Alfred & John Bool

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Alfred and John Bool were a pair of British brothers who photographed 19th-century London.[1]

Life and work

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Drury Lane recorded by Henry Dixon and Alfred and John Bool, 1876

Alfred Henry Bool (1844–1926) and John James Bool (1850–1933) were both born in London. They opened a photo studio together in Pimlico in the 1860s, and John Bool worked there until 1918.[2]

In 1875 the brothers were hired by Alfred Marks, the director of the Society for Photographing Relics of Old London,[3] for whom they photographed numerous historic buildings including the Oxford Arms Inn, Lincoln's Inn, the Smithfield area, Temple Bar, Gray's Inn, St. Bartholomew's and the Cloth Fair.[4] The album prints were made by the brothers in the company of Henry Dixon.[2]

In 1977, works by Alfred & John Bool and Henry Dixon were shown at the documenta 6 art exhibition in Kassel, Germany.

Further reading

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References

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