“Close Ties: The Railway Station and Photographic Networks,” Photoworks: Photography, Art, Visual Culture 21: Collaboration (2014): 168-173.

The Gothic cathedral and the Victorian railway terminus both served as primary focal points of artistic and engineering activity. Photography’s history in the first century after its invention in 1839 offers a record of the railway station’s importance as a new source of photographic collaboration, and a window through which to glimpse, at least for a moment, the connections, relationships and ordinary friendships that structured early photographic interests, too often overlooked in studies that emphasise individual photographers working in isolation.

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