Philip Henry Delamotte
Philip Henry Delamotte (* April 21 1821 in Sandhurst, † February 24, 1889 in Bromley, Kent ) was a British photographer, painter and illustrator.
Life and work
Delamotte was born in 1821 as son of William Alfred Delamotte, a drawing teacher with French ancestors, at the Royal Military College, Sandhurst. He was, like his two brothers, a talented illustrator and engraver.
From 1855 to 1887, he taught as a professor of drawing and perspective at King's College London and undertook with his friend, the photographer and editor Joseph Cundall, photographic tours in Yorkshire.
Technology
Delamotte Beginning in the late 1840s an established photographer who mastered the technique of collodion and offered both portrait photography and prints. From Talbot he apparently had permission to work with the 1841 invention patented by him the calotype, an early negative process. The remaining negative provided the opportunity to create any number of deductions, and thus was a revolution in the art of photography.
In 1853 he published a photographic manual, The Practice of Photography, where he went in detail on photographic processes of Talbot, Gustave Le Gray, Joseph Cundall, Hugh Welch Diamond and others.
1856 invented his friend John Dillwyn Llewelyn the Oxymel process, which was brought by Delamotte to the public. The novelty was that after the collodion process, a further step has been added, namely a dip in Oxymel, an emulsion of honey and vinegar. This treatment made the negative plates of the photo -sensitive and less made it possible to coat the dry plate in advance, and then bring to illuminate, instead of producing the plates to expose the ground and in the wet state, as was common.
Topics
Delamotte was one of the first photographers to the systematic documentation of public infrastructure devoted themselves. Bridges, railways, public buildings, places were its priority themes.
1851 World's Fair was held in London, for which the Crystal Palace was built in Hyde Park. The success was so great that the existing iron grilles and glass segments, built in the then revolutionary modular construction enables to Sydenham in the County of London and in 1854 reopened.
Philip Henry Delamotte was committed after the end of the world exhibition to document the construction of the Crystal Palace in Sydenham 1851-1854. Published a year after the reopening of the glass building Delamotte with the help of his friend Cundall documentation in the book Photographic Views of the Progress of the Crystal Palace, Sydenham.
In 1977, his photographic works at documenta 6 in Kassel were shown in the Department 150 Years of Photography.
Publications
- The Practice of Photography, 1853 ISBN 040504903X
- The Oxymel Process in Photography 1856 ISBN 1164820524
- Photographic Views of the Progress of the Crystal Palace, Sydenham with 160 photographs, 1855