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Sep 21, 2013 · The best source on London photographers 1841-1901, includes an extensive and detailed database of around 9000 London photographers (and allied trades) with plenty of biographical information. No longer updated but remains useful and plenty of references to more sources.
Sep 11, 2024 · The pioneering Scottish photographers Hill & Adamson used these methods very effectively and almost exclusively. They are also the first photographers to achieve artistic success with the process. The National Galleries of Scotland hold the largest collection of their work in the world.
If you have an old 19th century photograph with the name (and sometimes the address) of the photographer or photography studio on the back, you can research that photographer and/or studio. You will usually be able to find information on it online, or by calling the area’s local historical society, archives, or genealogy library.
- Travels in East Asia
- Photographic Processes
- Street Life in London
- London High Society
- Jumbo The Elephant
- John Thomson and The Archive
- Further Reading
In the early 1860s he decided to travel to Singapore to join his brother, who had set up a business as a watch-maker and photographer in the city 3. This began a ten-year period where Thomson travelled around East Asia documenting his experiences. He set up a photographic studio in Singapore and Penang, establishing himself as a portrait photograph...
Thomson showed a keen interest in how the art of photography was advancing during his career, and wrote about his own role in championing the use of photography in exploration. Thomson used the wet collodion process of photography, which was invented by F Scott Archer in 1848. It produced a high-resolution image, however it required the glass plate...
On this return to England, John Thomson turned his attention to the people of London and collaborated with socialist journalist Adolphe Smith. Together they photographed and interviewed people they met on the streets of London – including locksmiths, flower sellers, shoeblacks, labourers, cabmen, dustmen and musicians – building up a detailed pictu...
Apart from an expedition to Cyprus in 1878 when Thomson became the first photographer to survey the island, he remained in Britain for the rest of his life. While Street Life in Londonwas no doubt Thomson’s most successful and well-known work, he made his living in London by photographing members of British high society. He set up a portrait studio...
One set of photographs stands out among John Thomson’s copyright records. These are seven photographs taken of Jumbo, a famous African elephant who lived at London Zoo, all registered in March 1882. Jumbo was famous for his size (the term ‘jumbo’, used to describe something large in size, derives from his name) and he was popular for carrying child...
John Thomson continued writing about photography and in particular its usefulness as a tool for exploration. He became an Instructor in Photography for the Royal Geographical Society in 1886 and was elected a Life Fellow in 1917. He kept up with advances in photographic processes and continued to publish in various journals including the British Jo...
John Thomson, Illustrations of China and its people (1874): https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Illustrations_of_China_and_Its_People Through the Lens of John Thomson – Worldwide Photography Exhibition Tour: http://www.johnthomsonexhibition.org/ Michael Wood, The Chinese photographs of John Thomson (1837-1921), seminar held at SOAS University of London ...
View from the Window at Le Gras 1826 or 1827, believed to be the earliest surviving camera photograph. [1] Original (left) and colorized reoriented enhancement (right). The history of photography began with the discovery of two critical principles: The first is camera obscura image projection, the second is the discovery that some substances ...
www.earlyphotostudios.uk is a non-commercial web site for local and family historians, listing photographers operating 1840-1916, in Cambridgeshire, Huntingdonshire, Leicestershire, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Rutland and Suffolk.
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A Century of Historic Photographic Types. The Historic England Archive is a great place to discover historic photographic types. Here we illustrate 15 processes and formats created during photography’s first century. The images we’ve chosen show places and people documented for a variety of reasons.
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