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A friend from Sunderland has given me an album of thirty cartes de visite assembled in 1888. The eleven photographers whose work is represented were located in small towns throughout County Durham. The majority were in Sunderland, probably because this was the county's largest town and a major sea port. One picture stands out from the rest in that the pose is more natural, with the subject seemingly unaware of being photographed, in contrast to the hard stares of most of the others in the album. This picture was taken by Madame Brunner, presumably Clementina Brunner nee Grant, 1833 - 1887. On the back she describes herself as a "Pupil of Mayall Photographer to the Queen" . Her address, 32 Fawcett Street, places her in the centre of the town's most important commercial street. She was clearly not only a pioneering lady photographer but also one who had a very distinct style and a confident approach to the business aspect of her work.
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Madame Brunner is among 70 or so photographers exhibited in
Eleventh Annual Exhibition of the Photographic Society of London, May 1865. Perhaps elsewhere - be interested if you know others.
Centre for British Photography
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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