George Wills Priston b.

  • Artist (Photographer)
George Wills Priston was a professional photographer and chemist, whose business Priston and Small manufactured photographic chemicals and dealt in photographic goods between c. 1864 and 5 October 1867, when he and his partner, Thomas Stephen Small formally dissolved their company. From 1864 to 1866 he and Jabez William Small published Photographic News of the Month, considered to be Australia's first photographic magazine.

Citations

  • Davies, Alan & Stanbury, Peter (1985), 'The Mechanical Eye in Australia, Photography 1841-1900’, Oxford University Press, Melbourne, Vic.

Initial data sources

  • The Dictionary of Australian Artists: painters, sketchers, photographers and engravers to 1870