Photographer Collection (#23)

Amateur photography in the East End of London, 1895
Illustration showing a crowd of East Londoners gathering around an amateur photographer, 1895. At that time, the presence of an affluent photographer keen to take photographs of East End life

Charing Cross, London, c. 1880
Photograph showing Charing Cross, London, c.1880. The photographer used an exposure of sufficient length to blur some of the moving vehicles and pedestrians, but retain the stationary ones perfectly

Aircraft Production Line at Coventry; Second World War, 1939
Photograph showing a shed full of Whitley bomber wings at the Armstrong Whitworth works in Coventry, Britain, 1939. The wings, 84 foot in length from tip to tip, were being built up stage by stage

Germans taken by the French
Germans photographed in their trench by a French soldier from a distance of 15 metres. The Germans were asked if they would like to have their photograph taken

Mr Burke, war photographer
Preparing a composition for a portrait of the Ameer Yakoob Khan at Gandmak

Portrait of Sir Benjamin Stone and his wife Lady Stone
Sir Benjamin and Lady Stone. Benjamin Stone was a Conservative MP for East Birmingham between 1895-1909. He was known for his keen interest in photography

Photographer holding a Sky-scraper camera on the roof of a
Exaggerated view through a Sky-scraper camera. An invention by the famous New York photographers, the Byron Company, the camera was designed to capture tall buildings at close range

Benjamin Stone & his wife
Photographs accompanying the obituaries of of Sir Benjamin Stone (1838-1914) and Lady Stone who died on July 2nd and 6th respectively. Stone was a businessman and Conservative M.P

The art of war photography, fixing the negative at camp at t
Processing a photograph taken by Mr Burke, war photographer, during the Afghan War

M. Mieczkowskiego, photographer to the Imperial court, with
In the camp of the besiegers. M. Mieczkowskiego, photographer to the Imperial Court at work photographing the Russian army manoeuvres before the Czar, at Brest Litewsk, Poland

Scene in a photographers studio, example of portrait making
Portraiture in the early twentieth century. A photographer entertaining his subject while his assistants capture her photograph

A ships photographer coping with the storms
Photography in treacherous conditions; a ships photographer recording conditions on board

Bubbles Photo
The Photographer imitates the Artist : the actress Gabrielle Ray poses as the model for Millais painting Bubbles

Montmartre Girls 1908
Two French girls in Montmartre lean against a statue for a rest from their skipping game; an inquisitive man in a bowler hat looks at the photographer

Cherry Kearton
Explorer and travel photographer Cherry Kearton displays a legging which has been bitten through by a lion

Social / Rustic English
Typical English farming folk: a young man and an old man look at the photographer from the other side of a gate

Holiday Snap
As this holidaymaking family stroll along the promenade at Gorleston-on-Sea in Norfolk, they are snapped by a hopeful photographer

Police Photography
Police photographers at work at New Scotland Yard photographing evidence. Metropolitan Police

Distorting Mirror
Photographer takes picture of men and women reflected in a distorting mirror

Alvin Langdon Coburn
ALVIN LANGDON COBURN American photographer

Photographer Arrested
The Bolsheviks are still seen as a danger to the state : at Petrograd a photographer sympathetic to the Bolsheviks is arrested

Richard Boursnell
RICHARD BOURSNELL American spirit photographer

Vearncombe Spirit Photo
Image from a glass lantern slide used by Harry Price for illustrating talks featuring British spirit photographer M J Vearncombe

Babylon Tourist 1971
Babylon: a tourist admiring some excavated walls behind the Ishtar Gateway

Nadar / Gill / Les Hommes
NADAR, proper name Gaspard-Felix Tournachon French writer, caricaturist, photographer and balloonist

Climbing : Breithorn
A roped party, ascending the Breithorn on a fine sunny day, pause for a moment while the photographer records the scene for posterity

Houdini and Martin
Houdini, with spirit photographer Alexander Martin

Itinerant photographer in country
An itinerant photographer snaps a country mother and child

Triple Image Photo
Photograph by an unknown photographer, showing a sitter, perhaps with her parents on the Other Side

Duel as Spectacle
The duel as media spectacle - recorded by the photographer and the artist, and spectators come hurrying up

Lady Photographer
A well-dressed lady with her tripod-mounted camera

Group Photo of Bathers
A group of paddlers pose formally for the photographer - some cheerfully, some doubtfully, some apprehensively, others merely po-faced

Glasgow Clothes Shop
A modest haberdashery, run by a nice-looking young couple in a Glasgow side street; the photographer evidently toured the city offering his services to residents and tradesmen

Salvation Army Couple
A Salvation Army couple photographed in their uniforms. The photographer works in Barnstaple, so perhaps thats where they are from

Outdoor Photographer
A young couple with a baby in a pram approach an outdoor photographer and his stand of photographic examples

Costumes for the Seaside
Yellow two-piece dress with jacket & turban; striped skirt & blouse with red double- breasted jacket; black & red bathing costume & cap & beach robe with large floral design

Birdseye View of Plage
A seagull s-eye view of a French plage : there is much activity, including a beach photographer taking a picture of a group of holidaymakers

Smiling and Scowling
Two adults and an older child smile at the photographer, three younger children scowl at the camera

Varsity Overcoat 1907
American Varsity style overcoat viewed from the rear: 3/4 length with ample skirts & pocket flaps. This bowler hatted gent wears his to photograph Egyptians & camels

Chelsea Pensioners Sing
Chelsea Pensioners, veterans of the Chelsea Hospital, were early rehearsing their Christmas carols when our photographer called upon them this morning

Muybridge / Animals / Motion
EADWEARD MUYUBRIDGE English photographer circa 1885

Street Market Dakar
An extremely uninformative photo of a street market at Dakar - almost everyone is turning their back on the photographer and its hard to see what is being sold

After the Commune
After the recapture of Paris by the government, firemen extinguish the fires while a photographer seeks to record the scene for posterity. The residents can only grieve

PRAY DO NOT LAUGH
A male photographer is loosing his patience with three ladies whom he is trying to photograph

Spirit Photo Boursnell
Photo, almost certainly by English spirit photographer Richard Boursnell, showing Mrs Stanesby with the spirit of her mother

Spirit Photo - Sisters
An unidentified girl and her spirit sister, taken by an unidentified photographer

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