James Hamilton
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Photography and Photographic History.
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Photographs: http://www.lixmount.com
Two of a group of albumen prints I've acquired with Bunyan/Elstow associations. Internal dating indicates 1874 to 1881. No photographer, but the likelihood is that these are the work of George Downes d. 1879. (1)
November 1, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Two of a group of albumen prints I've acquired with Bunyan/Elstow associations. Internal dating indicates 1874 to 1881. No photographer, but the likelihood is that these are the work of George Downes d. 1879. (1)
Caroline Street, Saltaire, on a dark wet day in 2023
August 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Caroline Street, Saltaire, on a dark wet day in 2023
The Dunbar Street Fire Tower in clean modern brick, and, on the other side of the street, three shots of the paraphanalia and graffiti pertaining to the rear entrancrs to shops. Fountainbridge, Edinburgh.
August 21, 2025 at 6:59 AM
The Dunbar Street Fire Tower in clean modern brick, and, on the other side of the street, three shots of the paraphanalia and graffiti pertaining to the rear entrancrs to shops. Fountainbridge, Edinburgh.
Shots from a visit to the alabaster tombs at Harewood House (and a couple of the house itself) www.lixmount.com/England/Hare...
August 19, 2025 at 4:13 PM
Shots from a visit to the alabaster tombs at Harewood House (and a couple of the house itself) www.lixmount.com/England/Hare...
Some shots from Bradford and Harrogate during last week's heatwave: www.lixmount.com/England/Brad...
August 19, 2025 at 4:09 PM
Some shots from Bradford and Harrogate during last week's heatwave: www.lixmount.com/England/Brad...
Kirkstall Abbey. James Walker Oxley 1855; my shot 2025. More shots from Friday's visit to the Abbey at www.lixmount.com/England/Kirk...
August 19, 2025 at 4:03 PM
Kirkstall Abbey. James Walker Oxley 1855; my shot 2025. More shots from Friday's visit to the Abbey at www.lixmount.com/England/Kirk...
Four from Sunday: a walk from Newhaven/Trinity to the site of Leith Fort.
July 25, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Four from Sunday: a walk from Newhaven/Trinity to the site of Leith Fort.
Looking good 49 years on!
July 14, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Looking good 49 years on!
Missed the "Eyewitness" exhibition of Hungarian photography in 2011 & finally have the stunning catalogue:
July 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Missed the "Eyewitness" exhibition of Hungarian photography in 2011 & finally have the stunning catalogue:
This is from 1927, and absolutely bears out your 1920 correspondent. (The kind of nocturnal motor tours of Paris advertised here - in 1927 after all - sound wonderful)
June 26, 2025 at 7:46 AM
This is from 1927, and absolutely bears out your 1920 correspondent. (The kind of nocturnal motor tours of Paris advertised here - in 1927 after all - sound wonderful)
Friday book post - the papers and catalogue accompanying the Robert Adamson exhibition at Museum Ludwig / Agfa-Photo-Historama in Cologne, 2000. Wonderful Steidl reproductions, some images new to me. The papers are essential for the understanding of early Adamson scholarship in Germany c.1900-1965.
June 20, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Friday book post - the papers and catalogue accompanying the Robert Adamson exhibition at Museum Ludwig / Agfa-Photo-Historama in Cologne, 2000. Wonderful Steidl reproductions, some images new to me. The papers are essential for the understanding of early Adamson scholarship in Germany c.1900-1965.
Directly underneath, almost exactly 50 years later-
June 16, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Directly underneath, almost exactly 50 years later-
IIRC, this particular Lowry had the Hornby O Gauge clockwork LNER tank as its "prototype" -
June 12, 2025 at 1:49 PM
IIRC, this particular Lowry had the Hornby O Gauge clockwork LNER tank as its "prototype" -
New acquisition and a long-felt gap filled - Banister Fletcher's Comparative Architecture, with photographs and diagrams of practically every important world building and style in often appalling detail. Edinburgh's Signet Library here, along with two of the many, many beautiful drawings -
June 8, 2025 at 9:26 AM
New acquisition and a long-felt gap filled - Banister Fletcher's Comparative Architecture, with photographs and diagrams of practically every important world building and style in often appalling detail. Edinburgh's Signet Library here, along with two of the many, many beautiful drawings -
Henry Taunt's photographic River barge from his "New Map of the Thames" c.1872
May 31, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Henry Taunt's photographic River barge from his "New Map of the Thames" c.1872
25 years separate these sets of passport images and they have an "on arrest, after release" quality to them I think.
May 30, 2025 at 7:39 AM
25 years separate these sets of passport images and they have an "on arrest, after release" quality to them I think.
I've been to three of these. But come on, Sheppey's FAR:
May 24, 2025 at 7:10 PM
I've been to three of these. But come on, Sheppey's FAR:
New acquisition: 1928 Bunyan Tercentenary "Guide for Pilgrims" to Bedford and Elstow including this view of my ancestral home of Bunyan's Cottage and advertising for Bunyan-related photographic products and souvenirs.
May 22, 2025 at 8:32 AM
New acquisition: 1928 Bunyan Tercentenary "Guide for Pilgrims" to Bedford and Elstow including this view of my ancestral home of Bunyan's Cottage and advertising for Bunyan-related photographic products and souvenirs.
I've finally found a copy of The English Auden at a good price after all these years. Everything he wrote before America, and I'm with Larkin on this : it's all the Auden you need.
May 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
I've finally found a copy of The English Auden at a good price after all these years. Everything he wrote before America, and I'm with Larkin on this : it's all the Auden you need.