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Hi Everyone...I hope that some of you might be interested in Frederick Evans lantern slides. I had the opportunity to go to the Centre for Creative Photography in Arizona to study his Lincoln Lecture lantern slides along with his lecture notes.
I have written about them in this article published in JSAH (Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians) https://doi.org/10.1525/jsah.2021.80.2.161  Though written from an architectural history perspective I have included a lot of research on Evans's lantern lectures which some of you might enjoy. It also includes a contact sheet layout of all of the slides in sequence which is nice to see.

Dervla MacManus
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12201175873?profile=originalAn upcoming talk at the Chau Chak Wing Museum (University of Sydney, Australia) may be of interest to readers:

John Henry “Harry” Iliffe OBE FSA (1902-1960) was a British classical archaeologist and the first keeper of the Palestine Archaeological Museum (Rockefeller Museum) in Jerusalem. As an official of the foreign Mandate administration, Iliffe occupied a privileged position in Jerusalem society, and played a key role in the development of the Museum and the archaeological landscape of Palestine up to the end of the Mandate in 1948. Later, Iliffe excavated for several seasons at Kouklia (Paleo-Paphos) on Cyprus with TB Mitford. Iliffe’s archive, including photographs, papers and diaries, is held by the University of Queensland’s Fryer Library, after being donated by members of his extended family in 2012. The RD Milns Antiquities Museum holds three antiquities that were also part of the Iliffe collection and in 2019 collaborated with the Fryer Library to produce the exhibition “Contested Histories: Photographs from Mandate Palestine in the JH Iliffe Collection”.

Exploring the archives of JH Iliffe
Speaker: James Donaldson
Date: Thursday 19 August, 6.30pm AEST |  0930 (BST) | 1030 (CET)
Registration essential; more information here.

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12201172281?profile=originalThrough the good offices of the author, John Hannavy, the last remaining copies of his book The Victorian Photographs of Dr. Thomas White and John Forbes White are available to purchase from the RPS (at the link below) at a price of £12 including postage. 

A major biography of two of Scotland's leading pioneer amateur photographers in the 1850s, illustrated throughout in colour from prime examples of their surviving salted paper prints. The images have been drawn from major collections in the UK, USA and Canada.

Written and researched by John Hannavy The Victorian Photographs of Dr Thomas Keith and John Forbes White explores the life and work of two of Scotland's most important early photographers. Interest in the early Waxed Paper photography of Thomas Keith and John Forbes White has increased considerably over the years and this book involves a major reappraisal of the work of these two eminent amateurs. 

A great deal of significant work has been undertaken by numerous researchers on mid-19th century Scottish photography in the past thirty years, making it possible now to place the work of these talented amateurs within the much more clearly understood context of early photography in Scotland.

Examples of the superb work of both men will be drawn from collections in Europe, Canada and America, including many images rarely if ever seen before. It will be illustrated throughout in colour to capture the unique character of mid 19th century salted paper prints.

The book is 144 pages, 265 x 210mm landscape format, casebound, and with full colour illustrations of nearly two hundred images by Keith and White and their immediate circle, as well as examples of the work of the earliest pioneers of Scottish photography.

Details and to purchase: https://rps.org/shop-items/the-victorian-photographs-of-dr-thomas-white-and-john-forbes-white/

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Seeking photographs; Fitzrovia, London

12201171462?profile=originalGray Levett, who will be best known to many as the owner of Nikon specialists Grays of Westminster, has also had a long career as a photographer.  He is working on a project that covers life around Fitzrovia, in and around the Fitzroy area of London  between 1957 and 1960. and is  looking for images such as the transport, the pubs, the shops and the people.

He would welcome information concerning any any commercial photographers who may have been working in the area or collections of such images. 

Gray can be reached at: gray@graysofwestminster.co.uk  

 

 

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12201164653?profile=originalAs part of Birmingham Heritage Week there will be a display Taking and displaying the photograph which will show one  hundred years of cameras made in Birmingham, and how the city manufactured ways to show and display the resulting images.  It will be an opportunity to see mahogany wood and brass plate cameras through to cheap plastic snapshot cameras as well as the magic lanterns, projectors, photograph albums, frames and the images themselves that the cameras would have taken.

Library of Birmingham, Level 4, Heritage Learning Space Centenary Square, B1 2ND
16-18 September, from 1100-1700 daily

Free
https://birminghamheritageweek.co.uk/

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12201169700?profile=originalOn behalf of the Japan Society in London, a charity organisation promoting learning and understanding between Japan and the UK I wanted to invite you to our upcoming free online lecture on photographer Herbert Ponting. The lecture will explore the life and career of Ponting focusing on his work in Japan, but it will also touch upon his previous experience as photographer and filmmaker for Captain Scott’s second Antarctic Expedition (1910-13).

12201170695?profile=originalYou can find all the details and how to book on our page, or please let us know if you have any questions (events@japansociety.org.uk). We look forward to seeing you online at the lecture.

Best regards,

Alejandra, The Japan Society

 

In Search of Herbert Ponting in Japan, with author Anne Strathie
Monday 16 August 2021
Time  6.45pm (BST)
More information and to book: https://www.japansociety.org.uk/event?event=250

Images: Two views of Fuji-san: Ponting climbing upper slopes with guide, bearers and photographic equipment; from a distance, across Lake Motosu, with kaia grass in foreground (Photographs by Herbert Ponting, images © A. Strathie).

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12201169854?profile=originalDetails of the programme and registration is now available for Don’t Press Print 2: De/Reconstructing of nineteenth-century photomechanical reproduction which is being hosted by the Centre for Fine Print Research based at the University of the West of England and the Royal Photographic Society. 

See: https://rps.org/photomech

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12201175087?profile=originalThe Institute of Conservation (ICON) Virtual Open Studios and  Scottish Council on Archives has been running a series of practical online seminars with conservator Susie Clark. Under the banner of 'Getting to Grips with your Photographic Collection' it is aimed at professionals and the public. There are three recordings from the series so far: an introduction, daguerreotypes, ambrotypes and tintypes, and prints. More will be added in due course.

The recordings can be viewed here: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCiThZTWCUXGOedXkWH-kEXw

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12201161076?profile=originalThe 13th International Seminar on the Origins and History of Cinema is now open for registration and the programme published. The theme is virtual worlds in early cinema: devices, aesthetics and audiences It will take place online 20-22 October 2021.  Registration is open until October 15th

The programme can be seen here: https://www.girona.cat/shared/admin/docs/s/e/seminari_programa.eng.pdf and registration is here: https://museudelcinema.girona.cat/eng/institut_seminari_inscripcions.php

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12201159658?profile=originalWhen English Heritage launched Your Stonehenge: 150 Years of Personal Photos, an 1875 photo of the Routh family’s day out was the oldest family photo contributed to the exhibition. The charity issued a challenge for people to sort through their old photos and find an even earlier image.

Among the pictures sent in was a stereocard from the early 1860s, discovered in the collection of Queen guitarist Dr Brian May. The stereocard was discovered by curator Rebecca Sharpe as she worked through the digitisation of some 100,000 stereographs. Further research by her and her co-curator Dr Denis Pellerin have added to our knowledge of the photographer, Henry Brooks, of Salisbury.

Brooks was a commercial studio photographer and the card is believed to show his wife, Caroline, daughter, Caroline Jane, and son, Frank, in the early 1860s. The card was sold through his shop and this example eventually found its way in to May's collection. 

English Heritage is now searching for descendants of Henry Brooks and his family - presumably with a view to recreating the scene some 140 years later.  If you think Brooks may a forebear of your family tree, please contact EH at YourStonehenge@english-heritage.org.uk

Rebecca has blogged about the research process and you can read a detailed biography of Brooks based on her and Pellerin's research here: https://stereoscopy.blog/2021/08/03/oldest-family-photograph-of-stonehenge-found-in-the-collection-of-dr-brian-may-to-go-on-public-display-in-3-d/ Both parts of the stereocard can also be seen.  

There are, of course, earlier photographs  of Stonehenge, such a Sedgfield's views of 1857 but these do not fit the definition of family photographs. Unless you know better... 

Dr Brian May has what is believed to be world’s largest collection of over 100,000 in his archive This is now in a charity, The Brian May Archive of Stereoscopy,.to ensure this important resource stays together for future historians. 

See: https://www.english-heritage.org.uk/visit/places/stonehenge/things-to-do/exhibitions/yourstonehenge/

Image: Henry Brooks, Stonehenge with family members, one-half of a stereo pair, c.1860s. Courtesy: Brian May Archive of Stereoscopy. 

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12201164057?profile=originalMaud Sulter (1960-2008) was an award-winning artist, writer, curator and activist of Scots-Ghanaian heritage. Focussing specifically on her work as a lens-based artist, Professor Susannah Thompson will consider Sulter’s legacy in the context of Black British identity, feminism and recent Scottish art, as well as exploring the recent resurgence of interest in her work amongst an emerging generation of feminists and women of colour.

Susannah Thompson (pictured) is an art historian, writer and art critic based in Glasgow. Her research focusses on Twentieth century and contemporary art in Scotland, particularly the work of women artists, and on feminist approaches to art and visual culture. Forthcoming projects include a series of essays and events related to the painter Joan Eardley, essays on the sculptor Edmonia Lewis and the artist and critic Cordelia Oliver, and a range of activities on the theme of Scotland and Surrealism. Susannah was Director of Postgraduate Research and Co-Director of Visual Culture in the School of Art, Edinburgh College of Art before joining The Glasgow School of Art in 2017 where she is Professor of Contemporary Art and Criticism and Head of Doctoral Studies.

Annan Lecture 2021: Scots w’Afro: The Photography of Maud Sulter
21 August 2021 at 1800 (BST)
£5 (non-members)
Online
Book here: https://studiesinphotography.com/pages/annan-lecture-2021-scots-w-afro-the-photography-of-maud-sulter-with-professor-susannah-thompson

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12201173886?profile=originalThe National Stereoscopic Association's Sessions on the History of Stereoscopic Photography are a conference-within-a-conference presenting international scholarship on the history of stereoscopic photography. The online presentations are free to the public.

The Sessions on the History of Stereoscopic Photography at the 47th Annual 3D-Con will feature the following presenters:

Friday, August 13th / Session 1 — 7:30-9:20 AM PDT / 1530 -1720 (BST) / 1630-1820 (CET)

What did the Victorians See in the Stereoscope
Dr. Denis Pellerin, London Stereoscopic Society

A Victorian Visionary: The Untold Story of William England
Dr. Gerlind-Anicia Lorch, Independent Scholar

Excavating Views: "He Looks so Royal and Confident"
Dr. Neal Sobania, Pacific Lutheran University

From Stereoscopes to Reenactment: Visual Immersive Representations of the South African "Anglo Boer" War (1899-1902)
Mr. Santos Z. Roman. University of California, Riverside

Minstrelsy, Blackface, and Racialized Performance in Nineteenth-Century Stereoviews
Dr. Melody Davis, Russell Sage College

Session 2 — 9:35-11:00 AM PDT / 1735-1900 (BST) / 1835-2000 (CET)

Connecting the "Dots": Sears Roebuck’s Stereographs in Context
Dr. Leigh Gleason, UCR-Arts, University of California, Riverside

Selective Ignorance: (Un)Comfortable Visions of America in View-Master™ Stereographs
Prof. Patrick Alan Luber, University of North Dakota

Navigating the Atlantic — in 3D! Digitizing Domino Danzero’s Original 1900-1901 Stereograph Cards at Missouri State University
Ms. Shannon Mawhiney, Ms. Leslie James and Ms. Hannah Fuller, Missouri State University Library

The "Outlander Effect"
Dr. Peter Blair, Independent Scholar

Introduction to SuDagraphy and the Single Image Stereoscopic Auto‐Pseudographs
Ms. Ilicia Benoit

For full details and to book see: https://www.3d-con.com/history.php

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12201175652?profile=originalHeadstone Manor and Museum, which is close to Kodak's former factory at Harrow, is hosting a talk titled Kodak in BritainThe talk will look at some of the history of Kodak in Britain, the Harrow factory and museum, and some of the products that Kodak manufactured from 1890.

It will also look at the Kodak Historical Collection, now at the British Library, and how it moved from Harrow to the library – and what happened to it afterwards.

Kodak in Britain
3 August 2021 at 1400 (BST)
Click here to book: https://harrowarts.com/classes/hmm-tuesday-talk-kodak-in-britain-with-dr-michael-pritchard

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As part of my PhD research and in association with Collecting the West: How Collections Create Western Australia (University of Western Australia and Deakin University, ARC LP160100078) I have been tracing the first collections of photographs in Western Australia's state collecting institutions (WA Museum, Art Gallery of WA, State Library of WA, and State Record Office of WA).

This article, published in the Journal of the History of Collections, presents evidence for the composition of the 'foundational' photograph collections of Western Australia and their use, and places them in a global context of scientific exchange and Empire. This collection had strong ties to British collecting institutions and scientific communities, for example, through the Director and Curator of the institution, Bernard Woodward, nephew of Dr Henry Woodward, Keeper of Geology at the British Museum.

My investigation of these collections and the paths they may have taken across global networks of exchange is ongoing. If anyone knows of correspondence or collection items that may relate Western Australia's early photograph collections, please do get in touch.

Rebecca Repper, Foundational photographs: Photograph collecting in Western Australia’s early Museum and Art Gallery, Journal of the History of Collections, 2021;, fhab027, https://doi.org/10.1093/jhc/fhab027

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12201174865?profile=originalWilliam Fagan's illustrated online talk will celebrate the ongoing development of a new, interactive timeline of the history of photography in Ireland which is being developed by the Gallery of Photography, Ireland. He will share some of the key images in Ireland's photographic history and explore the stories behind them. Considering photography both as an art and a science, he will look at who took photographs and why they took them and how photography was used for good and otherwise, including some early examples of photographic 'fake news'.

He will also look at how photography has impacted on Ireland's visual knowledge and culture and will end at the present where everyone is now a photographer of some kind.

Illustrated history of photography in Ireland since 1839
William Fagan
Online, 17 August 2021 at 1930 (BST)
Free

https://www.galleryofphotography.ie/william-fagan-illustrated-talk

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12201173487?profile=originalTwo online talks take place this week look at different aspects of photographic history. On Wednesday, 28 July Dr Beatriz Pichel discusses some of the themes in her new book  Picturing the Western Front: Photography, Practices and Experiences in First World War France and on Thursday 29 July Betty Yao looks at John Thomson and his photography of Asia. 

12201174271?profile=originalBoth talks are free but require booking. Details are here: 

Dr Beatriz Pichel https://rps.org/WW1

John Thomson: https://rps.org/HistoricalJuly

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12201172698?profile=originalFor much of the twentieth-century, the contribution of William Friese-Greene to cinema was disputed. Having famously died at a meeting of cinema exhibitors with only the price of a cinema ticket in his pocket, cinemas around the country shut down their projectors to mark his funeral. The film The Magic Box – made for the Festival of Britain and released just before it closed in 1951 – told the story of Friese-Greene and his pioneering work and claimed him to be one of the inventors of moving images. By the time a plaque was unveiled at his birthplace in Bristol to mark the centenary of his birth in 1955, Friese-Greene’s reputation had begun to decline and some film historians said he was overrated, his inventions failed to move the technology forward, and he took ideas from others to claim as his own.

Film director and historian Peter Domankiewicz has spent over 20 years researching Friese-Greene and is about to start a PhD on the subject. He has discovered a different Friese-Greene: someone who should be credited with more than he has been to date, including his support of women photographers and his willingness to collaborate on projects. Domankiewicz is joined by writer and commentator Sir Christopher Frayling, one of Britain’s leading writers on cinema, to discuss Friese–Greene, early British cinema and The Magic Box. Both have contributed essays to the forthcoming Bristol Ideas’ book, Opening Up the Magic Box. The conversation will be hosted by Bryony Dixon.

Opening Up the Magic Box – a heritage element of the Film 2021 programme – marks the centenary of the death of Bristol-born film pioneer William Friese-Greene and the 125th anniversary of the first public cinema screening in Bristol, which took place at the Tivoli on 8 June 1896, as well as celebrating Bristol – a UNESCO City of Film since 2017.

Peter Domankiewicz and Christopher Frayling: Who was William Friese-Greene?
Sunday, 1 August 2021
1400-1500 (BST)
£8.50 full / £5.00 concessions / £5.00 under 24s, refugees and asylum seekers.

Bristol: Arnolfini
Book here: https://www.watershed.co.uk/whatson/10811/who-was-william-friesegreene#

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12201172068?profile=originalAutograph is seeking a consultant or consultants, to deliver a cataloguing and collection accreditation project for our unique photography collection, between October 2021 and October 2022.

This project offers a wonderful opportunity to get to know the Autograph holdings which are located at Rivington Place, London. The growing collection – a living archive – includes approximately 7,500 prints, 10,000 + negatives, 5,000 slides, archive film, several thousand digital and analogue contact sheets, plus related ephemera.

Please click here to download the Brief for Services, which sets out the history of our collection and its uses, the project deliverables, expected outcomes, required competencies, fee, timetable and tender process.

Tenders must be submitted by noon on 26 August 2021
Please send your tender to cherelle@autograph-abp.co.uk

For any questions about this opportunity please email holly@autograph-abp.co.uk in the first instance with a short paragraph outlining your query and provide a contact telephone number. Please note that queries will not be answered after 19 August 2021 due to annual leave.

Consultancy interviews will be held on 15 September 2021 either in person at Autograph, Rivington Place EC2A 3BA or via Zoom, subject to public health regulations in place in September.

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12201171455?profile=originalCurator Jan Brazier introduces the Australian women working in commercial photography 1850-1920. On 12 June 1871, the Illustrated Sydney News observed about 'Lady Photographers’  that the womanly attributes of ‘Delicacy, cleanliness, patience and … long suffering’ were the conditions essential for success for working in photography. Women certainly did work in commercial studios in a range of roles, yet uncovering their contribution is difficult.

This talk explores this history by looking at the stories of some of the women working in photography in Australia from the mid-19th to the early 20th century. It supports the exhibition The business of photography at Chau Chak Wing Musuem, Sydney. 

Thursday, 22 July 2021 at 1830 (AUZ) | 0930 (BST) | 1030 (CET)
Free
Detail and register here: https://www.sydney.edu.au/museum/whats-on/talks-and-events/out-of-focus.html

The exhibition can be explored here: https://www.sydney.edu.au/museum/whats-on/exhibitions/the-business-of-photography.html

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12201165087?profile=originalThe Golden Fleece is, in its opening statement, 'the home of The Creative Camera Archive, plus notes on photography, photographers and photographic ephemera'. It includes a searchable archive of Creative Camera 1-362  and DPICT issues plus a list of features.  Elsewhere it has resources on Tony Ray-Jones, Raymond Moore, Edwin Smith, Olive Cook and the Cambridge Darkroom.  Plus features on Frederick Evans, Hugo van Wadenoyen, Modfot One and Peter Soar. 

Details here: https://the-golden-fleece.co.uk/wp/

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