A Century of Photographs, Found in Australia
We are pleased to announce that the winner of the James David Forbes Collecting Prize 2019 is Antares Wells, recent graduate in the School of… Read More »A Century of Photographs, Found in Australia
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2019 St Andrews Photography Festival: Science & Photography
In October this year St Andrews holds its 4th annual Photography Festival. Drawing heavily on the University’s teaching and research collections to support the theme… Read More »2019 St Andrews Photography Festival: Science & Photography
New Acquisitions: Catching the Tide
Last weekend we were delighted to receive officially our Catching the Tide acquisition from photographer Colin McPherson. From the moment we first saw this iconic… Read More »New Acquisitions: Catching the Tide
St Andrews Photography Festival: Programme
This is the final post in our series about the St Andrews Photography Festival – you can see the previous posts in the series below:… Read More »St Andrews Photography Festival: Programme
St Andrews Photo Festival: Robert Moyes Adam
This is the fifth post in a weekly series that highlights images featuring at the upcoming St Andrews Photography Festival, 1 August – 11 September… Read More »St Andrews Photo Festival: Robert Moyes Adam
Reading the Collections, Week 52: Seeing things in a different light.
I wanted to do something a little different for the last of the reading the collections blogs so I decided that it would be intriguing… Read More »Reading the Collections, Week 52: Seeing things in a different light.
International Women’s Day: Launch of www.frankirafflesarchive.org
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
Contemporary Calotypists visit Special Collections to View Early Calotypes and Photographic Prints
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
Reading the Collections, Week 9: Cartes de Visite
“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
How many ways can you view the solar eclipse?
At 9:30 this morning, several of the special collections team took an early morning break, found a sunny patch of grass and experienced the solar… Read More »How many ways can you view the solar eclipse?
New acquisition: Peter Fraser’s collection of Martin Parr photobooks
This past Monday morning was a sad morning. It was the last Monday morning in a series of Monday mornings that I’ve been spending inside… Read More »New acquisition: Peter Fraser’s collection of Martin Parr photobooks
52 Weeks of Historical How-To’s, Week 50: How to Varnish a Collodion Plate
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