Vandamm and the Antarctic, Part I
One of the factors that brought success to the Florence Vandamm Studio in London and, later the Vandamm Studio in NYC, was her ability to keep track of negatives. This blog contains a prime early demonstration of that ability. Spoiler Alert—it gets a little bit surreal. Like many photo studios, she created pairs of photographs of military officers and their wives, before assignments overseas. In 1912, she m…