Old photography

I occasionally take on requests to restore damaged family photos in Photoshop. Some of these photos have suffered heavy damage, and I enjoy that particular challenge. Most are precious in one way or another to the client, and many times it’s the only photo someone has of a beloved or lost relative.

A list of the first photos of various things. These may be the earliest photos ever captured or the oldest surviving image known.

Gambier Curtis Reeks (1864-1917) was the younger brother of my great-great-grandfather, Alfred Augustus Reeks. Their family owned a photography business in England. He married Rachel Woodnutt in 1895 and had three children: Frederick (1891), Elsie (1894), and Ida (1896).

Chris Wiley interviews the photographer Bruce Davidson on his work, including projects documenting the Freedom Riders, life in Harlem, and Brooklyn gangs, and whose career is the subject of an exhibition on view at Howard Greenberg Gallery, in Manhattan.

Jumping the puddle, Hyde Park - London, 1939 From Hulton Collection

Snow and Rose & Other Tales by Marianna Rothen

Minnie Ashley (1878-1946) - American Actress, Singer and Dancer. Circa 1892-1900.

Jean Dieuzaide: Albarracín, Spain, 1955

Moving the museum’s remarkable photography collection to London won’t reverse the slump in numbers. There’s a far simpler solution