Steven F. Joseph

Steven Franklin Joseph (born 24 October 1955) is a collector and historian of photography, active in Belgium and France.

Life and career

Joseph was born in Salford, Lancashire, England, on 24 October 1955. He has degrees in modern languages (University of Oxford) and management studies (Ecole des affaires de Paris-ESCP Europe). Author of numerous articles and books on nineteenth-century photography in Belgium, he also researches the application of photography to book illustration and photomechanical printing processes. His current research topics include early advertising photography^[1] and the development of large format images on posters and broadsides up to 1914. He has helped to design and organize several exhibitions in his specialist fields. In 2001, the Rijksmuseum acquired his collection of 19th-century photographically illustrated books, amounting to some two thousand volumes.^[2] Steven F. Joseph is a Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society and corresponding member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Photographie.

Select bibliography

• Le Chevalier L.P.T. Dubois de Nehaut (1799–1872): sa vie et son œuvre (avec Tristan Schwilden), Bruxelles, Crédit Communal, 1987 (ISBN 2-87193-026-0)
• Edmond Fierlants (1819–1869): photographies d’art et d’architecture (avec Tristan Schwilden), Bruxelles, Crédit Communal, 1988 (ISBN 2-87193-060-0)
• De andere fotografie: de geschiedenis van de fotomechanische reproduktie in de negentiende eeuw (avec Adriaan Verburg), Vlissingen / Middelburg, ADZ, 1989 (ISBN 90-72838-03-3)
• A l’aube de la photographie en Belgique: Guillaume Claine (1811–1869) et son cercle (avec Tristan Schwilden), Bruxelles, Crédit Communal, 1991 (ISBN 2-87183-014-2)
• Directory of Photographers in Belgium 1839–1905 (avec Tristan Schwilden & Marie-Christine Claes), Anvers & Rotterdam, Museum voor Fotografie & C. De Vries-Brouwers, 1997 (ISBN 90-6174-837-2) (Prix Raymond Lécuyer 1997 du Musée français de la Photographie)
• Photographie et mutations urbaines à Bruxelles 1850–1880 / Photography and the transformation of Brussels 1850–1880 (avec Christian Spapens), Bruxelles, CIDEP – Centre d'Information, de Documentation et d'Etude du Patrimoine, 2008 (ISBN 978-2-930535-00-5)
• Belgian Photographic Literature of the 19th Century. A Bibliography and Census. L'édition photographique belge au 19^e siècle. Bibliographie et recensement, Leuven, Leuven University Press, 2015 (ISBN 978 94 6270 047 5)

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