Alexander Bassano established "one of the most important photographic studios of the Victorian era. His sitters included royalty, aristocracy, politicians, and leading names from the military, sciences and arts". Over 2,000 glass negative plates from the Bassano studio are housed at the National Portrait Gallery in London. Yet so little is known about the man, and the development of his studios. Bassano: The Making of a Court Photographer chronicles Alexander's life: his childhood in a musical, creative family; theatrical and artistic connections that shaped his early days; his previously unknown career on the pantomime stage; the influences that drew him towards photography, and the consequent establishment of the studios that bore his name.
BASSANO The making of a court photographer
Richard Peroni
80-pages, £12.91
Privately published, July 2020
ISBN-13: 979-8660004827
Available on Amazon.
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