Philson & Co.

PHILSON & Co., Photographers, Jamaica Avenue, 25, Jamaica Street, Glasgow.

    This high-class and leading studio was opened five years ago by Mr. Philson, and now is one of the prominent concerns in this line in the City. Much of the very marked appreciation and success which have been won in so comparatively short a period by Mr. Philson is no doubt due to his admirable practical knowledge of a difficult art, no less than to the artistic insight with which he is happily gifted.

    For fourteen years he acted as assistant and chief operator in the studios of the Messrs. Turnbull, and gained in that position a complete knowledge of the possibilities of modern photography. All kinds of work are carried on by him, and he has obtained a flattering repute for his mastery of the secrets of the new black and white process, by which the most artistic pictures yet obtained are produced. Enlargements can be made under this process up to any size. Mr. Philson is also justly celebrated for the fine work he turns out in highly-finished miniatures, in cartes and cabinets, and, indeed, in all descriptions of photographic portraiture. The photographing of children is a special feature of his more general work.

    The premises are very suitable for the business, consisting of nine separate apartments, and provide ample space for waiting and dressing rooms. The studio is splendidly fitted up with all the appurtenances of the craft, and on its walls is hung a splendid selection of the productions of the house. Either a north-east or south-east light can be used, according to the state of the sky. It is very evident that, great as has been the success of this concern, still greater is in store for it, on account of the rare combination of artistic and practical qualifications which its popular owner has placed at the service of the public.

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