Little Woman. The art of being Jane Wigley, daguerreotypist

Jane Wigley, one of Britain´s first female photographers, and the official licentiate to take daguerreotype portraits in boomtown Newcastle, is today, as she was then, disregarded as a footnote. The pictures she took appeared lost, her life´s story without bookends. New research however illuminates the unique shaping behind Jane Wigley´s character- for the soldier´s daughter had spent much of her childhood in the company of a robot, an invisible girl, and an apparition with bright pink eyes, before coming out into the world herself as a nightingale. Jane Wigley had enjoyed a full, even brazen life before devoting her energy to the world´s newest wonder, photography.
Kelvin Wilson is an archaeological illustrator working for museums and publishers. Research into early photographers led him, amongst others, to catalog the life and work of John Sherrington, a calotypist who like himself once emigrated from northern England to the Netherlands.

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