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​Our Gamlingay store is closed, as of 6th July 2016.  We would like to thank our customers at Gamlingay over the last 27 years. You will continue to receive the same high standards of service and advice at our Harpenden store, where we have relocated all Gamlingay accounts to.  If you have any concerns please contact us on our freephone number 0800 7836316, or visit us at our Harpenden head office.John Henry Blomfield was a photographer who embraced every new innovation in photography, pioneering new photographic formats and photographic novelties such as electric lights and Roentgen's X-ray John Blomfield's studio had been one of the first studios in Sussex to offer the recently introduced "Cabinet Portrait". Portrait, a larger format for portrait photography, had first been introduced by the London photographer Frederick Richard Window in 1866. F. R. Window believed the larger dimensions of the 'cabinet print'  would enable the professional photographer to demonstrate

his technical and artistic skill and produce portraits of a higher quality than the small carte-de-visite would allow. format was a photographic print measuring 4 inches by 5 inches (approximately 10.2 cm x 14.1 cm) mounted on a sturdy card inches by 6 1/2(roughly 11cm x 17cm). As soon as John Henry Blomfield and his brother William Knibb Blomfield took over the photographic studio at Trinity House, 44 Robertson Street, Hastings in 1867, they offered "The New Cabinet Portraits" at 30 shillings per dozen. was a great innovator, ensuring that all the latest formats of photograph and all the new photographic techniques were available to hisIn addition to the established formats of carte-de-visite and the cabinet card, Blomfield offered a range of portrait sizes including the Boudoir (8 1/2 inches x 5 1/4 inches), the Victoria (3 1/4 x 5 inches), the Imperial (7 inches x 10 inches), the inches x 4 inches), the Panel Print (8

inches x 4 inches) and the Panel Card (13 inches x 7In 1883, J. H. Blomfield was one of the first studios in Sussex to produce "Midget Cartes", small portrait photographs measuring 3 inches by 1 5/8These "new size" midget cartes sold for 4s 6d a dozen. "midget carte" portrait of a young woman produced at John Henry Blomfield's photographic studio at 44 Robertson Street, Hastings (c1888). Midget Carte, was a tiny photographic portrait mounted on a small card measuring 3 inches in height. John Henry Blomfield also produced an even smaller "midget" photograph, which was just over two inches high [SEE LEFT]. Around 1886, John Blomfield became the second Hastings photographer to(The first studio in Hastings to employ electricity appears to have been the studio of Boning & Small ofRobert Boning and Charles James Small made a public announcement that they were "now using the Electric Light in their new studio, opposite the Pier", in July 1884.)

electric lighting not so much to dramatically improve the quality of his photographs, but to extend his business hours and to enable his customers to have their portraits taken in the evening. Wednesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, Blomfield's Electric Light Studio was open in the evening from 8 pm to 10 pm for the convenience of those customers who were otherwise "engaged " during the day and for others who wanted to be photographed in "Evening Dress" andBlomfield mentions in his publicity for the Electric Light Studio that the electric lamps could also be used to create "novel effects in Light and Shade." An advertisement for Blomfield's Electric Light Studio, published in 1890, informed the public that evening photographs were "taken by powerful Electric Arc Lamps, but the light is so diffused that the sitter feels no unpleasant glare". John Blomfield regularly introduced novelty items, such as Autogram Portraits and Roentgen

Autogram Portraits were small oval photographic portraits with adhesive backs, which could be attached to personal stationery, books, Christmas cards, wedding invitations, business cards and so on. Autogram Portraits were supplied in large numbers, costing five shillings for fifty, 7s 6d for one hundred and 42 shillings for one Another rather surprising novelty on offer at Blomfield's studio in the late 1890s was the Roentgen X-rayWilhelm Conrad Roentgen (1845-1923) had discovered the phenomena of X-rays and produced experimental radiographs in 1895. Roentgen had made X-ray photographs of his wife's hand and published the pictures of the skeletal hand wearing a wedding ring. Blomfield produced similar X-ray photographs for his customers. cabinet portrait of a married couple photographed by John Henry Blomfield of Trinity House, 44 Robertson Street, Hastings (c1890). card, a larger format for portrait photography, was introduced by the