Florence Nightingale:
The Mysteries Behind Her Iconic Photographs
Joint research by Denis Pellerin and Rebecca Sharpe Florence Nightingale apparently loathed having her photograph taken. There are consequently relatively few photographic portraits of her and…
Chronic Nostalgic:
How I became a dealer in vernacular colour slides
I was a young girl on the Canadian prairies in the 1980s and early '90s, when public television was particularly rife with Anglophilia. My first cinematic influences were The Wizard of Oz, Carry On…
The Commissioned Oxford Stereos of Spiers and Son
Modern stereo of the acid free cardboard boxes housing the original wooden containers holding the negatives presented to the Weston Library by Walter Lewis Spiers. Housed in three wooden boxes…
Collecting as a Mirror of Changing Times:
Photography at the Städel Museum
Collection, preservation, research, exhibitions and education together make up the bedrock of a museum’s work. The accompanying operational structures and conception of exhibition objects, on the…
When a family album turns out to be a piece of photographic history
During the summer of 2019, while we were going through stereo cards and photographs at Bruno Tartarin’s professional premises, my assistant Rebecca drew my attention to a photo album she had just…
Collecting photographs before the modern photography market
Your editor has asked me to answer the question “Why did you begin to collect photographs?” In order to answer, I have to go back over fifty years, so you must forgive me if memory fails, but here…