This is the fourth instalment in a series of five blog posts featuring juxtapositions of early photographs of St Andrews, selected from the Special Collections… Read More »St Andrews Then and Now: A Rephotography Project: Part IV
This is the third instalment in a series of five blog posts featuring close juxtapositions of early photographs of St Andrews selected from the Special… Read More »St Andrews Then and Now: A Rephotography Project: Part III
This is the second instalment in a series of five blog posts featuring close juxtapositions of early photographs of St Andrews selected from Special Collections,… Read More »St Andrews then and now: A rephotography project: Part II
Term has started, the students are back and that means that another St Andrews Photography Festival is upon us. This year we are examining the… Read More »St Andrews Photography Festival 2018
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
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
For our ‘April Fool’ post, we decided not to attempt the creation of a spoof medieval manuscript or late 14th century Scottish printed book, tempting… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 41: All is not as it seems…
The first photographic print medium was known as the salted paper print and was invented by the English scientist William Henry Fox Talbot. Publicly announced… Read More »52 Weeks of Inspiring Illustrations, Week 11: Imbedded in the fibres: The Salted Paper Print
