ArthurClennettJunior

A Poem written by 'Heroism & Heartbreak' Poet in Residence Kirsten Luckins.
Footnotes
Ernest Clennett was listed on various censuses as a photographer, magician and musician. Two of his daughters were listed as music teachers.
Disdéri was a French photographer who patented a way of making eight calling cards on one sheet of paper using a camera with four lenses.
Local and national papers sometimes paid for amateur snaps taken by servicemen on the newly-invented portable Kodak camera.
The famous image of heroism in Gallipoli was in fact staged by the photographer Ernest Brooks.
One of the first live-action reportage photographs ever taken was of the arrest of Gavrilo Princip, the Black Hand member who killed Archduke Franz Ferdinand.
Autochrome was a colour photography process first marketed by the Lumiere brothers in 1907. I have imagined it getting to Hartlepool a little later than Paris!
Arthur Clennett Junior died aged 17, before he could take over the family photography business.