Background
John Charles Burrow was born in 1850 in Cornwall, United Kingdom.
(Treating the practice of history not as an isolated pursu...)
Treating the practice of history not as an isolated pursuit but as an aspect of human society and an essential part of the culture of the West, John Burrow magnificently brings to life and explains the distinctive qualities found in the work of historians from the ancient Egyptians and Greeks to the present. With a light step and graceful narrative, he gathers together over 2,500 years of the moments and decisions that have helped create Western identity.
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John Charles Burrow was born in 1850 in Cornwall, United Kingdom.
During the early 1890s Burrow was commissioned by the owners of four of Cornwall's deepest mines, Dolcoath, East Pool, Cook's Kitchen and Blue Hills, to capture life underground. One of Burrow's most famous pictures was of the wrecked ship Escurial at Hayle, with doomed sailors clinging to the rigging of the sinking vessel while the lifeboat rested helplessly in the soft sand in the foreground.
Burrow experimented with various sizes of camera, settling on a half-plate Kinnear with a Zeiss. He used exposures of 2 to 4 seconds. Burrow's photographs were shown at the annual exhibition of the Photographic Society of Great Britain, where he received a medal for his work and much acclaim in the press. He was photographer to HRH, the Prince of Wales.
(Treating the practice of history not as an isolated pursu...)
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Andrew Lanyon: "His most important work, however, was his underground photography, carried out in the early 1890s in several Cornish tin and copper mines. This made him the British pioneer in underground photography."