The Warnerke camera with roller dark-slide
Toronto. Leon Warnerke was a UK based “Entrepreneur/Inventor Extraordinaire [and] Royal Photographic Society Progress Medallist”. Photographic Canadiana, issue 32-1, dated May/June 2006 carries the story of this UK immigrant and his dark underside.
The story is introduced by our late editor Bob Lansdale who writes, “Beginning on page four, we have two articles outlining the interesting biography of Leon Warnerke who arrived in London, England in 1870-71. He gained much public attention for his many photographic inventions and his leadership within the European photographic community.
“But it is only in recent years that the dark side of his character has been revealed – and that we reserve for our second feature on Mr. Warnerke beginning on page six. Ev Roseborough [late editor emeritus of the journal] has been working on this project for several years and brings it finally to fruition.”
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