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Auction 46 22 Jul 2021
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Medals by Subject, Photography: Franco-British Exhibition, White City, London, silver medal, 1908, by Frank Bowcher for Vaughton, presented to George Davidson (1856-1930), Britannia and Marianne std. before Peace, rev. Victory stands before exhibition buildings, named in tablet, "George Davidson", 51mm. (BHM 3960; Eimer 1903b; BM Acq. 1978-82, p. 72, 4; Grundy 160), on edge: Birmingham Hallmark, in velvet-lined red leather case of issue, matt surface, virtually mint state
George Davidson was an early exponent of impressionistic photography who exhibited widely. He became the managing director of Kodak in the UK. (bringing him considerable wealth), and was a founder member of the "Brotherhood of the Linked Ring", a photographic society created to propose and defend that photography was an art as well as a science. He was an ardent social reformer however for his activities as Christian Socialist he was made to relinquish his directorship of Kodak, whose activities were misinterpreted as being anarchist.
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George Davidson was an early exponent of impressionistic photography who exhibited widely. He became the managing director of Kodak in the UK. (bringing him considerable wealth), and was a founder member of the "Brotherhood of the Linked Ring", a photographic society created to propose and defend that photography was an art as well as a science. He was an ardent social reformer however for his activities as Christian Socialist he was made to relinquish his directorship of Kodak, whose activities were misinterpreted as being anarchist.
(100-150 GBP)