William Collie

Photograph

Lebensdaten

(Aberdeen 1810 – 1896 )

Werdegang

ab 1847 im Umkreis der Kunstphotographie-Bewegung in Jersey tätig

„... arbeitete als Maler auf Jersey. Ähnlich wie bei David Octavius Hill und Robert Adamson waren seine Fotografien als Malvorlagen gedacht, sind jedoch frühe Beispiele für den Einsatz der Kamera zur Dokumentation des dörflichen Ambiente“

Literatur

Calotypes, Art-Union 9 (June 1, 1847), p. 231

James Glaisher, Class X, in Reports by the Juries on the Subjects in the Thirty Classes into which the Exhibition Was Divided (London: Printed for the Royal Commissioners by William Clowes & Sons, 1852), p. 279

Early Calotypes, Photographic Journal 6 (February 15, 1860), pp. 166-67

Pam Roberts (Hg.), Das Antlitz der Erinnerung, Fotografische Schätze aus der Sammlung der Royal Photographic Society (RPS), Frederking & Thaler Verlag, München 2001, ISBN 3-89 405-422-2

Jonathon Carter, A Theft from the Heavens: The Beginnings of Photography in Jersey, 127th Annual Bulletin (Soci&6 Jersiaise, Saint Helier, Jersey) 28, pt. 2 (2002), pp. 226-33

Roger Taylor (Hg.), Impressed Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860, Ausstellungskatalog Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, National Gallery of Art, Washington sowie Yale University Press, New Haven and London, New York 2007, ISBN 978-1-58839-225-1

Quelle

"Calotypes," Art-Union 9 (June 1, 1847), p. 231; James Glaisher, "Class X," in Reports by the Juries on the Subjects in the Thirty Classes into which the Exhibition Was Divided (London: Printed for the Royal Commissioners by William Clowes & Sons, 1852), p. 279; "Early Calotypes," Photographic Journal 6 (February 15, 1860), pp. 166-67; Jonathon Carter, "A Theft from the Heavens': The Beginnings of Photography in Jersey," 127th Annual Bulletin (Soci&6 Jersiaise, Saint Helier, Jersey) 28, pt. 2 (2002), pp. 226-33