Alfred and John Bool were a pair of British brothers who photographed 19th century London.[1]
Life and work
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Alfred Henry Bool (1844-1926) and John James Bool (1850-1933) were both born in London. They opened a photo studio together in Pimlico in the 1860s, and John Bool worked there until 1918.[2]
In 1875 the brothers were hired by Alfred Marks, the director of the Society for Photographing Relics of Old London,[3] and would go on to photograph historic buildings including the Oxford Arms Inn, Lincoln's Inn, the Smithfield area, Temple Bar, Gray's Inn, St. Bartholomew's and the Cloth Fair.[4] The album prints were made by the brothers in the company of Henry Dixon.[2]
In 1977, works by Alfred & John Bool and Henry Dixon were shown at the documenta 6 art exhibition in Kassel, Germany.
Further reading
edit- Old London: photographed by Henry Dixon and Alfred & John Bool for the Society for Photographing Relics of Old London, 1975 ISBN 0856701505
References
edit- ^ "Photographers London - Museum of London". 24 July 2013. Archived from the original on 24 July 2013.
- ^ a b "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 26 June 2015. Retrieved 30 May 2019.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link) - ^ "Agenda". Phaidon.
- ^ "Art and artists - Royal Academy of Arts". www.royalacademy.org.uk.