Charles Edwards

  • Artist (Photographer)
A professional photographer and phrenologist who worked in Sydney and offered classes in photography and phrenology, (starting at £1 a class). Edwards eventual career preference was for photography, apparently having found taking heads more profitable than reading them.

Citations

  • Davies, Alan and Stanbury, Peter (1985), 'The Mechanical Eye in Australia: Photography 1841-1900’, Melbourne, Vic.

  • Information sourced from Lennon, J.

Initial data sources

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