Check out this series of videos below by digital filmmaker and photographerRich Ferguson, created for the Edinburgh Libraries in the capital of Scotland. It’s a brief tour through the collection of early Victorian photography held by the libraries.
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Explore the story of the 19th century Derry photographer, James Glass. The exhibition includes some of his portrait images and his iconic images of Gweedore County Donegal, in the ‘Glass Album’.
Glass is often remembered for a unique series of photographs of the Gweedore and Cloughaneely areas, taken in the late nineteenth century.These photographs which have not been on display since they were first taken, are connected to the famous 1889 “Land War” trial of Fr McFadden and some of his parishioners following the killing of District Inspector Martin in Gweedore, Co. Donegal.
It is believed that James Glass was commissioned by the defence to take a series photographs depicting tenant life in Gweedore. These photographs subsequently became known as the Glass Album. This was the first use of photographs as evidence in an Irish court. There are two known copies of the Album – one in the collections of the National Museums of Northern Ireland, the other, belonging to a private collection, which on display for the first time in this exhibition,
The exhibition will be launched on Thursday at the Tower Museum at 7pm and will be open to the public until October 26. Admission is free. Further details can be found here and here and here too.
The first museum of its kind in Malaysia, as well as in South East Asia, recently opened its doors to the public. Local photography fans can now take a journey through the evolution of the camera from the 19th century to its present day at the Camera Museum located in a two-storey pre-war shophouse in George Town.
The museum is the brainchild of seven young people -- Tony Ch'ng, 34; Najieb Ariff Nazir Ariff, 34; Christopher Cheah, 30; Venus Khor, 28; Lance Ooi, 27; Paul Lee, 27 and Adrian Soh, 26 -- who are professional photographers and lovers of the art of photography. Only a month old, it has already hosted programmes for the Obscura Festival during the recent George Town Festival 2013.
The collection of over 300 cameras include include the century-old Brownie, Kodak's first commercial camera; a 150-year-old American-made folding camera; the Rolleiflex, and the Graflex Speed Graphic, the most famous press camera; a tiny World War II Soviet Union spy camera, the 1938 Argus camera; an antique Daguerreotype camera and the French-made Le Minimus stereoscope, the 3D picture viewer of yesteryears.
You can read the rest of the article here.
Photo: Camera Museum founders (copyright: New Straits Times)
New archive discovered in a second cousin's attic. Can you help with date and year of new images
Image 1 is believed to be of Frank Walton's two young daughters in late 1860's (Louisa and Emily Walton) and taken as tintype by Frank before he had a studio, so at fairgrounds probably in Lincolnshire or Warwickshire. Need expert opinion on the year the image was likely taken in terms of materials used, frame used and victorian dress of the children.
Image 2 is believed to Frank Walton's father, John Walton who was a Gingerbread Baker from Islington and Hackney who died in May 1860. Is the image from before 1860 in terms of dress and picture and frame styling ? It is not known if Frank would have taken this image.
Image 3 - is a nice imageof a young dark haired lady - touched up with ink maybe ? It cannot be Frank's mother who died in 1840 in Islington aged 35 in childbirth when he was 6. It could be his step mother Ann Walton or it coul be a picture of his young first wife who he married in Boston in 1858, Mary Ann Shaw.
Image 4 , the final image - is of an older man in a very early photograph. My family believe that this could be
Frank's father's father, also John Walton and a Baker, but who may have outlived his son. In 1850, he is likely to have been 80. Can you help with the year of the image ?
The next London Photograph Fair takes place this Sunday, 8th of September in the Holiday Inn Bloomsbury. Around 40 dealers are taking part; including first time participants Dinah May (www.dinahmay.com) and Café Royal Books (www.caferoyalbooks.com). Doors open to the public at 10 am, with admission priced at £3. As always a free voucher for free entry after 2pm can be obtained by emailing us on info@photofair.co.uk.
We have set provisional dates for some of next years events:
March 9th
May 25th
September 14th
November tba (Sunday before Paris Photo).
Image: Frank Meadow Sutcliffe, albumen print 8" x 5": £700
(Dinah May)
