Background
Edward John Wall was born in 1860 in England, United Kingdom.
Edward John Wall was born in 1860 in England, United Kingdom.
He published a technical photographic journal in London in 1889, The Photographic Answers, and, beginning in 1896, he published Photographic News. Later he taught 3-color photography at the London Council School of Photo-Engraving. Active in the photographic industry, Wall emigrated to the United States in 1910 to work for the Fire-Proof Acetylcellulose Company in Rochester. Later he worked for Technicolor Motion Picture Company in Boston, and while in that city became assistant editor of American Photography and built up an important and influential photographic publishing house. In his earlier years the publisher translated into English J. M. Eder's Photographie mit Bromsilbergelatine, Fritz's Lithographie, E. Komg's Farbenphotographie and Mayer's Bromoldruck.