Robert Pols

Fascinating insight into the experience of customers being photographed in the Victorian period, including many interesting quotations and snippets from newspapers and magazines in the UK and showing the reality. Areas covered include posing, the way the photographer prepares the subject, the colours of clothes not to wear, the smell of chemicals, the head rests and neck stands, the cost, the different types of photographs, the up market photographers and the rogues.

Photographs - Army; Photographs - Military