| Names: | Born: John Jabez Edwin Mayall
Born: John Jabez Edwin Meal
Other: J.J.E. Mayall
Other: Jabez Meal
Other: John Jabez Mayall
Pen: Professor Highschool
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| | Dates: | 1813, 17 September - 1901, 6 March | | Born: | Great Britain, Manchester | | Active: | US | | Gender: | Male |
British photographer and daguerreotypist. Particularly noted for 1851 photographs of the Crystal Palace Exhibition in London.Preparing biographies
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Family history
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Exhibitions on this 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.321-322
• Lenman, Robin (ed.) 2005 The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (Oxford: Oxford University Press) [Includes a short biography on J.E. Mayall.]
• Weaver, Mike (ed.) 1989 The Art of Photography 1839-1989 (New Haven and London: Yale University Press) p.461-462 [This exhibition catalogue is for the travelling exhibition that went to Houston, Canberra and London in 1989.]
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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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