A Scene in a Library: Part One – the Literality

27 Oct 2017: Talbot’s death in 1877 drew out a vivid memory for an unidentified contributor to the Daily Telegraph: “some eight-and-thirty years ago there used to be visible in the corner of an optician’s shop window in Regent street, a pale and dingy vignette on which, probably, few passers-by ever cared to bestow a glance…the little picture …

Postponing the Silver in Frankfurt and Oxford

20 Oct 2017: Last month, our own Brian Liddy was honoured by The Royal Photographic Society in their Awards ceremony held at The Royal Society in London. He was presented with the Fenton Medal by the Society’s President Walter Benzie , HonFRPS. Dr Michael Pritchard FRPS, Chief Executive of The RPS, has pointed out that this medal was …

Photography & the 1851 Great Exhibition

13 Oct 2017: This marks the first contribution by our newest Advisory Board member, Dr Anthony Hamber. Anthony is a leading expert on photographically illustrated books and is currently working on a book and exhibition on today’s topic. One of the illustrations below is from the collection of the Art Gallery of Ontario, and I cannot let pass …

Lost & Found / Significant Birthdays

6 Oct 2017: A new section of the website with a new task for you ( please ) Just this week we added a section to the home page of the website. I imagine that the above is self explanatory. Right now this section is populated with only a couple of examples but we intend to keep adding …