Lectures from the Project
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Introduction to Antique Photographs and How To Date Them sets out the various mount types of nineteenth-century photographs and includes a lecture on the history of portrait photography. This first lecture in the series includes a history for each mount type and their key features for date estimation including daguerreotypes, ambrotypes, tintypes, cartes de visite, cabinet cards and cartes postale. Lastly, the lecture introduces Taylorian's step-by-step approach to deconstructing and dating antique photographs.
Victorian Fashion in Antique Photographs, as the second lecture in the series, builds on the first by delving deep into Victorian fashion styles, tastes and trends as a tool for estimating a date for our antique photographs. This second lecture includes a brief history of how photography developed in the twentieth century followed by a deep-dive into attire of the nineteenth century, including the items commonly and uncommonly held in nineteenth century portraits and the variety of reasons portraits were taken.