Frederick Evans (1853 - 1943) était un libraire et photographe anglais. Il acheta son premier appareil en 1883 pour réaliser des photographies au microscope et des paysages. George Smith, propriétaire de la "Sciopticon Company", fabriqua des lanternes de projections pour les négatifs d'Evans, qui reçut une médaille d'honneur de la "Photographic Society of London" récompensant ses micrographies.
Evans s'est engagé dans un long travail sur la photographie de l'architecture des cathédrales. En 1891 il fut élu membre de la "London and Provincial Photographic Association". Vers 1890, il devint le partenaire du libraire Edward Jones, dont il hérita quelques temps après. Il se retira de la librairie en 1898 pour se consacrer entièrement à la photographie d'art et à la rédaction d'articles sur son procédé favori, le procédé au platine. Il fut élu au "Linked Ring Brotherhood" in 1900 et il accomplit une démonstration personnelle de son travail devant la "Royal Photographic Society" en avril 1900. En 1903 son travail parut dans le magazine "Camera Work" d'Alfred Stieglitz. Evans fut élu "Honorary Fellow" de la Royal Photographic Society en 1928.

Photographie/Personnalités/S/Joseph Wilson Swan

Joseph Wilson Swan était un physicien et chimiste anglais (1828 - 1914), auteur de plusieurs découvertes utiles pour la photographie.
Joseph Wilson Swan (1828 - 1914) was a physicist and chemist, famous for the invention of the incandescent light bulb. Swan also made discoveries in the field of photography - the carbon process and the rapid dry plate.

Photographie/Personnalités/W/James Booker Blakemore Wellington

James Booker Blakemore Wellington était un photographe anglais (1858 - 1939). Il a travaillé à New-York avec George Eastman dans les années 1880, avant de revenir en Angleterre comme directeur de Kodak, puis de fonder sa propre compagnie de matériel photographique, Wellington & Ward. Il devint membre de la Royal Photographic Society en 1887 et Hon. FRPS en 1935.

Arthur Marshall
Photographie/Personnalités/M/Arthur Marshall

Arthur Marshall était un photographe britannique.
Arthur Marshall took the photographs to illustrate the book 'Three Vagabonds in Friesland With a Yacht and a Camera' by H. F. Tomlin (1906). He received many commissions for photographs and pencil drawings from the Dutch government. John Furley Lewis (1867 - 1939) was born in Nottingham. He became involved in photography at Cambridge in 1883. From 1893, he worked for a St. Albans printers, working on new colour printing techniques. He took over Frank Brangwen's photographic studio in Kensington, working as a portrait photographer. Elected member of the RPS in 1899; admitted FRPS in 1904; awarded Hon. FRPS in 1918, RPS President 1914 to 1916.

Thomas Annan
Photographie/Personnalités/A/James Craig Annan

James Craig Annan était un photographe écossais (1864 - 1946), fils de Thomas Annan.
James Craig Annan (1864 - 1946) was the son of the successful Scottish professional photographer, Thomas Annan (1829 - 1887). He studied chemistry at Anderson's College in Glasgow from 1878 - 1879. He worked in the family’s photography firm. He travelled to Vienna in 1883 and was taught the process of photogravure by Karl Klíc. Annan made photogravures from calotypes of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson; c. 1891 he moved onto portrait photography, photographing Charles Rennie Mackintosh, Ellen Terry and George Bernard Shaw. Born in Boston Massachusetts, Fred Holland Day (1864 - 1933) was a prominent American photographer and his lifelong passions were literature, art, photography and aesthetics. He first trained as a painter; co-founded and self-financed the publishing firm of Copeland and Day (1893 - 1899); took up photography in 1887; regularly travelled to London and established links with the British photographic scene, joining the Linked Ring in 1896. By the 1890s Day had become one of the undisputed leaders of the American art photography movement. A millionaire book publisher and aesthete, he was a friend of Oscar Wilde (1854 - 1900) and Aubrey Beardsley (1872 - 1898). In 1900 Day organised a photographic exhibition 'The New School of American Photography' which was shown in London and created a sensation. He ceased taking photographs around 1915.

Photographie/Personnalités/L/Harold Mortimer Lamb

Harold Mortimer Lamb était un photographe et critique britannique (1872 - 1970).
Harold Mortimer Lamb (1872 - 1970) was an art critic, photographer and artist. He was born in Surrey, England, and in 1909 moved to Canada; first Montreal then Vancouver. He served as Secretary-Treasurer of the Provincial Mining Association of British Columbia, Secretary of the Canadian Mining Institute and on staff of the Department of Mines in Ottawa. Lamb took up painting on his retirement c. 1942. He became an elected member of the Royal Photographic Society in 1920; admitted FRPS in 1921. Lamb was married to artist Vera Weatherbie (1909 - 1977); father of artist Molly Lamb Bobak (born 1922). Steffens-Colmer Studios was founded by Richard J Steffens, located in Vancouver and active c. 1937.

Photographie/Personnalités/C/Alvin Langdon Coburn

Alvin Langdon Coburn était un photographe britannique (1882 - 1966).
Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882 - 1966) first exhibited in London with the RPS in 1900. After studying in Paris, Coburn returned to his native America in 1902, where he opened a studio in New York. Between 1903 and 1909 many of his works were published in the journal 'Camera Work'. Coburn's impressionistic images were heavily influenced by the Linked Ring Brotherhood. In 1917 he pioneered vortographs, an abstract work produced using mirrors in a vortoscope, rather like a kaleidoscope. In 1930 he moved from the USA, to Harlech in north Wales and was naturalized as a British citizen in 1932. From 1923 to 1930 Coburn became completely devoted to the life of the Universal Order: a comparative religious group that had begun in 1911 as the Hermetic Truth Society and the Order of Ancient Wisdom. Coburn became an elected member of the RPS in 1907; admitted FRPS in 1913; awarded Hon. FRPS in 1931, and was a member of the Linked Ring Brotherhood.

Photographie/Personnalités/W/Edward John Wall

Edward John Wall wrote many books on the history and processes of photography including 'A Dictionary of Photography for the Amateur and Professional Photographer' (1889) and 'Practical Colour Photography' (1929). He was an elected member of the RPS in 1893; admitted FRPS in 1895.

Photographie/Personnalités/W/Clarence Hudson White

Clarence Hudson White était un photographe et professeur d'université états-unien né à Newark le 8 avril 1871 et décédé le 7 juillet 1925 à Mexico. Il fut un des membres fondateurs du mouvement Photo-Secession. Au cours de sa vie, il a été largement reconnu comme un maître pour ses portraits picturaux et romantiques ainsi que pour son excellence en tant que professeur de photographie. Vers la fin de sa carrière, il a fondé la Clarence H. White School of Photography, qui a produit un grand nombre des photographes les plus connus du XXe siècle, dont Margaret Bourke-White, Dorothea Lange et Paul Outerbridge.

Alvin Langdon Coburn
Photographie/Fabricants/ICA/ICA Ideal 225

Bibliographie.
Mckeown's Price Guide To Antique & Classic Cameras 2005-2006
Author: McKeown, James M. (EDT)/ McKeown, Joan C. (EDT) 
ISBN13/EAN: 9780931838415 pp.416-17 
Liens.
https://sites.google.com/site/fromthefocalplanetoinfinity/ica (site très complet sur ICA, propose en particulier des catalogues du constructeur en pdf) 
http://camerapedia.wikia.com/wiki/Ica_Ideal 
https://lommen9.home.xs4all.nl/Zeiss%20Ideal/index.html (bien illustré)

Photographie/Personnalités/L/Herbert Lambert

Biographie.
Herbert Lambert était un photographe anglais (1881 - 1936). Il était connu comme portraitiste, en particulier par sa série "Modern British Composers".

Photographie/Personnalités/S/John Spiller