Hi
A follow up to my message below. I’ve also discovered this useful open-source site on nineteenth century filmmakers:
Who’s Who of Victorian Cinema http://www.victorian-cinema.net/whoswho
The site is an updated spin-off of Who's Who of Victorian Cinema: A Worldwide Survey. Edited by Stephen Herbert and Luke McKernan. (London: British Film Institute, 1996), now out of print
All the best
Chris
Thank you everyone for responding to my plea for sources on nineteenth and early twentieth century photographers. I really have been overwhelmed with suggestions!
In addition to the numerous print sources that have been recommended, among the free-to-access web sites that I have found worth bookmarking are:
Luminous Lint. http://www.luminous-lint.com/app/home/P1/ International
PhotoSeed http://photoseed.com/collection/ International
Broadway Photographs http://broadway.cas.sc.edu/photographers US photographers
PhotoLondon http://www.photolondon.org.uk/default.asp UK photographers
EdinPhoto This link: http://www.edinphoto.org.uk/2/2__professional_photographers.htm UK photographers
Exhibitions of the Royal Photographic Society 1870-1915 http://erps.dmu.ac.uk/ Predominantly UK photographers, but does include some non-UK names
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Nothing to do with photography, but on another subject area altogether – Sculpture - one free-to-access site I’ve discovered that is very useful for tracing data on 19th and early 20th century British and Irish sculptors is:
Mapping the Practice and Profession of Sculpture in Britain and Ireland 1851-1951 http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/ click Browse http://sculpture.gla.ac.uk/browse/index.php
Best wishes
Chris
Chris Mees
Editor – designinform [soon to be renamed Arts:Search – but more on this in due course]
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