Frank Meadow Sutcliffe

Sutcliffe was a Yorkshire photographer of the late 1800's, based in Whitby, a coastal town. There he photographed the harbour, the villiages and the people.

A few of his images are often included in most historical collections and books. His environmental group portraits do look a little staged but given the equipment of the time this is hardly surprising. His sense of composition and pose is superb and a number of his images are absolutely excellent.

Not only is he good - his images are available inexpensively - really inexpensively - check them out. See if you can pick up a Stieglitz for 100X the price, you'll be lucky.