For anyone wanting to trace a studio photographer ancestor or search for surviving examples of their work.
Photography was one of the wonders of the Victorian age. Its practitioners held a mirror for the age to see itself. Robert Pols includes the many people who were photographers: artists, scientists, entrepreneurs, shopkeepers, conmen and visionaries. He writes with clarity and passion, leaving no avenue left unexplored.
Author: Robert Pols
Published: 2011