Henry Yorke
20-Aug-2022, 07:13
An interesting post on the LRB blog this week about a new booked entitled "Shipwrecks" featuring the Gibson's of Scilly Shipwreck collection at Maritime Museum in Greenwich. Most of the large format photographs were taken between 1870 to about 1960 around the west coast of Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly.
From Alice Spawls' post:
"...when the Aksai, a Russian steamer, was wrecked on White Island later that year, [Alexander] went out in a small boat, in a November gale, taking his large-format camera and several lenses as well as two heavy, fragile, expensive glass plates. The plates had to be kept wet and unmussed until they could be developed in the darkroom. Alexander’s daring became business for the family."
Post here:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n16/alice-spawls/shipwreck
And book here:
https://www.maxstrom.se/bocker/288054/shipwreck/
From Alice Spawls' post:
"...when the Aksai, a Russian steamer, was wrecked on White Island later that year, [Alexander] went out in a small boat, in a November gale, taking his large-format camera and several lenses as well as two heavy, fragile, expensive glass plates. The plates had to be kept wet and unmussed until they could be developed in the darkroom. Alexander’s daring became business for the family."
Post here:
https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v44/n16/alice-spawls/shipwreck
And book here:
https://www.maxstrom.se/bocker/288054/shipwreck/