B. George Fairman

  • Artist (Photographer)
B. George Fairman, who opened a studio in Launceston in the late 1860s, appears to have been a society photographer, since his stock-in-trade was the carte-de-visite portrait photograph.

Citations

  • Randell, J.O. (1985), 'McIvor’, Burwood, Vic.

  • Long, C., 'Tasmania – the first photographs’, Manuscript.

  • (1863), McIvor News, July.

Initial data sources

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