Henry Dixon

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Canonbury Tower 25 by Henry Dixon 1880
Ashburnham House exterior London by Henry Dixon 1880

Henry Dixon (born April 14, 1820 in St Pancras , London, † January 20, 1893 ibid) was a photographer who worked in London from 1860.

life and work

Henry Dixon was born in St. Pancras, London in 1820, was an engraver and had two sons and seven daughters. A commercial photographer from the very beginning, he became a member of the Royal Photographic Society of London in 1875 . Since 1885 he led the business name Henry Dixon & Son, because he worked together with his son Thomas James Dixon (1857-1943).

Since 1866 he photographed for the City of London Corporation . His work includes a series on the London sewer system , which is kept in the form of coated glass plates in the Guildhall Library .

His photographs of animals in the London Zoo , some of which are owned by the Zoological Society of London , were made between 1879 and 1885.

A well-known series of street photographs of London was made between 1875 and 1886 for the Society for Photographing Relics of Old London (SPROL), for which the brothers Alfred & John Bool also worked. The photographic images produced in technical and craftsmanship in the difficult process of the pigment printing process are still very well preserved today.

In 1977 some of them were presented 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

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Henry Dixon Biography.Retrieved May 19, 2013
  2. ↑ Chris Beetles ( memento of October 12, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) accessed on February 10, 2016
  3. ↑ collage: City of London ( Memento of the original from March 5, 2016 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 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / collage.cityoflondon.gov.uk
personal data
SURNAME Dixon, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British photographer
DATE OF BIRTH April 14, 1820
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH January 20, 1893
Place of death London