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A VICTORIAN photographic studio has announced its closure after 37 years in business. The Victorian Image, in Sandgate, Whitby, will open its doors for the last time this weekend, owner Paul ...
They also recall Victorian studio portraits and are intentionally left open to interpretation. Although they have a very specific mood and atmosphere, it’s difficult to gauge whether they were ...
Talk by Dr Antonia Laurence Allen, Curator, National Trust for Scotland Who was selling and buying photographs in Victorian Aberdeen and why? Antonia explores the growth of photographic studios in ...
Photographer Grace Lau has long been fascinated with the portraits taken by Westerners in China during the mid-19th to early 20th centuries that portray Chinese people in a Victorian studio setting.
Beneath a Victorian in Arlington, a recording studio lies hushed October 6, 2016 ...
Ready for your Victorian close-up? Photographer turns his back on digital pictures and Instagram to create stunning portraits which each take 20 minutes to develop with 150-year-old technology ...
POWERFUL portraits capture what patients looked like in Britain’s most notorious mental asylum. Victorian photographer Henry Hering is the man behind the eye-opening snaps, which put a face to ...
The Victorians invented and eulogised childhood, so we see a procession of children, including the inspirational Alice of Alice in Wonderland and her siblings, bathed in a kind of wondering innocence ...
Bendigo East Bowls Club member Ken Gloster, 93, believes the portrait of Queen Elizabeth II, which has adorned the walls of his club for decades, should be taken down.
A Victorian underground toilet block in central London is to be transformed into an exhibition space for the National Portrait Gallery. The 160s sq m (1,700 sq ft) structure was closed in the 1970s.