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film, rather than laboriously piecing together panoramas from a series of separate glass plates. The popularity of his pictures convinced him to specialise in this class of work. Significant contemporaries of Scott were also using this instrument; Richard T. Maurice (1859-1909), H.H. Tilbrook (1884-1937), and Harry
Phillips (1873-1944).
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September 12, 1918, records "Robert Scott, photographer, resident of 594, 62nd Street, Oakland, Alameda County, CA.," as "Tall Height, Medium Build, Blue Eyes, and Brown Hair, 3 Fingers from left hand lost, physically disqualified." He separated from his wife in 1920 and in 1924 briefly returned
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photography movement that was particularly advanced in
Adelaide in these years due largely to its promotion by Adelaide-born art photographer John Kauffmann (1864-1942). That Vere Scott was regarded as an equal to Kauffmann is seen by their equal billing and high profile in the Christmas number of
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for ease of use and had a rotating lens and curved back and encompassed a view of between 112 and 142 degrees. Panoramic views of course had been produced in
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of 1904; a large format bellows camera that could be converted to make panoramas by mounting it on a clockwork turntable coupled to a spool of film that unrolled past a slit at the film plane, and was capable of 360Âș views with a resolution breathtaking even by current digital standards. Produced
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Australia, Scott was working as a photographer when he married in Adelaide in 1899. The source of his training in the medium is not recorded. In 1900 he was listed as a professional in Broken Hill but signed his images in the negative 'R. Vere Scottâ and sometimes used
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An advertisement on page six of the
Adelaide Register 4 Dec 1907 promised that the illustrations would be 'the finest ever published within the stateâ Scott and Kauffmann were the only two photographers profiled and they had equal billing. Scottâs image titles were On the Belair Road, On the
158:(1866-1912) popularised the format in Australia. Significant in Scott's case, Vaniman was in Adelaide in 1904. From 1903 to 1907 Vere Scott continued to be based at Port Pirie, from where he explored markets further afield. For example, he produced panoramic pictures of
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to Sydney where another brother James lived, then returned to San
Francisco in September 1924, after which no securely dated images from Australia in the 1920s have been located. Scott may have married again in the USA around 1928. He died in 1944.
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of 19 December 1907 declared that Vere Scott had âârecently imported the largest panoramic camera that had yet been brought to the
Commonwealth, and that it was designed to take pictures 24 x 9 inchesâ. That camera may have been the more cumbersome
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to yachting and boating magazines, and his pictures, examples of which he donated to the
California Historical Society in 1936, provide a valuable record of the landscape of the city. He was a member of the
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probably through correspondence and contribution of photos for exhibits, and was producing panoramic views well into the 1930s. His residence is listed as Boston and occupation "scenic photographer" on his
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Robert Vere Scott was born in Brisbane in 1877, son of a Scottish immigrant storekeeper father and an Australian mother, the seventh of their ten children.
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In 1916 Scott migrated with his wife and children to California where his brothers George, Henry and Alfred had already settled. He set up a studio at 340
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