Alfred & John Bool

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

Life and work
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] and would go on to photograph 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
  • Old London: photographed by Henry Dixon and Alfred & John Bool for the Society for Photographing Relics of Old London, 1975 ISBN 0856701505

References
  1. "Photographers London - Museum of London". 24 July 2013. Archived from the original on 2013-07-24.
  2. "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 2015-06-26. Retrieved 2019-05-30.CS1 maint: archived copy as title (link)
  3. "Agenda". Phaidon.
  4. "Art and artists - Royal Academy of Arts". www.royalacademy.org.uk.
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