Gallipoli Campaign--Sinclair, James

Oblong 8vo (120 x 200mm.,), 62 platinum prints (average 70 x 95mm., or the reverse) printed by James Alfred Sinclair after an unknown photographer (T.H.W.?), most images titled or annotated in pencil, contemporary black morocco by Sinclair (gilt stamp on inner pastedown), upper cover titled in gilt and with the owner's initials T.H.W., gilt edges, neatly rebacked

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These photographs were taken during the Gallipoli campaign and show French and British ships in the Aegean Sea, views of the town and harbour of Moudros on the Greek island of Lemnos, the Australian camp at Moudros, street scenes, military encampments, and views in Salonika.

James Alfred Sinclair, F.R.P.S. (d. 1940), was a highly distinguished person in the history of British photography. He owned and ran the famous photographic shop at no. 3 Whitehall, on the corner of Trafalgar Square and from 1910 his partnership with A.S. Newman resulted in the design and sale of some of the very best-known British cameras. These included those used for the film Man of Aran (Robert Flaherty, 1934), and the cameras used on Polar expeditions by Frank Hurley and on the 1922 Mallory Everest expedition.