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I have been working on building a database of early photographic works, been doing this for about a decade.The database is currently running off of a thumb drive and is pushing 75GB. The database is…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by M. Valleton Jun 28, 2021.
I've been working on my memoir, Light Writings, which is semi-memoir and personal essays. I've always been hooked on trivia that has a "Gee, that's interesting aspect to it."I was doing some more…Continue
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W.J. Harrison (A History of Photography, 1897, Percy Lund Country Press, London) in 1895, wrote this in his article: Anthony's Photographic Bulletin 1896, pg…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Peter Domankiewicz Oct 11, 2021.
The Pilot DatabaseI’ve been giving some thought to this and would like to discuss the possibility transferring ownership of my database to some organization. This would be a free donation, if you…Continue
Started this discussion. Last reply by Richard Sullivan HonFRPS Aug 28, 2017.
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Folks, I need some feedback, and not necessarily some attaboys. It’s called Fifty Prints but at this point is only 23. Maybe 25 is enough? This is in 2nd draft mode, and somewhat formatted. At first I thought of self publishing it, but now thinking maybe finding a publisher, or an agent if…
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The Pictorialist Movement in photography took place in a parallel time frame to the Arts and Crafts Movement. However, though both were shunned by the academic arts establishment, the A&C movement never embraced photography, perhaps in small ways, but never fully. My take on this is that the A&C Movement was fully engulfed in Medievalism, which was antithetical to photography.
There were separate movements in Pictorial Photoraphy like the Photo-Secession or the Linked Ring,…
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The following is a rough draft describing my latest project, well late, as I have been working on this for quite a few years now. I would appreciate any comments you may have as I eventually, by year's end, to put it on the market. I hope I am not violating any rules here due to this being a commercial project, much the same as a book might be.
I get the sneaking suspicion…
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Thanks for the reply Dick, you have stimulated me to think about quite a big conversation that I would like to be having... I grew up as a commercial photographer in the world of Ektachrome 64 and consequently bypassed the whole b&w print issue and stopped printing and processing when I couldn't cope with the volume, coming back later via projects and with the advent of digital a return to craft, I've now got a 20" x 24" hand-built camera and a selection of old aero reconnaissance lenses as well as a taste for wet collodion, and have also many other formats as well as Hasselblad 50mp back. My question is really how to achieve the best results in the darkroom and using alt process without doing it all myself, as I feel that therein lies the road to ruin, I have found collaborators but it's basically too expensive unless I am getting well funded through public commissions/projects and commercial work, would be great to hear your thoughts, have a look at the Parzival pictures on my website, this is the narrative that I want to amplify through the prints, yet at the moment I can only make digital prints of them...best wishes David
Hi Dick,
That is probably the general impression seeing as I have lived here for seventy years but I am in fact a Yorkshireman who possibly is relatively unusual in having no Irish ancestry.. I did however have an Irish stepfather and that is how I ended up in this country.
All that aside, I wanted to say that you do not deserve a medal for this gargantuan contribution to photographic research but in fact a whole chestful of medals. I knew you were doing this work as I remember you copying material when you were here with us but I never imagined that it could be so all-encompassing. I am overwhelmed with admiration and cannot imagine how the photo-historical world can thank you sufficiently, not even a bar on your Hon FRPS, in military terms, would seem enough to me. Perhaps the RPS could strike a special medal?
I suppose the next stage is to find out how to access the material.
Incidentally my Fourth Earl book is getting close to publication, it would be great if you could be back at the castle for the launch which I hope will be next year.
Congrats again,
David.
There is no family connection, sadly.
Michael.
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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