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Stickybacks in FranceThe French photos below appear to be Stickybacks - the uncut multiples clearly depict the same image, rather than the changing poses in a strip of photobooth portraits. The images have a plain background and an information strip shows the photographer's details and a job number. Sizes are not dissimilar to UK Stickybacks photos. The Stickybacks name does not appear, but clearly the concept travelled to France. We have not yet come across any individual stickyback photographers from the UK who took the concept directly to France. We would very much welcome any information from French collectors on the emergence and spread of the genre in France. In 1911, in a letter to the editor on the subject of photographers’ assistants in France, Godfrey Wilson, who had worked for some years in that country wrote: “I am very strongly convinced that the French professional portraitists may be divided into two distinct classes, the tip top men and the third rate, stickyback or postcard man. Good middle class workers seem to me to be very scarce indeed throughout France” ![]() Address: 43 Boulevard St Martin Paris, 26 Rue de Rivoli Paris, 5 Boulevard Ornano, 81 Faubourg du Temple, 11 Faubourg St Martin
Address: Marseille (Cannebiere 18).
Address: Rue Alsace 14. Town not currently known
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