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Adolphus Verey
Adolphus Verey (1862, in Melbourne – 1933, in Castlemaine, Victoria, Castlemaine) was an Australian commercial photographer operating in North Central Victoria from the 1880s. An archive of 6,000 of his glass plates survives and his work of historical value is represented in national collections including the State Library Victoria, State Library of Victoria. Origin Adolphus Verey was born in Melbourne in 1862, the fifth of seven children to English-born Harriet (née Lovelock) and Thomas Verey. The family moved to Daylesford, Victoria, Daylesford between 1862 and 1864, where their last child was born and where Verey's parents and at least one of the sons remained. Family members were active in the church and in the local temperance movement. Photographer Verey was trained in photography by a Melbourne firm. He traveled Victoria as an itinerant photographer, then in 1883 operated from a studio with a suitable south light on the corner of Barker and Lyttleton Streets ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Brackets
A bracket is either of two tall fore- or back-facing punctuation marks commonly used to isolate a segment of text or data from its surroundings. They come in four main pairs of shapes, as given in the box to the right, which also gives their names, that vary between British English, British and American English. "Brackets", without further qualification, are in British English the ... marks and in American English the ... marks. Other symbols are repurposed as brackets in specialist contexts, such as International Phonetic Alphabet#Brackets and transcription delimiters, those used by linguists. Brackets are typically deployed in symmetric pairs, and an individual bracket may be identified as a "left" or "right" bracket or, alternatively, an "opening bracket" or "closing bracket", respectively, depending on the Writing system#Directionality, directionality of the context. In casual writing and in technical fields such as computing or linguistic analysis of grammar, brackets ne ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Opalotype
Opalotype or opaltype is an early technique of photography. Opalotypes were printed on sheets of opaque, translucent white glass; early opalotypes were sometimes hand-tinted with colors to enhance their effect. The effect of opalotype has been compared "to watercolor or even pastel in its softer coloring and tender mood." "Opalotype portraits...for beauty and delicacy of detail, are equal to ivory miniatures."Gernsheim, Helmut. ''Creative Photography: Aesthetic Trends, 1839–1960.'' New York, Courier Dover, 1991; p. 56. The basic opalotype technique, involving wet collodion and silver gelatin, was patented in 1857 by Glover and Bold of Liverpool. Opalotypes exploited two basic techniques, using either the transfer of a carbon print onto glass, or the exposure of light-sensitive emulsion on the glass surface to the negative. Opalotype photography, never common, was practiced in various forms until it waned and disappeared in the 1930s. "Milk glass positive" is another alternati ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
