George Wills Priston b.

  • Artist (Photographer)
George Wills Priston was a professional photographer and chemist, whose business Priston and Small manufactured photographic chemicals and dealt in photographic goods between c. 1864 and 5 October 1867, when he and his partner, Thomas Stephen Small formally dissolved their company. From 1864 to 1866 he and Jabez William Small published Photographic News of the Month, considered to be Australia's first photographic magazine.
exhibited at
Melbourne Intercolonial Exhibition
Date
1866 - 1867
Place
Melbourne, Vic.
Description

George Wills Priston and his business partner Thomas Stephen Small presented an exhibit of photographic chemicals at this event, which received an honourable mention in the prizes awarded that year (The Argus, Thursday 14 February 1867, p. 1S).

Type
Exhibition