chicago, the “establishment” at the Royal Photographic Society in…
Posted on November 9, 2021 at 11:30
This week sees the 75th Anniversary of VE, so I thought I would just post this picture called “ V-E Night Impression” which was taken by my Grandfather in a West End pub on VE night. The picture was subsequently displayed at The London Salon.
In his notes, he writes :- “ Created by ‘time and flash’ exposure. The camera held in one hand with the…
ContinuePosted on May 5, 2020 at 18:00
On display from 28th Sept till 25th Oct at The Royal Automobile Club in Pall Mall will be 23 examples of SD Jouhar’s Fine Art Photography, all taken between approx. 1940 and 1960.
SD Jouhar was a strong advocate of Photography as a “Fine Art”, and there was considerable resistance to this idea amongst the “establishment” at the RPS during the 1950’s. In 1961, SD Jouhar and other like-minded photographers founded the Photographic Fine Art Association . Their definition of Fine…
ContinuePosted on September 25, 2018 at 19:00 — 1 Comment
You may not have seen, but last week Manohar Aich , the Indian bodybuilder died at the remarkable age of 104. He was known as the 'Pocket Hercules', as he was under 5 feet tall, but his feats were legendary and he won Mr Universe in 1952.
I mention this because when he came to London in 1952 he stayed with my Grandfather S.D.Jouhar, who took a series of pictures of…
ContinuePosted on June 14, 2016 at 19:00
Victoria and Albert Museum's photography collection
National Science and Media Museum
RPS Journal 1853-2012 online and searchable
Photographic History Research Centre, Leicester
Birkbeck History and Theory of Photography Research Centre
William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné
British Photography. The Hyman Collection
The Press Photo History Project Mapping the photo agencies and photographers of Fleet Street and the UK
The correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot
Historic England Archive
UAL Photography and Photography and the Archive Research Centre
Royal Photographic Society's Historical Group
www.londonstereo.com London Stereoscopic Company / T. R. Williams
www.earlyphotography.co.uk British camera makers and companies
Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock.
National Portrait Gallery, London
http://www.freewebs.com/jb3d/
Alfred Seaman and the Photographic Convention
Frederick Scott Archer
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