Unlike French stereo photographers, who flooded the
market with Spanish views, the most important British
publishers and photographers rarely made Spanish
views. Quite possibly this was precisely because of the
rapid market penetration of the French, such as Gaudin,
Ferrier and others, and in spite of the leading British
photographic houses, such as Frith or George W. Wilson,
also wanting to include Spanish views in their catalogues. The photographer Frank Good would be the
only British photographic editor to make a collection
of some importance of Spanish stereoscopic views
during the first decades of the history of photography,
visiting and photographing the cities of San Sebastian,
Zaragoza, Barcelona, Tarragona, Valencia, Seville and
Cordoba. About one hundred views, of which more than
half are of Cordoba and Seville, do not include, strangely, cities such as Madrid, Toledo and Granada.
type
paper
keywords
Frank Mason Good, stereoscopy, Francis Frith, Robert Peters Napper, George Washington Wilson, William Atkinson, charles Piazzi Smyth
copyright
IJFMA 2016 (by-nc-nd)
year
16/12/2016
country
Portugal
place
Film and Media Art Department/ Lusófona University
