Mikayla Halliday and Dale Wilson
2022, 6 May
The photohistorian - Alan Griffiths

Ambrotype
10 x 8 in.
 
Private collection
Taken by Mikayla Halliday under the supervision of Dale Wilson at Evergreen House, Dartmouth Heritage Museum, 26 Newcastle Street, Dartmouth, NS B2Y 3M5, Canada. Jeff Ward assisted with props.
 
Century No 7 camera with a 15 inch B&L Wollensak lens set at f16 in a skylight studio. On the chemical side the collodion is a Charles Waldack variant from c1858, and the developer is a Nathan Burgess variant from c1862.
 
The book on the table is Stephen Berkman, 2020, Predicting the Past - Zohar Studios: The Lost Years, one of the finest explorations of photohistory.
 
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