May, Charles William (-1881)

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Adelaide-based colonial male photographer whose daguerreotypes of scenery were so good he won a guinea prize one year and got to judge the same competition a decade later.

photographer, was possibly connected with the May partner of Kopsch. They worked as daguerreotype photographers at King William Street, Adelaide in 1853-54. The artist called May who exhibited a view of Glenelg Pier (probably a photograph) with the South Australian Society of Arts in 1859 cetainly seems to have been Charles William. At the society's seventh exhibition in December 1863 C.W. May's photographs of colonial scenery were awarded a guinea prize for the 'best six photographic ...

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  • fl. 1853-ca. 1881

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