WELLINGTON, James Booker Blakemore
b. 1858; d. 1939
J.B.B. Wellington studied architecture but soon turned to photography.
In the 1880s he worked with George Eastman in
New York, and then returned to England to become manager of Kodak at Harrow,
before eventually setting up his own firm.
He developed POP paper, canvas bromide, a fast-grained emulsion and, in 1889, a negative intensifier.
An accomplished pictorial photographer, his work is clearly
influenced by paintings of John Constable and Thomas Gainsborough. He
was a member of the Linked Ring.
© Robert Leggat, 1999.