The Amateur Photographer
The difficulties suffered by Edmund (Ned) as he dealt with the new technology of photography are graphically displayed in the cartoons. Ned had to cope with the long exposures needed and also with his impatient subjects.
However his successes were celebrated as illustrated in the triumphant Rawson brothers executing a jig outside the dark room when the glass plate negatives had been developed.
26 July 1877
What our artist had to put up with. The artists changing plates under a red blanket with extreme difficulty.
Voice in distance – Now then you photographic --- hurry up & don’t keep us all day in the rain!
27 July 1877
Both: “By Jove old man, it takes us! give us your hand once more”!
Last updated: 10th January 2008
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