Alfred & John Bool
Alfred & John Bool were a British couple who photographed 19th century London .
life and work
Alfred Henry Bool (* 1844 in London ; † 9 December 1926 in Wimbledon ) and John James Bool (* 1850 in London; † 14 December 1933 ) opened photography studios in the London borough of Pimlico in the 1860s . John Bool worked in his photo studio until 1918.
The brothers were hired in 1875 by Alfred Marks , director of the Society for Photographing Relics of Old London , to build the Oxford Arms Inn , Lincoln's Inn , Smithfield Area , Temple Bar , Grey's Inn Lane , St. Bartholomew's and Photograph Cloth Fair .
The album prints , which were the photographic standard of the time, were made by the brothers in Henry Dixon's company .
Album prints can fade after a short time. That was cause for concern. Since the photographs were commissioned in order to preserve buildings, some of which were built before the Great Fire of London in 1666 and which were to give way to urban redevelopment measures at the end of the 19th century , in the memory of architects and people with an antiquarian sense, it was important to choose a technique that would last for generations. In 1870 the pigment printing process was invented, which was a long-term solution. Dixon mastered the process masterfully, the photographic images are still of excellent technical quality today.
From 1879 Dixon took over the commission of the Society for Photographing Relics of Old London completely and produced the other series using the new technology.
Not only the photographic images were preserved. Some of the buildings that were then threatened with demolition are now listed and have been restored.
In 1977 works by Alfred & John Bool and Henry Dixon were shown at documenta 6 in Kassel.
literature
- Old London: photographed by Henry Dixon and Alfred & John Bool for the Society for Photographing Relics of Old London, 1975 ISBN 0856701505
Web links
- Eddie Wrenn: Mail Online
Individual evidence
- ^ Museum of London: Fotografers London ( memento of July 24, 2013 in the Internet Archive ), accessed on February 10, 2016
- ↑ David Webb: Bool, Alfred and John ( Memento of the original from June 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 19, 2013
- ↑ Phaidon.Retrieved May 19, 2013
- ^ The Oxford Arms Inn. Retrieved May 19, 2013
- ^ Royal Academie. Retrieved May 19, 2013
- ↑ Dating AU ( Memento of the original from June 26, 2015 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 19, 2013
- ^ Bishopsgate Institute.Retrieved May 19, 2013
- ^ Mike Seaborne: Urban Landscape Photography in London - the Early Years.Retrieved May 19, 2013
- ↑ by the gentle author, 2010: In Search of Relics of Old London. Retrieved May 19, 2013
