tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8455284570156061492.post1758377356941088592..comments2024-03-13T19:15:16.820+01:00Comments on KABLOONAS: LOVE YE THE STRANGERS Andrés Paredeshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17283802897907742244noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8455284570156061492.post-45885855261659745082014-11-27T10:56:07.396+01:002014-11-27T10:56:07.396+01:00Thank you very much Russell. I wasn´t aware of tha...Thank you very much Russell. I wasn´t aware of that information. I had the naive and romantic idea of a Richard Beard wandering in the mist of the docks of the Thames, scrutinizing the river. But, deepening now a little bit more on his biography after what you have told me, it is true that it has much more sense that it could have not Richard himself who carried about alone the job. I couldn´t have imagined that at those early stages he could have reached such level of business with that ´still in experimenting´ profesion.Andrés Paredeshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17283802897907742244noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8455284570156061492.post-29229362603015543862014-11-26T22:33:46.571+01:002014-11-26T22:33:46.571+01:00Andrés, a great post, it's a poignant tale, an...Andrés, a great post, it's a poignant tale, and wellp-told! As to Beard, I don't think we need to read too much into this; Mr. Beard was not himself a photographer, but a former coal-merchant who owned a pioneering photographic firm. He would have sent staff members to take the Franklin Daguerreotypes, and probably did the same for Erasmus York. His studio at the Regent-Street Polytechnic was convenient to most locations in London, and many books and newspapers of the day were illustrated with woodcuts based on and credited to Beard's firm.Russell Potterhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11023313195827310776noreply@blogger.com