This is the second post in a weekly series highlighting images featuring at the upcoming St Andrews Photography Festival ,1 August – 11 September 2016.… Read More »St Andrews Photography Festival: Hamish Brown in Morocco
This is the first post in a new weekly series highlighting images featured at the upcoming St Andrews Photography Festival, 1 August – 11 September… Read More »St Andrews Photography Festival: Mrs Beatrice Broughton, by Thomas Rodger (1832-1883)
Mark Neville (b. 1966) is a photographer known for his multi-layered social documentary projects. I first came across Neville’s work when visiting the Scottish Parliament… Read More »New Acquisitions Highlight: Mark Neville’s Photobooks
The following is a guest post by Dr Alistair Scott, Senior Lecturer, Edinburgh Napier University, marking the launch of the Franki Raffles Archive website www.frankirafflesarchive.org:… Read More »International Women’s Day: Launch of www.frankirafflesarchive.org
Born in Manchester and raised in London, Franki Raffles was an alumna of St Andrews University (MA in Moral Philosophy, 1977). After graduating she made… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 47: Celebrating Women: the Franki Raffles Photographic Collection
I must’ve been 14 or 15 when my parents brought home a piece of software that would literally change their professional lives and would become… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 39: Rejlander’s ‘The two ways of life’ (c. 1857)
This week we have a guest post by Roger McStravick, a golf history writer specialising in St Andrews, Old Tom Morris and legends from the… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 38: Precognition Statements, Receipts, and the Making of ‘St Andrews – In The Footsteps of Old Tom Morris’
Alexander Govan was a chemist and druggist in St Andrews during the 1840s and 1850s. With the new art of photography then in its infancy,… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 36: The Govan Album
In the 1980s there was precious little golf on the TV in the UK. There was no internet and the newspapers were, with the exception… Read More »Reading the collections, Week 31: The Lawrence Levy Collection
This past week, Special Collections helped host the bi-annual meeting of The Calotype Society, a modern day take on the original photographic exchange circles that… Read More »Contemporary Calotypists visit Special Collections to View Early Calotypes and Photographic Prints
“The past is a foreign country: they do things differently there”. So, famously, begins The go-between by L.P. Hartley. I was a visitor to that foreign country… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 9: Cartes de Visite
Back in Week 15 of our Historical How-To’s, we created some collodion wet plate negatives. It is here that I must confess we did not… Read More »52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 50: How to Varnish a Collodion Plate
