Blank greetings card with envelope featuring:

Helmut Gernsheim NPG x125362

© National Portrait Gallery, London

by Ida Kar

Gernsheim is noted as the author, with his wife, Alison Eames, of The History of Photography, published in 1955. During research he made several key finds, rediscovering the photographs of Lewis Carroll and identifying the oldest existing photograph. Born in Germany, he studied art history and photography. He fled to England in 1937 and served a wartime stint as photographer for an architectural survey at the Warburg Institute of Art in London, becoming a British citizen in 1946. He began collecting photographs in... more

Card size: 125mm x 175mm

Images are printed in their original proportions, within a white border.