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Hello! I am looking for any information concerning Jacques Galitzenstein, a photographer (possibly Austrian) who was based in Cairo towards the end of the nineteenth century. He also seems to have sometimes operated under the banner of the Anglo-American Photography studio. I am particularly interested in his photographs of travellers in Arab clothing.

Please feel free to contact me either by replying to this blog post or by sending me an email at steph.hornstein[at]gmail.com.

Thank you!

Stéphanie

The latest issue of Scientia Canadensis deals with photography, science, technology and practice with a series of papers covering these themes. Each is available to freely download. The papers comprise: 

Photography: Science, Technology and Practice / Joan M. Schwartz

“Coils of Sunshine”: Charles Smeaton’s Magnesium-Wire Photography in the Catacombs of Rome, 1866-1867 / John Osborne

At the Cutting Edge of Halftone Printing: William Augustus Leggo and George Edward Desbarats / Kate Addleman-Frankel

“Perfect Dry Plates for Canada”: Gelatine Dry-Plate Manufacturing in Canada in the Late Nineteenth Century / Shannon Perry

Photography in the Arctic Archipelago during the First International Polar Year, 1882–1883 / Marthe Tolnes Fjellestad

Early Canadian Aerial Photography: The St Croix River and the International Boundary, 1921 / Dirk Werle

Seeing, Saving, and Remembering Barnardo’s Children: Technologies of Access and Preservation in Historical Research / Nina Lager Vestberg

Conceptualizing ‘Science’ in the Photography Collections at the National Science and Media Museum / Geoffrey Belknap

Photography: Science, Technology, and Practice in Nineteenth-Century Canada / Joan M. Schwartz

Scientia Canadensis
Volume 44, numéro 1, 2022 Photography: Science, Technology and Practice
Available via this link: https://www.erudit.org/fr/revues/scientia/2022-v44-n1-scientia07177/

Photographs and archives are participants in and products of discursive practices: photographs configure the meaning of place, and archives shape the meaning of photographs. How can we use the notion of place better to understand photographic archives as both defined by and empowered by intersecting discursive practices? In this paper, I consider photographs of place, as place, in place, and out of place in archives as a way to investigate photographs as primary sources from a perspective informed by geographical concerns, archival theory, and institutional practice. 

Joan Schwartz is Professor Emerita in the History of Photography & Nineteenth-Century Visual Culture at Queen’s University, Ontario and currently Visiting Leverhulme Professor in the Centre for GeoHumanities at Royal Holloway, University of London. Her career has combined the roles of historical geographer, archival theorist, and photographic historian. As co-editor of Picturing Place (with James R. Ryan) and of Archives, Records, and Power (with the late Terry Cook), her work focusses on photography and the geographical imagination and on archives as spaces of power. She is currently completing a four-year project, "Picturing Canada: photographic images and geographical imaginings in British North America, 1839-1889," funded by SSHRC.

Photographs of place, as place, in place, and out of place in archives
Hybrid | Online-via Zoom & IHR Wolfson Room NB01, Basement, IHR, Senate House, Malet Street, London WC1E 7HU
2 May 2023, 5:30PM - 7:00PM
Free, book here: https://www.history.ac.uk/events/photographs-place-place-place-and-out-place-archives

Photographer Ans Westra had a long and rich relationship with the Alexander Turnbull Library, depositing her significant collection of documentary photographs over many years. Following her death on 26 February 2023 Turnbull staff members Mark Strange (Senior Conservator Photographs) and Paul Diamond (Curator Māori) reflected on her legacy. You can read their blog on the National Library of New Zealand website and browse Ans' digitised work.

Many other tributes were paid to Ans' by the photographic community and the arts and culture sector, including this blog by Athol McCredie (Curator of Photography at Te Papa Museum of New Zealand).  {Suite} Gallery are the agents for Ans' work, and their site includes more biographical information, examples of her extensive photographic legacy and a link to the recording of her funeral.

An exciting role at the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, is available. The Turnbull collection is among the most pre-eminent photographic archives in Aotearoa New Zealand.  It contains around 1,600,000 items from the 1840s to the present,

The Curator Photographic Archive manages the Photographic Archive, taking responsibility for developing the photographic collection through donation and purchase, strategically developing and maintaining collection plans, engaging and negotiating with donors, providing research services, undertaking outreach activities, developing proposals for digitisation and exhibition programmes. 

For more information about the collections see https://natlib.govt.nz/collections/a-z/photographic-archive

For details of the position see https://fa-eqqg-saasfaprod1.fa.ocs.oraclecloud.com/hcmUI/CandidateE...

Applications close: 17 April 2023.

This is the reverse of a Kodak factory print from no later than 1889. I am trying to decipher the codes used and would appreciate any suggestions - however determined - as to their possible meaning. This image was produced in the US. They may be annotations familiar to collectors or photo specialists.

A 1927 copy of Photographic Facts and Formulas by EJ Wall, FRPS has yielded an unexpected link to the celebrated photography firm of Ramsey & Muspratt. Signed on the flyleaf 'P.A.L. Brunney,' and once owned by the Department of Geography at Cambridge University

Can you help trace its journey to my local 2nd hand bookshop in Berwick upon Tweed? http://pressphotoman.com