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Horace Walter Nicholls was born on 17 February 1867 in Cambridge, the son of Charlotte (née Johnson) and Arthur N. Nicholls, a professional photographer. [1] The family had roots in Norfolk, and his paternal grandfather John Nicholls, of Grantchester, was an architect and restorer of historic buildings. By the age of fourteen, Nicholls was ...
During the early twentieth century, Horace Nicholls (1867-1941) was one of Britain’s best known photographers. After working as a portrait photographer in Chile and Windsor, Nicholls moved to South Africa where he photographed the 2nd Anglo-Boer War. In 1902, Nicholls returned to Britain, where he established his reputation as a photojournalist.
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May 9, 2018 · The photographs are by Horace Nicholls, the webmaster’s grandfather. And after half a century of snoozing gently in the vaults of the Imperial War Museum, the Royal Photographic Society and the family’s various lofts, Horace’s photographs are once more seeing the light of day – and Horace himself is gaining recognition as one of the founders of modern photojournalism.
HORACE W NICHOLLS 1867 - 1941
Horace W. Nicholls. Photographer. 1867 - 1941. Born in Cambridge in 1867, Horace Walter Nicholls was the eldest of ten children. His father, Arthur Nicholls, was an artist in watercolours and a photographer. In 1876 the family moved to Sandown in the Isle of Wight where Nicholls began learning his future trade in his father's studio.
Feb 27, 2017 · 17 February, 2017 marked the 150th anniversary of the birth of an important and yet comparatively little-known British photographer. Perhaps more than any other photographer, Horace Nicholls has shaped our perception of Britain during the first decades of the twentieth century. Even though his name is probably unfamiliar, you will almost ...
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Jul 2, 2019 · Nicholls and Wood were most likely unaware of this longer history of facial repair, but they would have been attuned to the stigma of the missing or sunken nose associated with syphilis. In Gaston Leroux’s ‘Phantom of the Opera ’, the Phantom‘s disguises include a “long, thin, and transparent” nose and another made of pasteboard with a moustache attached.
