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Thank you Lisa, and Christine. That website look great!

Many thanks,

Lowri

Lowri Jones | Collections Officer

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Subject: Re: Photography techniques

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hi Lowri

Have you tried this website: http://www.graphicsatlas.org/ I've found it very useful for info on photography processes.

Kind regards

Lisa

Lisa Peatfield

Project Officer - Changing Faces, Hidden Stories: photographs from Hackney’s RA Gibson studio 1952-1978

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Current Exhibitions from Hackney Archives

Changing Faces, Hidden Stories: Photographs from RA Gibson's studio (at Hackney Museum)

A selection of photographs taken by RA Gibson's studio in the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s. See a slice of Hackney's history and maybe someone you know!

Sharing Our Stories: Jewish Stamford Hill 1950s-1980s

An exhibition of stories, objects and photos of businesses and community groups that have had a big impact on Stamford Hill during the 1950s to 1980s, curated by young women from Teen Action, a Charedi Orthodox community group.

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On Mon, 3 Jun 2019 at 09:44, Lowri Jones <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

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Good morning everyone,

I’m currently revising our Adlib thesaurus terms, which have never had any work done on them in the past, and currently working on the ‘techniques’ section, and am a bit stumped on what photography terms we need. I’ve looked at a number of the openly available techniques thesauri (MERL, Getty), but the level of detail they go into is way too much for our needs. We’ve a relatively small collection of photographs (just over 400), which are mostly late 19^th century or 1960s, with a few studio portraits c. 1920 and a few colour photos from 1980s<.

I’d like to expand the photography technique terms to include a bit more information than just ‘photography’, but none of us here have enough knowledge of photography processes to know which ones we need and how to describe them in a useable way! Does anyone have any suggestions, or examples of pared-down photography techniques that they’d share?

Many thanks,

Lowri

Lowri Jones | Collections Officer

Library, archive and museum services department | Royal College of Physicians

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