Famous Photographer #7: Francis Frith

Francis Frith worked as a grocer before becoming a photographer. He opened the Frith & Hayward photography studio in Liverpool. When Frith went to Egypt, he photographed the entire trip. He used three different camera: two large format cameras and a stereoscopic camera. A major photographic publisher published Fenton's pictures the following year and the firm Thomas Agnew and Sons offered the larger prints. After a couple more trips, two to Egypt and one to Syria, Frith opened up his own firm near Surrey. His firm published his own images as well as the work of other photographers. Frith and Company stopped operating in 1971.