| Names: | Other: Calvert R. Jones
Other: Calvert Richard Jones, Jr.
Other: Reverend Calvert Jones
Other: Reverend Calvert Richard Jones, Jr.
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| | Dates: | 1804 - 1877 | | Born: | Great Britain | | Gender: | Male |
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Educated at Oxford and a mathematician, musician, painter and parson, Calvert Richard Jones was introduced to photography by a cousin of Talbot. In 1845 he travelled to Malta and Italy, returning with a collection of photographs. He sold his prints through Talbot and continued to make photographs whilst travelling. He was also one of the first members of the Photographic Society of London.
Calvert Richard Jones was one of the first to learn of W.H. F Talbot's photographic discoveries in the late 1830s through Talbot's friends and relations who lived near to Jones in South Wales. Jones subsequently became one of the few Britons to produced a substantial body of calotypes in Britain and abroad. His work stands out in the early development of photography because of his ability to fuse his technical skill with the influence of his training as a watercolorist.
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Date last updated: 11 Nov 2011.
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General reading
Cox, Julian, 1990, From Swansea to the Menai Straits: Towards a History of Photography in Wales, (M.Phil. University of Wales) [Δ]
Jones, Iwan Meical, 1990, ‘Scientific visions: the photographic art of William Henry Fox Talbot, John Dillwyn Llewelyn and Calvert Richard Jones‘, Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion [Δ]
Readings on, or by, individual photographers
Buckman, Rollin, 1990, The Photographic Work of Calvert Richard Jones, (London: HMSO) [Δ]
HTV Cymru Wales, 1990, Calvert in Camera, (Cardiff) [Δ]
Jones, Iwan Meical, 1991, ‘Calvert Richard Jones: The Earlier Work‘, History of Photography, vol.15, no.3, pp.174-179 [Δ]
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