Discover photo studio Burton Brothers

Qualifications: photo studio

Nationality/school: British, New Zealand

See also In this field, you will find references to names of groups or to the artists that made/make up groups. You may also come across references to other artists if there was/is question of collaboration without a joint name. This is the case, for instance, with artists who rendered parts of works by other artists (such as with P.P Rubens and J. Brueghel I).

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Biographical information

Period of activity: 1866 - 1898
studionaam tot ca. 1910 gebruikt door opvolgers Muir & Moodie [Groeneveld 1987]

Active in

Dunedin (Nieuw Zeeland) 1866 - 1898
reis naar Fiji, Samoa en Tonga in 1884, reportage in King Country (Maori Land) in 1885 [Groeneveld 1987]

active in

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Pupil of This field mentions the names of teachers or masters. What is at issue are the teachers who made a significant contribution to the development of a students, as opposed to every instructor they ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Burton, John
vader, fotostudio John Burton & Sons in Leicester, Engeland
Teacher of This field mentions the names of pupils. What is at issue are the pupils who were significantly influenced by a teacher as opposed to every student someone ever had. See also the 'Education' field.: Muir & Moodie

Subjects This field specifies the various subject categories or genres that constitute the oeuvre of the artist in question. The contents of this field are generally based more on the documentation available at the RKD than on the literature.: landscape photography, cityscape, portrait photography, expedition photography, ethnographic photographer
Maori, Samoa, Fiji; antropologisch portretten

Medium/technique: albumen print, panoramic photography
Product: photo book
The Camera in the Coral Islands (1884), New Zealand through the Camera (1884), The Maori at Home (1885), Wintering on Lakes Te Anau and Manapouri (1889)

Literature

H. Knight, Phootgraphy in New-Zealand, A social and technical history, 1971
O. Mathews, The Album of Carte-de-visite and Cabinet Portrait Photographs 1854-1914, 1974, p. 92
H. Knight, 'Burton Brothers of New Zealand', in: History of Photography, 3:2 (1979), p. 167-179
H. Knight, Burton Brothers Photographers, 1980
W. Main, King Country Journey Alfred Burton (tent. cat. Rotorua), 1980
W. Main, 'Tangata Whaka-Ahua (The Man Who Makes Likenesses) Alfred Henry Burton 1834-1914', in: History of Photography, 8:2 (1984), p. 88
A. Groeneveld (et al.), Burton Brothers, Fotografen in Nieuw-Zeeland, 1866-1898, 1987
T. Theye, Der Geraubte Schatten, Die Photographie als ethnographisches Dokument, 1989
C. Geary en V.-L. Webb, Deliviring Views, Distant Cultures in Early Postcards, 1989, p.120 & 123
R. Lenman (ed.), The Oxford Companion to the Photograph, 2005
J. Hannavy, Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography, 2008

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