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I seem to have lost touch with Nancy Keeler who I knew during the time that he was living in Paris, which was some time ago. If anyone knows of her current whereabouts, in the US, I presume pleas send her my contact details

Michael Gray michaelgray@imageresearch.org

The National Media Museum in Bradford, part of the National Museum of Science and Industry, is looking for a Web Producer to lead the development of its website into a dynamic and world-leading online arena for inspiring involvement in the media.
With a background in either Web Content, Web Design, Web Development, or Web Project Management, you will understand how of all of these combine to create dynamic and compelling online user experiences, and have the drive and organisation to deliver innovative and effective online solutions to the needs of the Museum and its audiences. 
With experience of managing and developing high-volume, large-scale websites you will have a thorough understanding of the use of the web in cultural, commercial and learning contexts.
Reporting to the Head of Web, you will work with stakeholders across the Museum to ensure that online work is coordinated with our brand and our wider cultural output. While you will have a pro-active hands-on approach to delivering solutions, you will also coordinate the work of other specialist members of the Web Team and external agencies. 
Passionate about digital technologies and what they can do for users, you will be a key advocate for the potential of the web within the Museum, and for the needs of the Museum within the Web Team.
For more information and full job description please contact: recruitment@nationalmediamuseum.org.uk
Closing date for application: Friday 22nd July

Job ref: 29530 
Position: Web Producer 
Organisation: National Media Museum 
Location: UK, England, Bradford 
Closing date: 22/07/2011 d/m/y
Job Type: C 
Salary: £27,000

The National Media Museum is one of the leading museums in the north of England, receiving over 500,000 visitors a year and we want you to contribute to our ongoing success.
We are expanding our team and looking for extrovert, engaging and entertaining communicators to fill these stimulating roles. With your excellent presentation and performance skills and your keen interest in media, you will help bring the galleries to life for our diverse range of visitors. As part of the Explainer team in the Learning Department you will present live shows and gallery sessions as well as use your creative skills to develop and deliver art and media based activities for families and groups. It will be up to you to ensure visitors including families, school groups and teachers have an enjoyable, inspiring and educational visit.
If you have a passion for media, for communication, and for engaging children and adults of all ages, we’d love to hear from you. These posts are 4 days per week including one weekend day and there are a variety of shifts are available. 
For a full job description please email recruitment@nationalmediamuseum.org.uk

A landmark exhibition, which shows previously unpublished material from the Wittgenstein Archives and examines the role and importance of photography in the Wittgenstein family, and in his philosophical work can be viewed in Cambridge until next week.

Wittgenstein had a great interest in photography. In his writings there are numerous references to photography, which he uses to illustrate and clarify his arguments. He himself was a keen photographer and in the 1930s he created his own photo album. During his time as a primary school teacher and architect he carried out a number of photographic experiments together with his sisters and the court photographer Moritz Nähr, a friend of the family. Some of them are closely related to his philosophical work, for instance his experiment based on Francis Galton's composite photography, from which Wittgenstein subsequently developed his concepts of 'language game' and 'family resemblance'.

Ludwig Josef Johann Wittgenstein was born in Vienna, at one of the summer residences of the family on the outskirts of Vienna, in Neuwaldegg, on 26 April 1889. This exhibition marks the 60th Anniversary of his death in Cambridge on 29 April 1951.

If interested, details of this exhibition can be found here, with a news article here.

William McKinney was born at Sentry Hill in 1832. Besides being a farmer, McKinney was a man of many interests with an absorbing love of the countryside. This intense interest in his own locality was carried into his hobby of photography which he took up in the 1880's. He photographed not only his family and friends but also everyday life on the farm.

Sarah Edge is Professor of Photography and Cultural Studies at the University of Ulster where she is a member of the Centre for Media Research.  A new photographic exhibition of work by Professor Edge is now open for viewing featuring images exploring the ties between Ulster and its Scots heritage, focusing on the works of McKinney. Her work involves revisiting the sites of historical photographs, re-photographing them and comparing these images against information drawn from the original photographs. It aims to create debate about how a personal and community identity can be shown through photography. She also draws upon documents held in the William McKinney archive held in Sentry Hill, County. Sentry Hill was the home of the McKinney family, who came to Ireland from Scotland in the early 1700s.

Details of the exhibition can be found here, and some background information in the pdf below:

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Photo: Copyright Professor Sarah Edge

Mark Lampe, a respected commercial and artistic photographer, established the Tesla photographic studios in Wanganui (New Zealand) in 1908, having managed the Tasma studios in Hokitika after emigrating from Australia to New Zealand. He named the business after Nikolai Tesla, the eminent physicist, after whom a unit of light is called. Trained as an artistic photographer, Lampe was famous for his sharp attention to detail, unmatched technical ability, and ability to turn banal everyday subjects into visionary artistic photographs.

A generous $50,000 donation from an unnamed local benefactor made it possible for The Whanganui Regional Museum to purchase a collection of 80,000 acetate negatives from the Tesla Studios Collection 1928-1955 at a recent Dunbar Sloane auction in Wellington. As well as advertising and commercial photography, Mr Lampe recorded weddings, portraits and school photographs, floods, earthquake damage, parades, processions and ceremonies.

The Tesla collection is presently on exhibit at the Sarjeant Gallery which comprise of a wall display of 21 framed prints and four albums containing 100 smaller prints, and offers a sharp perspective of Wanganui life from 1930 to 155. It represents just a tip of the iceberg, as they were chosen from approx. 80,000 mainly cellulose acetate negatives, owned by Leigh Mitchel Anyon Photographer Ltd. A news report can be found here.

Photo: Lampe/Tesla Studios, Wanganui Collection 80,000 Photographic Negatives. Achieved $50,000 at auction.

Edis (1876-1955) took up photography in 1900 when she was given her first camera by her sister. She opened her studio in Church Street Sheringham in 1905 and by 1910 her photographs were appearing in national newspapers. She was one of the first women to use the autochrome process, which was invented in France in 1907, and even patented her own autochrome viewer known as a diascope. In 1919 she was commissioned by the Imperial War Museum as the only official woman photographer to record the war work of the women’s services. Examples of her work are held by the Imperial War Museum, the National Media Museum and the National Portrait Gallery.

The Cromer Museum with funding from the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA)/Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A) Purchase Grant Fund, The Art Fund and Friends of Cromer Museum were given the opportunity to purchase a collection of her rare photographs by a private owner, the late Cyril Nunn, who himself was a photographer in Sheringham and worked very closely with Olive Edis, back in late 2008 - as reported here.

A selection of these photographs taken by Edis between 1905 and 1955 are now on permanent display at Cromer Museum in Norfolk. They include stunning sepia images of Cromer and Sheringham fishermen and a rare series of autochromes, the first true colour photographs. Edis was famous in society for her portraiture and the collection also contains photographs of famous people including King George VI, David Lloyd George, Thomas Hardy and Cromer lifeboat hero Henry Blogg.

Photo: (Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy) by (Mary) Olive Edis (Mrs Galsworthy), or Katharine Legat (née Edis)

half-plate autochrome, 1900s. Copyight National Portrait Gallery, London.

Could someone tell me why this photograph shows all these spots? Is it a failure of the photographer to process it correctly? What exactly did the photographer do wrong? Many carte de visites I have by the photographers Ferrier and Rock also show this. They can be seen online here at :http://earlyotagophotographers.blogspot.com/2010/07/ferrier-and-rock.html

William Ferrier was born in Edinburgh on 20 August 1855.

John William Rock was born in Islington, London in 1848.