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Lost Female Photography

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
These are intriguing. Not surprising such a lot of names were lost!

It could be that women were far more responsible for early advances in photography. Do you have any instances?

Asher
 

Asher Kelman

OPF Owner/Editor-in-Chief
Here is a list and an article.

You and Maggie Terlecki are some of the best researchers I know!

There was a movie, The Governess starring Minnie Driver. It told of of a UK photographer who's assistant, a female nannie, (with whom he had an affair), accidentally learned to fix the fragile and quick to fade photographic image with salt water, thus, making more permanent prints possible. I wonder if that "discovery" was based on fact?

Asher
 

Jerome Marot

Well-known member
You and Maggie Terlecki are some of the best researchers I know!

There was a movie, The Governess starring Minnie Driver. It told of of a UK photographer who's assistant, a female nannie, (with whom he had an affair), accidentally learned to fix the fragile and quick to fade photographic image with salt water, thus, making more permanent prints possible. I wonder if that "discovery" was based on fact?


That UK photographer would be Henry Fox Talbot, which process was indeed fixed with table salt. He indeed had a governess at the time the invention was done, Amélina Petit de Billier, which was a refugee from France. You will find her portrait here, but it is not said whether she assisted the invention or not.
 

Martin Evans

New member
Julia Margaret Cameron is, of course, far from being a 'lost' female photographer. However, a packet of her prints came to light relatively recently. The V&A Museum in London's Kensington will shortly be exhibiting 100 of her photographs:

http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/j/julia-margaret-cameron/

The website states that the exhibition will run from 28th November until 21st February next year.

There is also a good article about Cameron's photography in the FT Weekend Magazine for October 24/25 2015, pp 26-30. It is written by Marta Weiss, curator of photographs at the V&A Museum. The article, dated 23 October, is online at:

http://www.ft.com/cms/s/0/d869fb4c-7834-11e5-a95a-27d368e1ddf7.html

However, the Financial Times does limit access to its online edition, so one may have to jump through hoops in order to read it online!

Martin
 
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