The Photogram

He was born in Bradford, where by 1884 he was working with Percy Lund & Co., and for them in 1890 launched and edited The Practical Photographer, which he left when together the couple started The Photogram, published in London by Dawbarn and Ward, which continued until 1920.

[1] The couple's punctilious insistence on the term 'photogram' in this title and many of their others was a result of their conviction that the etymology of 'photography' demanded that the word 'photograph' was the verb, and that the product of the act of photography was the photogram, just as one 'telegraphs' a 'telegram'.

The monthly magazine catered to the advanced amateur and professional and promoted Pictorialism, which was emerging in the 1890s, and art photography, with contributions from by Francis Meadow Sutcliffe, member of The Linked Ring, among other significant authors.

65–72) and a brief biography of Scottish-born J. Traill Taylor FRPS, founder of the Edinburgh Photographic Society and editor of the British Journal of Photography who was to die of dysentery in Florida later that year in November (pp. 57–58).

[3] Due to Ward’s and Barnes' own interest in the growing industry of photomechanical reproduction, and increasingly, that of a cohort of their readers, they added a small supplement on the technology.