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the United States. His book, A Manual of Photographic
Manipulation was first published in 1858 by John
Churchill in London, with a second edition published a
decade later. He announced his retirement from photog-
raphy in 1862, but returned to both practice and write
about photography six years later, continuing to lecture
and write intermittently until 1889.
John Hannavy
PRINGLE, ANDREW (b. 1850)
English photographer
To his contemporaries, Andrew Pringle was “a gentle-
man” and “usually polite and obliging.” One of three
brothers, Pringle was educated at Harrow School, then
Trinity College, Cambridge, before serving in the 8th
Hussars.
Pringle took up photography in 1874 and travelled in
France, Germany, Switzerland, Italy, Spain, and Africa.
He investigated all processes and, with Professor W
K Burton, published Processes of Pure Photography.
By 1886, he specialised in photomicrography and at a
dermatological congress, Pringle created a sensation by
illustrating a rare bacillus. He wrote textbooks on the
optical lantern, and on photomicrography, and contrib-
uted illustrations to Kleine’s Histology.
When he was President of West Kent Amateur So-
ciety, The Photographic News of 1889 asserted that
Pringle never took offence “until his good nature was
rudely strained by the incautious.” His procedures were
methodical and by noting every factor affecting devel-
opment, as well as “anything else that occurred to me,”
he identifi ed “the secure exposures, the doubtfuls and
the ‘instantaneously’-exposed plates, which were sure
to require more or less care.”
Pringle was a Fellow of the Royal Meteorological
Society and a former president of the Photographic
Convention.
Ron CallenderPRINTING AND CONTACT PRINTING
Shortly after William Henry Fox Talbot produced his
fi rst successful images with his Photogenic Drawing
process in 1834, the concept of printing was introduced
into the practice and language of photography. ThisPRICE, WILLIAM LAKE
Price, William Lake. Don Quixote in
His Study.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Gift
of A. Hyatt Mayor, 1969 (69.635.1)
Image © The Metropolitan Museum
of Art.