Ernest Edwards
1837–1903
Photographer. Ran a photographic studio in London, specialising in portraits, 1864–9. Inventor of the heliotype process in 1869 and manager of the Heliotype Company works in Kilburn, 1872. Moved to Boston, and later New York, where he opened commercial firms in landscape photography and colour printing.
Sources
W. S. Johnson 1990
Post Office London directory
Pritchard 1994
Prodger 2009
photoLondon, www.photolondon.org.uk (accessed 13 March 2012), s.v. Heliotype Co. Ltd.
Bibliography
Johnson, William S. 1990. Nineteenth-century photography: an annotated bibliography, 1839–1879. Boston: G. K. Hall & Co.
Post Office London directory: Post-Office annual directory. … A list of the principal merchants, traders of eminence, &c. in the cities of London and Westminster, the borough of Southwark, and parts adjacent … general and special information relating to the Post Office. Post Office London directory. London: His Majesty’s Postmaster-General [and others]. 1802–1967.
Pritchard, Michael. 1994. A directory of London photographers, 1841–1908. Revised and expanded edition. Watford, Hertfordshire: PhotoResearch.
Prodger, Phillip. 2009. Darwin’s camera: art and photography in the theory of evolution. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
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