George Shaw, early Victorian photographer

[A Sparks]

An interesting article on a little known scientist and photographer George Shaw.


New Street

There is an exhibition of his work at the Town Hall tram stop until January ...

Birmingham's 'forgotten' pioneer of photography celebrated

The George Shaw exhibition features reproductions of rare images and recently found daguerreotypes,

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[Stokkie]

An interesting way to display the exhibition outside, I guess it may be seen by passers-by who wouldn't enter a gallery or museum.

A technical paper by Jo Gane is here: https://journal.sciencemuseum.ac.uk...nd-electroplate-in-1840s-birmingham/#abstract
'Photography and Electroplate in 1840s Birmingham Science Museum Group Journal Autumn 2023 https://dx.doi.org/10.15180/232014

 

[Astoness]

An interesting article on a little known scientist and photographer George Shaw.

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New Street

There in and exhibition of his work at the Town Hall tram stop until January ...

Birmingham's 'forgotten' pioneer of photography celebrated

The George Shaw exhibition features reproductions of rare images and recently found daguerreotypes,

www.bbc.co.uk

interesting person who i have never heard of before...thanks

lyn

 

[Stokkie]

interesting person who i have never heard of before...thanks

lyn

I think that aside from historians of photography like the much missed Pete James few people had heard of him. George Shaw (1818 -1904) was born in Dudley and buried in Key Hill. (I think as I'd never heard of him either.)
Derek

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[pjmburns]

Looks as if he was buried with his parents

Is this the right person??

 

[pjmburns]

Photo from Find a Grave

 

[pjmburns]

Write up at the time of his death
Birmingham Daily Gazette August 1904

 

[pjmburns]

It looks a large sum of money and Google suggests this value today,

 

[Stokkie]

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Looks as if he was buried with his parents
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Is this the right person??

Yes, that's him!

 

[Stokkie]

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It looks a large sum of money and Google suggests this vakue today,
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It looks as if being a patent-agent paid well!

 

[pjmburns]

Although his Father is a glass maker on George's sister Rebecca's baptism he is later listed as a "house proprietor".

 

[Stokkie]

Royal Photographic Society

Electroplating and the Daguerreotype with Jo Gane ​

This is a detailed video of an hour. Feb 2024.

 

[BrummieGeoff]

Another interesting early photo by George Shaw dated as c1865. It shows a view of New Street, looking east from the Temple Street junction. Credit: Birmingham Archives & Collections.

 

[AnthonyRockford]

An interesting article on a little known scientist and photographer George Shaw.

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New Street

There is an exhibition of his work at the Town Hall tram stop until January ...

Birmingham's 'forgotten' pioneer of photography celebrated

The George Shaw exhibition features reproductions of rare images and recently found daguerreotypes,

www.bbc.co.uk

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Hadn’t heard of him before - really interesting piece, thanks for sharing. The exhibition sounds well worth a look too.

 

[Stokkie]

Hadn’t heard of him before - really interesting piece, thanks for sharing. The exhibition sounds well worth a look too.

The exhibition outside the Town Hall is over now, I'm afraid. But Jo Gane's video #12
in this thread is well worth watching. She explains the connection between electroplating and daguerréotypes clearly. The daguerréotype is a one off image on a copper plate while the future of photography would lie with reproducing many images from a paper or glass negative, Fox Talbot being an early British pioneer. George Shaw was a remarkable scientist who did not focus on later developments in photography in his lifetime.