Illustrated catalogue of the Royal Photographic Society's international exhibition at the Crystal Palace, 1898
An illustrated catalogue issued by the Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain in London in 1898 to document its international photographic exhibition at the Crystal Palace, aimed at photographers, exhibitors and collectors of artistic photography. Its plates reproduce atmospheric pictorialist photographs of moonlit water, storm clouds and shipping beside line drawings of period hand cameras with their fittings, showing soft tonal gradation and dark, quiet compositions a designer could borrow for moody backgrounds or vintage camera motifs.
