Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Félix Bonfils
Félix Bonfils was a French photographer and writer born in 1831. He was one of the first commercial photographers to produce images of the Middle East on a large scale and amongst the first to employ a new method of colour photography, developed in 1880. Félix worked as a bookbinder but in 1860 he joined […]
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Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Albert Lévy
Albert Levy was a French photographer active in Europe and the United States. He was born in France in 1847 and most active in the 1880s and 1890s. He was a pioneer of architectural photography. There are indications that Albert Levy was a photographer who also worked variously as bookseller, editor and manufacturer. He was also working in France in 1876 […]
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Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Farnham Maxwell-Lyte
Farnham Maxwell-Lyte was an English chemist and the pioneer of a number of techniques in photographic processing. He was born on 10 January 1828 in Brixham, Devon and first came across photography at the age of sixteen after hearing the news of William Henry Fox Talbot’s invention of the calotype. In 1846, he entered Christ’s College, Cambridge, where he graduated […]
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Symmetry in architecture
Architecture as any compositional art makes extensive use of symmetry. Across all cultures and in all time periods, architectural compositions are symmetrically arranged. There are so many kinds of symmetry, so many kinds of architecture and so many ways of viewing architecture. Architecture differs fundamentally from other form of arts because of its spatiality. It […]
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Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey
Joseph-Philibert Girault de Prangey was a French photographer and draughtsman who was active in the Middle East. His daguerreotypes are the earliest surviving photographs of Greece, Palestine, Egypt, Syria and Turkey. Remarkably, his photographs were only discovered in the 1920s in a storeroom of his estate and then only became known eighty years later. Girault […]
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Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Emma Schenson
Emma Schenson was a Swedish photographer and painter born in 1827. She was one of the earliest professional female photographers in Sweden. Schenson was the daughter of the academy treasurer John Schenson and the school administrator Maria Magdalena Hahr. There are no records of her education or of how she became familiar with photography. By […]
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The beauty in art and architecture
Art has been around for so long that it has become an integral part of our lives. Art is a universal expression of the soul. The ancient carvings in an Egyptian cave, the beautiful words of a poet and the abstract objects in a painting all define art as timeless, pure and perfect. Art is […]
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Monday’s Photography Inspiration – George Shadbolt
George Shadbolt was a British writer, editor, student of optics and photographer with a strong interest in innovative techniques, who was active during the 1850s-1860s. He was reported to have made the first microphotograph, he was also an early advocate of photographic enlargement, as well as compound and combination printing. Shadbolt’s dislike of the glare […]
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What’s your best camera?
Lately, I’ve found myself using the camera on my phone more and more to create images. I currently have an iPhone XS with great camera ability but it has never been a camera that I rely on to create images. With the extensive edits that I carry out on the images that I capture in […]
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Monday’s Photography Inspiration – Drahomir Josef Ruzicka
Drahomír Joseph Ruzicka was born in Bohemia in 1870. At age six he moved with his family to a farm near Wahoo, Nebraska. A state that drew many Czech immigrants. In 1882, the young Ruzicka went to New York to finish high school, then to Vienna for college, and graduated from New York University with […]
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