| Names: | | | Dates: | 1826, 8 March - 1891, 25 November | | Born: | Scotland, Paisley | | Died: | Canada, Montreal | | Active: | Canada | | Gender: | Male |
Emigrated to Canada in 1856 and became one of the preeminent Canadian portrait photographers who also took cityscapes of Montreal and intriguing photocollages of large groups. He had studios in various cities including Montreal, Ottawa, Toronto and Halifax. The McCord Museum of Canadian History, 690 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec H3A 1E9, Canada holds the Notman Photographic Archives.
WARNING: Take care not to confuse with his son William McFarlane Notman who was also a photographer - hence the studio name of Wm. Notman & Son.Preparing biographies
General reading
Triggs, Stanley, Graham, Conrad, Young, Brian and Lauzon, Gilles, 1992, Pont Victoria: un lien vital = Victoria Bridge: the vital link, (Montreal: McCord Museum of Canadian History) isbn-10: 1895615011 [Exhibition catalogue] [Δ]
Readings on, or by, individual photographers
Notman, William, 1863, Photographic selections, (Montreal) [Δ]
Notman, William, [1864], North American scenery . . . 1863–64, (Montreal) [Δ]
Notman, William & Taylor, John Fennings, 1865–68, Portraits of British Americans, with biographical sketches (3 volumes), (Montreal) [Δ]
Triggs, Stanley & Harper, J. Russell, 1967, Portrait of a period: a collection of Notman photographs, 1856-1915, (Montreal: McGill University Press) [Introduction by Edgar Andrew Collard] [Δ]
Triggs, Stanley G., 1985, William Notman: The Stamp of a Studio, (Toronto: Art Gallery of Ontario; Coach House Press) isbn-10: 088910283X [Δ]
Triggs, Stanley G., 1994, The Composite Photographs of William Notman, (Montreal: McCord Museum of Canadian History) isbn-10: 1895615089 [Δ]
Triggs, Stanley G., Dodds, Gordon & Hall, Roger, 1993, Notman's World: The nineteenth century through a master lens, (Toronto: McClelland & Stewart Inc.) isbn-10: 0771037732 [Published by David R. Godine Publisher Inc (USA)] [Δ]
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Exhibitions on this website |
 | Otto Reinhold Jacobi - William Notman |
|  | William Notman: H.R.H. Prince Arthur |
|  | William Notman: Victoria Bridge, Montreal, QC |
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All photographs by this photographer
| Wikipedia has a biography of this photographer. | Show on this site | Go to website | | Getty Research, Los Angeles, USA has an ULAN (Union List of Artists Names Online) entry for this photographer. This is useful for checking names and they frequently provide a brief biography. | | Go to website | Grove Art Online (www.groveart.com) has a biography of this artist.
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The Photographic Studio of William Notman
http://www.musee-mccord.qc.ca ...
The McCord Museum (Montreal, Canada) holds the extensive archives of William Nottman (1826-1891) one of the most significant photographers of 19th century Canada.
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The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers. |
• Beaton, Cecil & Buckland, Gail 1975 The Magic Eye: The Genius of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown & Company) p.72 [Useful short biographies with personal asides and one or more example images.]
• Capa, Cornell (ed.) 1984 The International Center of Photography: Encyclopedia of Photography (New York, Crown Publishers, Inc. - A Pound Press Book) p.365
• Lenman, Robin (ed.) 2005 The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (Oxford: Oxford University Press) [Includes a short biography on William Notman.]
• Witkin, Lee D. and Barbara London 1979 The Photograph Collector’s Guide (London: Secker and Warburg) p.203-204 [Long out of print but an essential reference work - the good news is that a new edition is in preparation.]
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If there is an analysis of a single photograph or a useful self portrait I will highlight it here. |
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