Alfred Bool & Henry Dixon 4

Dixon & Bool are best known for their series of photographs taken in the 1870s and 1880s for the Society For Photographing Relics of Old London, a fine series of early documentation of old buildings about to be destroyed.

Alfred Bool worked from a studio at 86 Warwick Street, Pimlico, London from 1867-1869 whilst his some-time partner, Henry Dixon (1820-1893), a specialist in the photography of animals, worked near London Zoo on Albany Street. In Gernsheim & Gernsheim, 'The History of Photography', London: Thames & Hudson, 1969, the Gernsheims state: A valuable documentation was undertaken by the Society for Photographing Relics of Old London, established in 1874 to record, for posterity, picturesque or historic buildings which had been condemned for destruction.