Burton Brothers was one of New Zealand’s most important nineteenth-century. Alfred Henry Burton (1834–1914) and Walter John Burton (1836–1880) were born in Leicester, England. Their father, John Burton, was a prominent photographer in the region. His firm, John Burton and Sons, was patronised by Queen Victoria and other members of the Royal Family. In 1866…
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Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Samuel Bourne
Samuel Bourne was a British photographer known for his prolific seven years’ work in India. His name is synonymous with British and Indian photography and he is the most researched and acclaimed colonial photographer. Bourne was born on 30 October 1834, at Napley Heath, near Mucklestone, on the Staffordshire and Shropshire border. After being educated by a clergyman near Fairburn,…
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Adolphe Braun
Adolphe Braun was a French photographer, best known for his floral still lifes, Parisian street scenes, and grand Alpine landscapes. Adolphe Braun was born in Besançon in 1812. His family relocated to Mulhouse, a textile manufacturing center in the Alsace region along the Franco-German border at the age of 10. He showed promise as a…
Monday Photography Inspiration – Philip Jones Griffiths
Philip Jones Griffiths was a Welsh photojournalist best known for his coverage of the Vietnam War. Born in 1936 in Rhuddlan, Wales, Philip Jones Griffiths studied pharmacology in Liverpool, and worked in London as the night manager at the Piccadilly branch of Boots, while also photographing part-time for the Manchester Guardian. His first photograph was of a friend, taken with the family Brownie in a rowing…
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Leopold Ahrendts
Leopold Ahrendts was a was a German draftsman, painter, lithographer and photographer born in Dessau Berlin in 1825. He first worked as a painter and lithographer. There is evidence of his participation in the Berlin academy exhibition in the years 1850–52 with lithographs. From 1852 he is listed in the Berlin address book, initially as a lithographer…
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – James Craig Annan
James Craig Annan was a pioneering Scottish-born photographer and Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society. He was born on 8 March 1864 and educated at Hamilton Academy before studying chemistry and natural philosophy at Anderson’s College, Glasgow. He joined his father Thomas Annan, (known for his early documentation of Glasgow Slums) business at a…
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Eadweard Muybridge
Eadweard Muybridge was an English photographer important for his pioneering work in photographic studies of motion, and early work in motion-picture projection. Muybridge was born in Kingston upon Thames, England, at the age of 20 he emigrated to the United States as a bookseller, first to New York City, and eventually to San Francisco in 1855, a few…
Monday Photography Inspiration- Kenro Izu
Kenro Izu is Japanese photographer born in Osaka, Japan in 1949. During his studies at Nippon University, college of art, Izu visited New York in 1970 to study photography, and subsequently decided to stay and work. In 1975, after working as an assistant to other photographers, Izu established Kenro Izu Studio in New York City,…
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Šechtl and Voseček
The photographic studio Šechtl and Voseček was founded in Tábor (Bohemia) in 1888 by Ignác Šechtl, who accepted his assistant Jan Voseček as co-member of his photographic studio. The history of Šechtl & Voseček Studios goes back to 1863, when Ignác Schächtl (1840 – 1911) made the decision to leave his work as a clerk…
Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Pierre Rossier
Pierre Joseph Rossier (1829 – 1898) was a pioneering Swiss photographer whose albumen photographs, which include stereographs and cartes-de-visite, comprise portraits, cityscapes, and landscapes. Until very recently, little was known about Rossier; even his given name was a mystery. Documents discovered in the Fribourg town archives finally proved that his given name was Pierre, and it can…
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