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Official account of the Photographic Collectors Club of Great Britain (PCCGB), dedicated to the history of photography, the collecting and using of old cameras and other photographica. Website: https://pccgb.net
Throwback Thursday 📸
Penzance Promenade, c.1910
Gibson & Sons
A photograph of the promenade with three stylish ladies approaching the photographer. The sea railings were replaced with a new design in 1896, and the whole area was paved in the following year.
A new biography explores the remarkable life and collecting legacy of Lady Charlotte Schreiber, the 19th-century heiress and ceramics scholar.
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This should be excellent #photohist
05.10.2025 12:36 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Photography folks, a longread for your Sunday coffee. Enjoy!
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Image: On a dark blue background are white and light blue impressions of two pansies. At the bottom are the logos for the Arts and Humanities Research council, the Museum of the Home and the University of Westminster. Text at top left reads - Are you LGBTQIA+ or non-heterosexual? Do you have experience of darkrooms in the home or spaces that feel like home to you? If so, then this project is for you!
Home Darkrooms in Britian 📸🏠🏳️🌈 Oral History Project
I wish to speak to LGBTQIA people who have experience of having a home darkroom or used a darkroom that felt like home.
If you are interested in learning more, please get in touch:
📧 m.warren@westminster.ac.uk
📞 +447902489831
Edinburgh-area photo history nerds! I'm giving a talk 17/9/25 @ the Edinburgh Photographic Society. It's not technically a public event but if you are interested in attending, PM me & I'll send a link. More below. #tintypes #photohistory #wetcollodion #photography #altprocess #Victorian #Edinburgh
12.09.2025 13:49 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 1
Don't forget to book your free tickets to our Bill Douglas Memorial talk for Heritage Open Days by Geoff Brown - 'From Silent to Sound'! 👉
www.bdcmuseum.org.uk/.../lecture-...
See you there! 🎬🎥
#heritagesky #museumsky @museumsandheritage.com #heritageopendays #billdouglas #filmsky #silentfilmsky
It’s one year this week since the publication of the Routledge Companion to Global Photographies. The 36 essays from around the world are free, open access to all: www.routledge.com/The-Routledg...
03.09.2025 15:57 — 👍 7 🔁 2 💬 0 📌 0
Photographica World No.180 is out now - contents include a look at the Diana F+ and Dan 35 cameras, seaside animal photography, fingerprints, Chinese missionaries, manufacturer E.H. Farrow, Johan Steenbergen & the Photorex, the life and work of Ernest Marriage FRPS, and much more
#photohist
We have featured various Beck cameras in 'Photographica World' over the years but it's not possible to estimate the potential worth of any camera without more details about condition and other factors - an auction house would be better placed for financial evaluations
31.07.2025 18:08 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Peter was a speaker at the Club's AGM in Weston-super-Mare in 2013, talking about how he & Bill Douglas built up their unique collection of material on the history of the moving image. Many PCCGB members will recognise the truth of his comment: ‘collecting is the disease for which there is no cure’!
26.03.2025 10:28 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Third Annual Mosse Lecture. A Lecturer by Mirjam Brusius with Respondent Prf. Avinoam Shalem. Skulls, Sculptures, and the Kaiser’s Museums: Global Entanglements, Colonial Race Science, and German Memory Culture (c. 1900-today) Thursday, March 27th, 2025 from 6-8 PM With a reception to follow Hosted at Deutsches Haus, 420 W. 116th St Mosse Lectures Columbia | Germanic Languages Columbia | European Institute Columbia | MESAAS Institute for comparative literature and Society Columbia University The Society of Fellows and the Heyman Center for the Humanities Columbia University
It’s #MosseWednesday!
Join Mirjam Brusius on March 27th for her Mosse Lecture, “Skulls, Sculptures, and the Kaiser’s Museums: Global Entanglements, Colonial Race Science, and German Memory Culture (c. 1900-today)” at Columbia University’s Deutsches Haus.
Born #OTD 1837 #photographer Marie-Lydie Bonfils. Moved to Lebanon in 1867 and ran a studio with husband Felix.
#WomenInPhotography #WomensHistoryMonth
Interesting blog on BL website
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The growing interest in collecting among the younger generation has been clearly noticeable at Photographica these last few years
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Que no nos pare la falta de creatividad, por favor! 😂
Hoy sale mi primer libro, #Retratadas. Fotografía, género y modernidad en el siglo XIX español, publicado por Cátedra.
Estará disponible hoy en la Central del Museo Reina Sofía y a partir de mañana en vuestras librerías habituales!!
This looks a fun way to celebrate Anna Atkins' birthday
17.03.2025 08:04 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
New research on autochrome pioneer and 'Photographic News' editor Percy Salmon FRPS
#photohist
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Susan Sontag admitted in 1978 that “On Photography” (1977) is not about photography, while also defended it as not against photography. She claimed that it is about how capitalist industrial society uses photography and its implications.
16.03.2025 03:10 — 👍 8 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0Happy Birthday #AnnaAtkins!
16.03.2025 09:17 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
PW 179 is now at the printer and will be with subscribers soon - contents include Albert Kahn's autochromes, Captain John Baptist Lucius Noel on Mt Everest, in-depth looks at Riley Reflex & Salex Murer cameras, Johan Steenbergen, cameras in movies about war photography, and much more..
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Good news! If you missed this talk, you can now watch it over on YouTube: youtu.be/8bUzNsTlzRc?...
11.03.2025 16:46 — 👍 11 🔁 3 💬 0 📌 0
Photograph of a reconstructed Victorian photographic studio, inside a museum
Interior of a museum reconstruction of a Victorian photographic studio with two mannequins and shelves of photos
A large wooden studio camera on a tripod
Ever fancied owning your own Victorian photographer's studio? Following the closure of Cornwall's Flambards theme park, the photographer's shop from the Victorian village is up for auction, with the shop front, mannequins, cameras & accessories #photohist
10.03.2025 10:11 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
The 2024 Madrid edition of More Pictures About Dark Cities and Vacant Buildings is out now
You can order a copy here:
Focus #1 2025!
Don't miss this 116-page issue!
American Photography, Staciii Samidin, icon: Saul Leiter. Test: Canon EOS R5 Mark II, Sigma 30mm and 56mm. focusmagazine.nl
Cover: Anaïs Lopez
#photography #focusmagazine #staciisamidin #saulleiter #foam #rijksmuseum #sigmaphotobenelux
Ever thought about studying history of photography? On Saturday April 5, I'll be in St Andrews to meet with anyone thinking of applying for MLitt History of Photography and MLitt @arthistorysta.bsky.social programs For a graduate's views bit.ly/41JaQ3F And to sign up bit.ly/3QM49Yf See you there!
05.03.2025 17:15 — 👍 9 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
We are setting up for a fascinating talk on the history of photography in Devon in the Folklore Library and Archive. And we have lots of toys to look at too
07.02.2025 18:28 — 👍 30 🔁 4 💬 0 📌 0
My latest article is out! It argues that the public subvention of photography in Parisian hospitals enabled the institutionalisation of photography and shaped the kind of photography that could be done #photohist #histmed 📷📸🗂️ It took me literal years to write!! www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
06.02.2025 16:05 — 👍 58 🔁 17 💬 3 📌 1
1920s black Kodak camera with folding bellows
Black and white photograph of two young men in academic gowns standing on an old stone arch
Interesting find inside a No1 Pocket Kodak - a reel of undeveloped film taken in Chipping Sodbury in the 1950s.
#photography #photohist #camera #collecting
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My new book! Photography and Making Bedouin Histories in the Naqab, 1906-2013: An Anthropological Approach |Routledge|
#bedouin #naqab #photohist #visualanthro #anthropology #middleeasthistory
