..the work of many early photographers. @kgbaston.bsky.social and I prepared the material for display and thoroughly enjoyed chatting to our lovely guests before they moved on to the www.npg.org.uk to see their fabulous Alfred Buckham exhibition.
A real treat this week, a one-off photographic exhibition at @signetlibrary.bsky.social by @lixmount.bsky.social for @rpshistgroup.bsky.social
This selection of our photographic collection featured our Hill & Adamson Album, negatives of Penicuik House, albums from the Roughead Collection plus..
Drain pipes cast thick rectangular shadows onto a brick wall
Drainpipe shadows this morning, Boat Green.
One of the better afternoons of my life was spent in reading the final draft of @kgbaston.bsky.social 's book "Charles Areskine's Library: Lawyers and Their Books at the Dawn of the Scottish Enlightenment". Kit writes about this fantastic book 10 years on: www.kgbaston.co.uk/2026/04/10/h...
A street corner with a tower house and young trees just out of blossom. A white van looks on from the left.
A sea horizon with a cruise ship at left, an island centre and an oil rig service vessel on the right
Two from Trinity, Leith's Victorian coastal suburb
No one took our "Edinburgh" bait!: it's New York, 1927, the Todhunter Building, designed to ape European late medieval structures, taken from a magnificent vol of pre-1929 American commercial buildings. Well done @ruinista.bsky.social for getting it absolutely spot on.
It feels like Prague to me - and pre 1906 when number plates became mandatory?
The buildings across the street feel very NYC to me, as does the street itself. I'd guess ... 1910s/early 20s?
It has bit of an Atget vibe. Paris in the 1910s?
Looks like the Canongate but I don’t recognise it!
@johockey.bsky.social and I were looking at this puzzle picture this morning. Would anyone care to guess the location and the date of the building?
'Lessay Abbey, Normandy, France' by Ursula Clark (1940-2000).
Two of the recently-discovered images by the Newcastle upon Tyne photographer.
The full story in my latest Pressphotoman blogpost. Link below.
The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #WinterSurvivors - birds that remain throughout your winter season. The alternative is #corvids - birds from the Corvidae family.
My choice today is my Little Egret friend. 🥰
#kentbirding #birdphotography #eastcoastkin
Fantastic, thank you!
It's actually real now!
Chrystal's shade will be delighted with that!
Thank you! That's extremely kind.
Fantastic piece here; the only things I'd add is to reflect on the gentle, affectionate nature of the satire; & that the accompanying texts (by James T. Callender?) are essential, and contain vast amounts of information and insight about individuals & society just not found anywhere else.
Spent part of @inpursuitusa.bsky.social launch @nyhistory.bsky.social with teachers looking at Rev-era documents, including this early 19th c. facsimile copy of the Declaration, set against the 1773 freedom petition by Peter Bestes, Sambo Freeman, Felix Holbrook,& Chester Joie from Massachusetts.
Gets so much harder after 1945 to track people down! 1860-1914 a kind of records golden age.
Just having a look through the Adam Malcolm Dumbiedykes work now - really interesting stuff here, thank you!
Something personal here, a repaying of a debt to an Edinburgh photographer of the pre-1939 era whose work helped me attempt my own projects and acclimatise to Edinburgh when I was first here. The (melancholy in places) story of Francis Maxwell Chrystal: lixmount.substack.com/p/francis-ma...
Curious to see what’s inside our new Anthotype book by @malinfabbri.bsky.social ? 🌿
It takes you step by step through the process – and a lot more!
Ready to learn? See:
👉 www.alternativephotography.com/anthotypes-c...
#anthotype #anthotypes #altprocess
Some recent nonsense.
Night-time photo of a main road in Birmingham. The road here is in a steep sided cutting. There is an indicator showing which lanes are available for traffic, and the lights of the cars become streaks from the long exposure. Lights from buildings in the upper distance.
Aston Expressway, Birmingham. My photo 1980.
For Henry Fox Talbot's birthday, my favourite of his prints - this magical glimpse through curtains out onto ships in the harbour at Rouen, 1843. To go with it, @roseteanby.bsky.social 's article on Talbot's Rouen for the Talbot Catalogue Raisonné blog - talbot.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/2018/03/09/t...
Some current work stuff
Three books: Francis Bedford "Cairo to Constantinople", Mike Weaver "The Photographic Art" and Vera Punter's "Whitsunday's Child: A Country Life in Pictures".
Also called in on McNaughton's Bookshop on Elm Row, who are currently offering 40% off any purchase of three books. So: Francis Bedford's glass plates of the Middle East; Mike Weaver on photographical portrait tradition, and a charming album of one woman's life in an English farming community.
