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Horace W. Nicholls (1867 – 1941) A master of his craft, artist-photographer Horace W. Nicholls, ‘hit the ground running’ at the dawn of the new century. He was a towering example of enterprise, creative commitment and commercial acumen. The eldest ...
Horace Walter Nicholls was born in Cambridge in 1867 to his mother Charlotte and photographer father Arthur. Aged 19 he worked as a studio photographer in Chile for three years. In 1892 he first went to South Africa and in 1899 he was appointed war correspondant for South Africa during the Boer War. In 1902 he returned to England to pursue his career as a freelance photographer.
27 de feb. de 2017 · Fashionable ladies at the races. Photograph by Horace Nicholls, reproduced with kind permission of the Horace Nicholls Estate. 17 February, 2017 marked the 150th anniversary of the birth of an important and yet comparatively little-known British photographer.
Horace Nicholls’ archive, comprising photographs, sketches, documents and printed materials, is now dispersed and little known – a factor which has contributed to his disappearance from public view. The archive is preserved as part of the Royal Photographic Society collection (pre-1914), by the IWM (for the
16 de feb. de 2016 · Horace W. Nicholls was one of Britain’s best known photographers of the early twentieth century. As one of the world’s first true photojournalists, his work shaped that of succeeding generations. Nicholls reported the 2nd Anglo-Boer War in South Africa. He established legal copyright in photographs in a landmark court case in 1901.
Horace Nicholls (1867 – 1941) is one of Britain’s best-known photographers of the early twentieth century. Today, he is regarded as a pioneer of documentary and war photography. Nicholls' work reflects the evolution of photography from a specialist pursuit - practiced by a minority - to a medium of modern mass communication and…
2 de jul. de 2019 · As Official Photographer of Great Britain during World War I, Horace Nicholls was commissioned to make a record of the war at home: the great munitions factories and shipyards, training camps, new recruits and soldiers on leave.
