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Daniel Blagrove
(1821-1899) |
A Photographic View of High Street,
Lewes, by Daniel Blagrove (c1874) |
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Edward Reeves
(c1823-1905) |
| An illustrated talk by
David Simkin on the photographers who were active in the town of Lewes
and the surrounding villages of Cooksbridge, Halland, Newick and
Ringmer between 1851 and 1910. The talk will cover the history of
professional photography in Lewes from the time when daguerreotype
portraits were taken on Brack Mount in June 1851 up until 1910, when
the firm of A. M. Bliss & Co. of Lansdowne Place, Lewes, was selling
"real photograph" picture postcards of Lewes, Alfriston, Barcombe,
Plumpton and Upper Dicker. David Simkin will concentrate on the lives
and careers of established professional photographers such as Daniel
Blagrove and Edward Reeves, but he will also look at the work of
amateur and part-time photographers such as Edward Bedford
(1865-1953),
Henry John Bartlett (1875-1965)
and William Baker Funnell of Newick
(1848-1938).
David Simkin is an amateur photo-historian
who runs the website Sussex PhotoHistory. He will illustrate his talk
with primary sources and examples taken from his large collection of
photographs taken in Lewes and surrounding villages in East Sussex
during the Victorian and Edwardian period. |
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