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ID: 500040780
Page Link: http://vocab.getty.edu/page/ulan/500040780

 

Record Type: Person
Bool, John (English photographer, 1850-1933)

Note: It is not known whether John and Alfred Bool were related, all that is known is that they photographed together and specialized in picturesque views of the English countryside. John Bool in collaboration with Alfred Bool and Henry Dixon, who made carbon prints from the Bool's negatives, photographed threatened buildings for the Society for Photographing Relics of Old London. This society was established in 1875 and consisted of architects and antiquarians who wished to preserve a record of historic buildings facing demolition. John Bool, Alfred Bool and Henry Dixon photographed the Oxford Arms Inn near St. Paul's Cathedral in 1875.

Names:
Bool, John (preferred,V,index,Dutch-P,NA)
John Bool (V,display,Dutch,NA,U)
Bool, John James (V)

Nationalities:
British (modern) (preferred)
English

Roles:
artist (preferred)
photographer

Gender: male

Birth and Death Places:
Born:  Westminster (London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom) (neighborhood)
Died:  Westminster (London, Greater London, England, United Kingdom) (neighborhood)

Events:
active:   1870-1909

Related People or Corporate Bodies:
collaborated with ....  Bool, Alfred  during the 1870s
................................  (English photographer, 1844-1926) [500040779]
collaborated with ....  Dixon, Henry  during the 1870s
................................  (English photographer, 1820-1893) [500115247]
founder of ....  A.& J. Bool  
..................  (British photographic company, active 1860s - 1910s) [500491355]

List/Hierarchical Position:
 ....  Persons, Artists
 ........  Bool, John (I)

Biographies:
(English photographer, 1850-1933) ..... [VP Preferred]
(British photographer, act.1875-1878) ..... [BHA]
(English photographer; active London (England, United Kingdom), 1870s-1900s) ..... [CCA]
(British photographer, flourished 1875-1899) ..... [RKD]

Additional Names:

Sources and Contributors:
Bool, John ........ [BHA Preferred, CCA Preferred, RKD Preferred]
......................  RILA/BHA (1975-2000)
......................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 382490
Bool, John James ........ [JPGM Preferred, VP]
.................................  J. Paul Getty Museum Photographs Department e-mail from Miriam Katz, 17 December 2020
John Bool ........ [CCA, RKD, VP]
....................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
....................  Getty Vocabulary Program rules

Subject: ........ [BHA, CCA, RKD, VP]
....................  Canadian Centre for Architecture database
....................  Eastman House Database [online] (n.d.)
....................  Foote, Relics of old London: photographs of a changing Victorian city, History of Photography (1987)
....................  Golden Age of British Photography (1984)
....................  Haworth-Booth, Golden Age of British Photography (1984) 143
....................  Library Chronicle (1981)
....................  RILA/BHA (1975-2000)
....................  RKD Artists database (2000-) 382490
....................  Stamp, Changing Metropolis: Earliest Photographs of London (1984) 52
 
Note:
English .......... [CCA]
.......... Haworth-Booth, Golden Age of British Photography (1984)
.......... Library Chronicle (1981)
.......... Stamp, Changing Metropolis: Earliest Photographs of London (1984)
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