Photography on the Common c.1877 Size:extra large Sunil Gupta

Sunil Gupta

The first nine years of his life were spent in Nigeria and Sierra Leone

Westminster Bridge and the Houses of Parliament from the River

Rotherhithe

different railway companies ran the two separate station buildings of Victoria

Photography on the Common c.1877 Size:extra large Sunil GuptaAn itinerant portrait photographer at work on Clapham Common, c. 1877. The photographer is taking a portrait of a nanny and her charge. These were easy subjects as nannies were fond of taking home to their mistresses photographs of the babies entrusted to their care. The wheeled contraption next to the nanny is the photographer's portable darkroom used for developing the photograph on the spot. From a series of 37 photographs published in the book,