Discovery of an unknown daguerreotype
from old Le Havre:
“The quai de la Citadelle circa 1845-1848”
In May 2019, an intriguing full-plate daguerreotype titled Port de la côte normande ou bretonne, ca. 1845 was sold at the Hôtel Drouot. If the expert in charge of describing this mysterious…
Images of Persia
Du Khorassan au pays des Backhtiaris, trois mois de voyage en Perse
It's a fascinating collection. An exceptional archive, regrouping a set of 403 original photographs, printed on albumen paper from glass negatives, or in some cases on gelatin silver paper, and…
Women in the Dark:
Female Photographers in the US, 1850-1900, by Katherine Manthorne
On April 22, 1890, citizens of the central Kansas town of McPherson were greeted with a directive in the local paper: “Expression is the key to character. Think of this then have Mrs. Vreeland…
JAKARTA (BATAVIA) in Nineteenth Century Photographs
The City of Jakarta It was on 1 October 1989, that I arrived in Jakarta (known as Batavia from 1619–1942) to start work as a young equity analyst for a British broking house in Indonesia’s newly…
Early Photography in Vietnam
Until I made my first visit to Vietnam in 2013, I knew very little about the origins of photography in that country. My focus had been on East-Asian photography - China, Japan and Korea, to be…
Early Photography in Ladakh, Baltistan & Lahoul 1860-1930
A brief overview of the earliest photographers to have worked in the region This article is based on a paper that was originally read at the 17th Conference of the International Association for…