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Last Name Edwards

Given Name Ernest

alt. Names E. E. ;

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Year born 1837

Year died 1903

Place of death London

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Country of Activity England, UK

Worked for A. Agassiz ; H.B. George: [Berne] Oberland & its Glaciers: Expl. & illustr. w.Ice-axe & camera (London 1866) ; Portraits of men of eminence in literature, science&art, with Photographs from life (1864) ; heliotype prints in Charles Darwin: Expression of Emotions in Man & Animals (1872) ; E. Muybridge ;

Patronage head of the Photogravure & Color Company, New York City

Collaborators Prodger 1998: 156f ;

Techniques topographical, geographical, geological, anthropological, astronomical, and botanical photography ; reproduction techniques ;

Sample(s) http://ihm.nlm.nih.gov/luna/servlet/view/all/who/Edwards,+Ernest,+1837-1903./ ;

Archival sources www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp14011/ernest-edwards ;

Published sources Alex Soojung Kim Pang: Technology, Aesthetics, and the development of astrophotography at the Lick Observatory, in Timothy Lenoir (ed.) Inscribing Science (Stanford 1998) ; Alex Soojung Kim Pang in Peter Geimer (ed.) Ordnungen der Wichtbarkeit (Frankfurt a. M. 2001: 106ff.) ;

other Further Place of Activity: United States. London-based photographer, mostly known as a portrait photographer, but also a pioneer in photographically illustrated books & inventor of heliotype; cf. E.E.: The Heliotype Process (1876) ; inventor of heliotype photomech.

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