The collection of photographs from Spain, Portugal and Gibraltar of Francis Frith & Co.

Autor: Fernández-Rivero, Juan-Antonio, García-Ballesteros, María-Teresa
Jazyk: angličtina
Rok vydání: 2023
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Zdroj: Fernández-Rivero, Juan-Antonio and García-Ballesteros, María-Teresa The collection of photographs from Spain, Portugal and Gibraltar of Francis Frith & Co. The PhotoHistorian, 2023, n. 197, pp. 5-16. [Journal article (Paginated)]
Druh dokumentu: Journal article (Paginated)
Popis: The Iberian collection of Frith & Co. is one of the most interesting in the 19th century peninsular photographic scene. And this is so due to its earliness in the 1860s, due to its numerical and geographical extension, and also due to its technical and artistic quality. In 2007, this collection was the subject of an extensive study and an excellent exhibition in Barcelona, at the Museo Nacional d'Art de Catalunya in collaboration with the Photographic Museum of the University of Navarra.i In this study, only Napper was mentioned as the author of the photographs. However, over the last fifteen years we have had the opportunity to access new data and documents and also a greater number of vintage photographs, the study of which yields interesting conclusions to clarify, if not entirely, then at least in part, some of the unknowns in the collection which needed to be resolved. In 2016 I published a paper that, in addition to offering new biographical data about Robert Peters Napper, dealt mainly with the stereoscopic work in Spain by Frank Mason Good.ii There I expressed my suspicion that Good was also one of the authors of the Frith collection. Here we will present new and interesting contributions to this issue.
Databáze: E-LIS (Eprints in Library & Information Science)