| Names: | Born: John Jabez Edwin Mayall
Born: John Jabez Edwin Meal
Other: J.J.E. Mayall
Other: Jabez Meal
Other: John Edwin Mayall
Other: John Jabez Mayall
Pen: Professor Highschool
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| | Dates: | 1813, 17 September - 1901, 6 March | | Born: | Great Britain, Manchester | | Active: | US / UK |
British photographer and daguerreotypist. Particularly noted for 1851 photographs of the Crystal Palace Exhibition in London.
Stereographs project
Business locations
Philadelphia, PA, US
Brighton, East Sussex, England, UK
London, England, UK
[4-5] [John Jabez Edwin Mayall] Early worker in
dags, ambros; View recorded by Darrah, no
details given. Also made SI formats. B. 10; D. 01.
*[John Edwin Mayall] 224 Regent St. 53-89. Views rare, in dag. & paper formats; also made CDVs.
T.K. Treadwell & William C. Darrah (Compiled by), Wolfgang, Sell (Updated by), 11/28/2003, Photographers of the United States of America, (National Stereoscopic Association)
T.K. Treadwell & William C. Darrah (Compiled by), Wolfgang, Sell (Updated by), 11/28/2003, Photographers of the World (Non-USA), (National Stereoscopic Association) |
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| Getty Research, Los Angeles, USA has an ULAN (Union List of Artists Names Online) entry for this photographer. This is useful for checking names and they frequently provide a brief biography. | | Go to website | Grove Art Online (www.groveart.com) has a biography of this artist.
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The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers. |
• Beaton, Cecil & Buckland, Gail 1975 The Magic Eye: The Genius of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown & Company) p.49 [Useful short biographies with personal asides and one or more example images.]
• Capa, Cornell (ed.) 1984 The International Center of Photography: Encyclopedia of Photography (New York, Crown Publishers, Inc. - A Pound Press Book) p.321-322
• Lenman, Robin (ed.) 2005 The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (Oxford: Oxford University Press) [Includes a short biography on J.E. Mayall.]
• Weaver, Mike (ed.) 1989 The Art of Photography 1839-1989 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press) p.461-462 [This exhibition catalogue is for the travelling exhibition that went to Houston, Canberra and London in 1989.]
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