Forum: Photography


Subject: The history of photography in Edinburgh 1800's- present day

LostPatrol opened this issue on Dec 20, 2004 ยท 7 posts


LostPatrol posted Tue, 21 December 2004 at 2:33 PM

Glad you both liked the site. Michelle, I was sure that you wouldnt be able to resist this trip into the past. His knowledge of photographic history is outstanding as is some of his own work, such a fascinating person. Also at the talk he showed 3D works using dual photographs mounted on a wooden frame with binocular type lenses on it, you had to slide the photograph up and down until you got a 3D image. I had a toy like that when I was a kid, but this contraption was from the late 1800s , hey and we think we are clever, but they had almost no technology and cameras you could live in they were so big! Even mobile horse dawn darkrooms. (An 1800s laptop? LOL) He done a series of Edinburgh shop/store fronts, each of which has a car in front of them in the same colour scheme, curious I asked how he managed it and if they were PW and he told me that he just waited in front of the shop until the right colour car parked there. Now that is dedication especially in our weather. Have fun LP PS There are over 1000 pages, could take some time.

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