Alfred & John Bool

Alfred and John Bool were a pair of British brothers who photographed 19th century London.^[1]

Alfred Henry Bool (1844-1926) and John James Bool (1850-1933) were both born in London. They opened a photo studio together in Pimlico in the 1860s, and John Bool worked there until 1918.^[2]

In 1875 the brothers were hired by Alfred Marks, the director of the Society for Photographing Relics of Old London,^[3] and would go on to photograph historic buildings including the Oxford Arms Inn, Lincoln's Inn, the Smithfield area, Temple Bar, Gray's Inn, St. Bartholomew's and the Cloth Fair.^[4] The album prints were made by the brothers in the company of Henry Dixon.^[2]

In 1977, works by Alfred & John Bool and Henry Dixon were shown at the documenta 6 art exhibition in Kassel, Germany.

• Old London: photographed by Henry Dixon and Alfred & John Bool for the Society for Photographing Relics of Old London, 1975 ISBN 0856701505