Victorian Studio Photographs

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An exciting development in the heart of the city centre, offered by Brand Vaughan, is this selection of contemporary, newly refurbished studio apartments to suit a range of budgets. You can see Seven Dials from your front door, so you know a fresh coffee or bake is never far away, and with Brighton Station just over the cusp of the hill, you will never be late for the train. I used to enjoy my visits to the Downey père et fils. "Young" Downey was very fond of children, and my sisters Doris and Grace and I had plenty of fun playing about in the great studio, or dressing ourselves up in the wonderful assortment of garments that he kept there. Contributions should be appropriate for a global audience. Please avoid using profanity or attempts to approximate profanity with creative spelling, in any language. Comments and media that include 'hate speech', discriminatory remarks, threats, sexually explicit remarks, violence, and the promotion of illegal activity are not permitted. However, rather than being merely the subject of studio portraits, perhaps one of your ancestors was a portrait photographer. Here are some ideas about where you can look to find out more about your relatives who worked as professional photographers.

Mailing list discussion and sharing of information regarding the dating of photographs produced by portrait and studio photographers in England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland between 1850 and 1950 Home - Week ending 12 February 2005 - 386". Footlight Notes. 12 February 2005 . Retrieved 9 September 2022. Raymond V. Turley, Isle of Wight Photographers 1840-1940, (University of Southampton Libraries, 2001) David Brewster’s lenticular stereoscope was developed by a number of manufacturers hoping to benefit from the huge demand for the images. Hundreds of thousands of stereoscopic images were sold in a major craze which reached every middle-class Victorian drawing-room. Special cameras were developed to make the images, and a variety of viewers produced to keep up with demand. Portraits, scenery, comedic scenes and images of far flung places were all particularly popular.

Tsar Nicholas II, 1899

William Downey - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk. National Portrait Gallery . Retrieved 29 December 2022. The calotype negative was made by projecting an image through a lens on to a piece of chemically sensitized paper fixed inside the camera, where it formed a latent image on the paper, unseen by human eye. When developed, this produced a negative image. In turn, this negative was placed in the printing frame with a second piece of sensitized paper beneath it and exposed to sunlight. This produced a positive image, which had to be fixed with chemicals. Also in 1851, the scientist Sir David Brewster (1781-1868) presented lenticular stereoscopy to the world for the first time, at the Great Exhibition in the Crystal Palace, Hyde Park, London. 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.

The article was first published in Photographica World, the magazine of the Photographic Collectors Club of Great Britain. For more details about the Photographic Collectors Club of Great Britain, please visit https://pccgb.net/ or to see some previous Peep Series articles with additional images https://pccgb.net/a-peep-into-the-victorian-image-collection/ Our Royal photographs – How they were taken, Pall Mall Budget 26 July 1894 p 13, photo, interview with William DowneyWhen Ben Ridley of Ridley Buchanan Architects and his partner wanted to get a foot on the London property ladder, they decided that buying a place at auction would be the best route. That way, they could find a home with lots of potential, but within a price range that they could afford. Victorian Studio Nearby attractions include Myeongdong, Gangnam-gu, Incheon Airport, Hongdae, Seoul Station, Itaewon, Myeong-dong, Gimpo International Airport.