Does anyone know?

[Jim Salt]

Some time ago at a used book sale I picked up a small book entitled Camera Studies of Liverpool Cathedral - which is nothing but a slim collection of reproductions of about 20 BW prints about 6 X 9" bound in a heavy textured rag paper cover, without text or any sort of normal publication data. The labels for the photographs are printed on the (blank) back sides of the preceding pages. On the rear cover is a note saying that the plates "are from copyright photographs by Leonard Card".

Have any of you erudite and learned people ever heard of Leonard Card, or seen any of his work? My guess is that the book is from the 1960s or a bit before that, but the photographs bear the stamp of large format work from much earlier, perhaps full plate negatives between 1900 and 1920-something. 

If anyone knows anything about the photographer I'd appreciate information?

Thanks

Jim Salt

[PhotoBob]

sorry I cannot help

I wonder if it is a psydo-name

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[Jim Salt]

Bob:

    Thanks for the reply. No, this is obviously an early architectural photographer who was apparently known int eh British Isles, but I can't say when? prior to 1900 perhaps? very early in the century, at any rate. Nothing on him on the internet....

    How are things going?

Jim

[Bruce and Nina Pollock]

You're right - he's a rare bird on the interweb thing.  But it appears your book is quite valuable.  Here's a link to an auctioneer from Liverpool estimating the value at £200 - 300 back in 2009.  The cover photo is quite beautiful - probably platinum?

 

http://www.bonhams.com/auctions/17151/lot/666/

[Jim Salt]

Hi Bruce & Nina:

    Thanks for the link; I wasn't able to find anything at all. However, that is not the book I have. And the picture is not a cover photograph, though it is one of the images inside. My book is in a plain heavy paper cover like tinted watercolour paper, with an ornate title "Camera Studies of Liverpool Cathedral" and nothing else. It contains 12 images, about 6 X 9", rather as if someone had made a number of contact prints and bound them into a booklet. There is no mention of Royalty, no title page, etc. The only mention of Leonard Card is the credit in small print at the bottom of the outside back cover.

   Maybe I'll try the auction company in your link to see if they can shed any light on this "edition".

    I hope you're doing a bit of photography once in a while?

Jim

[Walter Ash]

If it helps any it looks like he either had another book, or an alternate title for the same one you refer to, called "Camera Studies of the Work of Sir Giles Scott, R. A., Architect of Liverpool Cathedral":

http://www.abebooks.co.uk/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=1090295377&searchurl=an%3Dleonard%2Bcard%26bi%3Dh%26bsi%3D0%26ds%3D30

Good luck with your search.  Have you been out in the forests lately?  The mushroom crop this year is phenomenal; countless species and, in spots, the forest floor is carpeted with fruiting bodies.

[Jim Salt]

Walter:

    Yes I've been out a lot,. but apparently in the wrong places! I've found very little. Where are you looking?

Jim

[Walter Ash]

Lots around Chemainus, various locations.   Stocking Creek park in Saltair has some (more concentrated on the west side of the valley than the east side - a bit of bushwhacking on the smaller trails that run along the creek is needed).  Echo Heights forest is particularly rich with them right now (access is from the west terminus of channel blvd, a small road which runs up from Victoria Rd in chemainus).  Some stuff in the municipal land between ashcroft rd and crozier rd / cottonwood rd.

-Walter

[Jim Salt]

Walter:

    I checked out your link and by the description that is the same book, or folio of pictures, that I have, but with a different title (same cover material, same number of images, etc.). The date, 1932, helps a lot. I think what has happened is that Card has issued small selections of these at different times in very small quantities. I note that yours is under 10 pounds.

    Are you doing any photography at all? Haven't heard anything out of you for a long time.

Jim

PS: I was in to St. Cr. Falls recently and only a few fungi and very little water, despite the rains.

J

On 10-Oct-13, at 9:08 AM, Walter Ash wrote:

[Walter Ash]

I found very little fungi around the falls until I went along the narrow trails on the west side of the valley, downhill of the railway  & main path.  Lots in there; found some transluscent "cat's tongue" mushrooms, coral fungi, plenty of others.  Echo Heights is a lot "richer" right now though.

[Walter Ash]

Also sadly I have been very unproductive / unengaged photographically lately.  I haven't been in the right mindset I guess; busy with a baby, busy with work.  I do have a bit of free time but I find getting into the right kind of "observational" mentality takes a lot more than an hour here and there.  An hour outside is scarcely enough time to clear the head, nevermind get into the right frame of mind.    I hope I can figure out how to change this. 

-Walter

[Jim Salt]

Thanks. I've been going in to the falls on the E side, to drop down into the creek just below the falls.. Will also try Echo Heights.

Jim

[Jim Salt]

In times like these you simply seize the half hour or hour, and go out nearby. Eventually something kindles. If you don't, it never does....

I'm hoping to get to Sooke R. soon. Have been going to SaltSpring, but the light has been difficult and the sky changes every ten minutes - no co-operation at all. So I search out old buildings and back streets.

Jim

[Don Wilkes]

Photo-Bob:

 

Did you recently send a note to the group suggesting we view a “document” at some linked site?  The URL made me somewhat hesitant.  See text below (which curiously came to my regular in-box, and not the subsection I have for this group).

 

\donw

 

P.S. I have removed the hyperlink, just in case it’s nasty.

 

. Keep everything Share anything.

Please view the document I uploaded for you. CLICK HERE sign in with your email to view the document.

Regards,

Bob

 

[Lillian Sly]

Looked suspicious to me too. Deleted. Didn't seem like Bob.

Lillian

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[PhotoBob]

I WAS HACKED 

Internet here in China is not reliable which explains the delayed response.

OH I hate when that happens

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[Don Wilkes]

>I WAS HACKED 

 

Ah; I thought as much. I hope your computer wasn’t otherwise compromised.

 

\donw

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