Preparing biographies The Glasgow Post Office Directory reveals that J. Ralston had a studio on Argyle Street from 1856 to 1857, but nothing else is known about him. He wrote to the Liverpool and Manchester Photographic Journal in 1857, suggesting helpfully that “in my experience of photography, I generally find the simplest methods of doing things to be the best. In salting paper for calotypes . . . for a long time back I have used nothing but pure sea water, by which method I never fail in getting good results.” Roger Taylor & Larry J. Schaaf Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2007) This biography is courtesy and copyright of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and is included here with permission. Date last updated: 4 Nov 2012.
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