Description
Gibson & Sons Photographers (or the Gibson ‘Dynasty’ as they came to be known) played a key role in documenting the social history of West Cornwall and the Isles of Scilly during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Penlee House Gallery & Museum, Penzance, has been fortunate to acquire a photographic archive consisting of over 1600 prints and glass plates from Gibson & Sons, dating from the 1860s to the 1920s.
This book has been produced to showcase a small selection of this remarkable collection, which documents the social history of Cornwall and celebrates the innovative work of an important family of pioneering photographers.
Author: John Edwards
