Figure 1.--Here we see Edward at about 8 yeras old in 1906. He wears a knee oants sailor suit. Unlike the ciontinental countries, by about this time, Brirish boys stopped wearing sailor suits. This was about the age he began taking photographs. |
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Edward Hardman was born in Foxrock, Dublin (1898). He was the third child and only son of a keen amateur photographer -- Edward Hardman. Hardman described his father as 'a land agent for various estate owners and landlords in County Dublin'. He also had family connections with the British Raj. Hardman insisted thst "Two ... kinsmen (one on my fathers side, and one on my mothers) have held the office of Viceroy of India." We note a photograph of Edeard at age 8 wearing a saolor suit (1906). Edward took his first photographs when he was 9 years old. He allowed his son to use his father's quarter-plate mahogany and brass stand camera. Edward would process the glass plate negatives in the wine cellar and then make contact prints in the apple loft. By the age of fourteen he had won several photographic competitions in magazines, including Amateur Photographer and Photographer and Focus. Later in life he would recall dreans of fabulous landscapes.
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