'Mongst mines and miners: underground scenes by flash-light : a series of photographs, with explanatory letterpress, illustrating methods of working in Cornish mines

• • Is soort werk 

    Special collections

Door

• • Heeft auteur 

    Burrow, J.C.

Medewerking van

• • Met medewerking van 

    Burrow, J.C.
  • Met medewerking van 

    Thomas, William

Uitgever

• Uitgave

  Londonn: Simkin, Marshall, Hamilton, Kent and Co, 1893

• Jaar

  • Publicatie jaar 

    1893

Gaat over

• Onderwerp

  • Als onderwerp 

    steenkolenmijn
  • Als onderwerp 

    fotografisch geïllustreerde boeken (vorm)
  • Als onderwerp 

    nijverheid

Type

• Taal

  • Heeft publicatie taal 

    Engels

Annotaties / titel notitie's

• Notities

  • Bevat: Part I: An account of the photographic experiences / J.C. Burrow and Part II: A description if the subjects photographed / by William Thomas
  • First edition. Given a good note in Imagining Paradise : “Photography was used in the service of engineering as well as science and medicine, and J. C. Burrow was the master of that dirty and dangerous occupation, the photographing of deep metal mines. In perfecting his technique he was encouraged by the engineer and teacher William Thomas, secretary to the Mining Association and Institute of Cornwall, who lectured with lantern slides made from Burrow’s negatives. Burrow pioneered his own system of illumination, combining magnesium powder to illuminate the main exposure with limelight, fired simultaneously, to pick out details in dense shadow. The exceptional clarity of the Woodburytypes that illustrate this book belie the conditions under which the negatives were made. As Burrow wrote, “The bottom of the shaft in Cook’s Kitchen Mine...was a difficult subject. The temperature there was 100 degrees F...the camera was attached to the ladder and tilted at an angle of 45 degrees. Water dropped everywhere and came from the foot-wall in a steady stream. Heat, water, and vapour, combined with the peculiar setting of the camera made the work tedious and difficult.” (note by Rachael Stuhlman). The essay by Burrow describes how the camera was used; that by Thomas gives a description of the subjects. Roosens & Salu 3938. A catalogue note laid in this copy states that “only 237 copies were subscribed to.” (Charles Wood, cat. 164)

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