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3.2K views • 10 years ago. A series of films exploring the collection of early photography held at Edinburgh Central Library. The films highlight the work of the Edinburgh Calotype Clu...
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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.
Artist Portrait & Landscape Photographer. We want to bring these facts to life by providing a huge, comprehensive, authoritative and unique source of information about earlier photographers in Great Britain and Ireland – all in one single place.
- 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 ...
In this video I have discussed Early 19th Century Photographers in 9 minutes starting from first photo ever taken in 1826 the world by Joseph Nicéphore Niépce's View from the Window at Le Gras...
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Dec 21, 2023 · In this video, David Thomas, archivist at Kresen Kernow, is talking about some early Cornish photographs. They are part of a collection from Janette Rosing (...
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