| Names: | | | Dates: | 1813 - 1888 | | Born: | England | | Active: | Middle East / Turkey / India | | Gender: | Male |
English photographer who photographed throughout the Mediterranean in the 1850s. In 1855 he photographed the Crimean War. Later he photographed in Egypt, the Middle East and India. He was the brother-in-law of photographers Antonio and Felice BeatoPreparing biographies
General reading
Lawrence, James, 1981, 1854-56 Crimea: The War with Russia from Contemporary Photographs, (Van Nostrand) isbn-10: 0442245696 isbn-13: 978-0442245696 [LL_REF:1864]
Öztuncay, B, 2003, The Photographers of Constantinople: Pioneers, Studios and Artists from 19th Century Istanbul. Vol.1 - Text and Photographs. Vol.2 - The Album, (Istanbul: Aygaz) [LL_REF:1079]
Oztuncay, Bahattin, 2006, The Photographers of Constantinople, (Istanbul) [LL_REF:1112]
Readings on, or by, individual photographers
n.d., James Robertson: Photographer of Istanbul, (London: The British Council) [LL_REF:2246]
Oztuncay, Bahattin, 1992, James Robertson: Pioneer of Photography in The Ottoman Empire, (Istanbul: Eran) [LL_REF:2245 *B]
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 | James Robertson: Cathcart's Hill |
|  | James Robertson: Greece: Athens: Acropolis |
|  | James Robertson: Greece: Athens: Temple of Olympian Zeus (Olympieion) |
|  | James Robertson: Interior of the Malakoff Fortress |
|  | James Robertson: Interior of the Redan, Sevastopol |
|  | James Robertson: Israel and Palestine: Jerusalem |
|  | James Robertson: Painted salt prints |
|  | James Robertson: Turkey: Constantinople - Istanbul |
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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 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.49 [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.58
• Perez, Nissan N. 1988 Focus East: Early Photography in the Near East 1839-1885 (New York: Harry N. Abrams, Inc.) p.210-211 [Short biography on James Robertson possibly with example plates.]
• Witkin, Lee D. and Barbara London 1979 The Photograph Collector’s Guide (London: Secker and Warburg) p.222-223 [Long out of print but an essential reference work - the good news is that a new edition is in preparation.]
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