| Dates: | 1829 - 1925 | | Active: | UK |
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Parkes’s mother was an American-born descendant of Joseph Priestley, the controversial Quaker scientist involved in the prehistory of photography. Her father was a radical lawyer in Birmingham, and the family had many connections in scientific and artistic circles. In 1847 she taught herself the photogenic drawing process and used it to photograph New Zealand ferns she had received from her uncle, the illustrator Edwin Swainson. For a period in 1847, photography was her consuming passion. In 1858 she purchased the Englishwoman’s Journal, a feminist publication that promoted the stories of professional women. In 1867 she married Louis Belloc and moved to France. Parkes’s photograms made as a teenager are her only known photographs.
Roger Taylor & Larry J. Schaaf Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2007)
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Date last updated: 4 Nov 2012.
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