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Early Photography in Swasnsea



Further Reading

Books and articles

* Buckman, Rollin. The Photographic Work of Calvert Richard Jones. London: HMSO, 1990.

* Cox, Julian. "From Swansea to the Menai Straits: Towards a History of Photography in Wales." M.Phil. University of Wales, 1990.

* Haworth-Booth, Mark. The Golden Age of British Photography, 1839-1900. London: 1984.

* HTV Cymru Wales. Calvert in Camera. Cardiff: 1990.

* Jones, Iwan Meical. "Scientific visions: the photographic art of William Henry Fox Talbot, John Dillwyn Llewelyn and Calvert Richard Jones." Transactions of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion (1990): 117-192.

* Jones, Iwan Meical. "Susan Franklen's Photograph Album." Friend of the Library (Spring 2003).

* Morris, Richard. John Dillwyn Llewelyn, 1810-1882, the First Photographer in Wales. Cardiff: Welsh Arts Council, 1980.

* Morris, Richard. Penllergare: a Victorian Paradise: a Short History of the Penllergare Estate and its Creator John Dillwyn Llewelyn (1810-82). Llandeilo: The Friends of Penllergare, 1999.

* National Library of Wales. "Calvert Richard Jones and the Daguerreotype of Margam Castle." Exhibition text. National Library of Wales, 2000.

* Painting, David. Swansea's Place in the History of Photography. Swansea: Royal Institution of South Wales, 1982.


Internet links

* Digital Mirror by the National Library of Wales:
http://www.llgc.org.uk/digitalmirror/

* Early Photography at Rijksmuseum Amsterdam, University of Leiden, and 25 other museums, archives and libraries in the Netherlands:
http://www.earlyphotography.nl/indexonload2.htm

* Picture History Magazine:
http://www.picturehistory.com/find/c/354/mcms.html

* University of Glasgow Special Collections:
http://special.lib.gla.ac.uk/teach/Bande/photography.html

* Article by BBC History - Victorian Studio Photographs:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/history/your_history/family/victorian_photo1.shtml

* A History of photography by Dr. Robert Leggat:
http://www.rleggat.com/photohistory/index.html

* Pencils of Light by the National Library of Scotland:
http://www.nls.uk/pencilsoflight/index.html

* Early Photographically Illustrated Books on the British Library's Collect Britain website:
http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/collections/19thphotobooks/

* Photographs by Carleton Watkins at the National Gallery of Art:
http://www.nga.gov/exhibitions/watkinsbro.htm

* Pioneering photography by Swansea Heritage.net:
http://www.swanseaheritage.net/search/subsearch.asp?subID=33