This collection at the AGO is a fascinating eclectic exhibition. It coincides with Free Black North, an exhibition of unknown free blacks entering Canada during the American Civil War. A must see.
http://www.ago.net/photography
Some of my favourite works...
Linneus Tripe - he only photographed for 6 years in India and Burma, then stopped.
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/l/linnaeus-tripe-biography/
http://metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2015/linnaeus-tripe
http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/features/slideshows/linnaeus-tripe.html
Jacques Philippe Potteau worked for the Museum of Natural History in Paris and took portraits of dignitaries at Embassies and Missions.
Dead Link Removed
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/jacques-philippe-potteau-selected-portraits-of-algerian-diplomats
Three albums belonging to Samuel Bourne on display here. His work was from Simla, India between 1863 and 1870
http://ndmagazine.net/photographer/samuel-bourne/
http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/bournesamuel/#aspace_b96cc98192e59a6838307d3c90f7de2a
http://www.indiaphotographs.co.uk/samuelbourne.html
Lady Annie Brassey's travel album from Niagara Falls to Montreal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Brassey
The elaborate gorgeous Tramp Art Photo Display that was found at a garage sale in Orillia, Ontario in 2011.
https://www.scotiabankcontactphoto....graphy-collection-1840s-to-1880s#&gid=1&pid=3
Caroline Walker's whimsical album pages she created for C.W Bell's family album
https://www.scotiabankcontactphoto....graphy-collection-1840s-to-1880s#&gid=1&pid=1
A cabinet presented to Gustave Le-Gray, full of photographs for the Great Exhibition of Works of Industry of all Nations in Paris 1851
http://www.metmuseum.org/TOAH/hd/gray/hd_gray.htm
http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/le_gray/
Regards, Art
http://www.ago.net/photography
Some of my favourite works...
Linneus Tripe - he only photographed for 6 years in India and Burma, then stopped.
http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/l/linnaeus-tripe-biography/
http://metmuseum.org/exhibitions/listings/2015/linnaeus-tripe
http://www.nga.gov/content/ngaweb/features/slideshows/linnaeus-tripe.html
Jacques Philippe Potteau worked for the Museum of Natural History in Paris and took portraits of dignitaries at Embassies and Missions.
Dead Link Removed
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/jacques-philippe-potteau-selected-portraits-of-algerian-diplomats
Three albums belonging to Samuel Bourne on display here. His work was from Simla, India between 1863 and 1870
http://ndmagazine.net/photographer/samuel-bourne/
http://library.duke.edu/rubenstein/findingaids/bournesamuel/#aspace_b96cc98192e59a6838307d3c90f7de2a
http://www.indiaphotographs.co.uk/samuelbourne.html
Lady Annie Brassey's travel album from Niagara Falls to Montreal
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anna_Brassey
The elaborate gorgeous Tramp Art Photo Display that was found at a garage sale in Orillia, Ontario in 2011.
https://www.scotiabankcontactphoto....graphy-collection-1840s-to-1880s#&gid=1&pid=3
Caroline Walker's whimsical album pages she created for C.W Bell's family album
https://www.scotiabankcontactphoto....graphy-collection-1840s-to-1880s#&gid=1&pid=1
A cabinet presented to Gustave Le-Gray, full of photographs for the Great Exhibition of Works of Industry of all Nations in Paris 1851
http://www.metmuseum.org/TOAH/hd/gray/hd_gray.htm
http://www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/le_gray/
Regards, Art