Names: | Born: John Brampton Philpot Other: J.B. Philpot Other: John Philpot Joint: Philpot & Jackson
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| Dates: | 1812 - 1878 | Active: | Italy |
Stereographs project Business locations Firenze (Florence), Italy (Alan Griffiths, 27 December 2022) [5-6] Active in Florence. T.K. Treadwell & William C. Darrah (Compiled by), Wolfgang, Sell (Updated by), 11/28/2003, Photographers of the World (Non-USA), (National Stereoscopic Association) |
Credit: National Stereoscopic Association with corrections and additions by Alan Griffiths and others. |
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Preparing biographies A native of Maidstone in Kent, John Philpot adopted the name Giovanni when he moved to Florence. Originally a copperplate printer, he became a professional studio photographer about 1850. In the 1856 Photographic Society of Scotland exhibition in Edinburgh, James Drummond of the Royal Scottish Academy submitted two of Philpot’s waxed-paper views of Florence. Philpot then turned to stereoscopic photography, sometimes sharing credit with another photographer by the name of Jackson. Philpot’s one known literary work was his 1854 Sabina: A Sicilian Tale of the Thirteenth Century, a novel the Athenaeum found to be “full of fine writing and modern antique phraseology.” Roger Taylor & Larry J. Schaaf Impressed by Light: British Photographs from Paper Negatives, 1840-1860 (Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 2007) This biography is courtesy and copyright of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and is included here with permission. Date last updated: 4 Nov 2012.
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