Waardevolle foto dokumentering van die Paarl deur die fotograwe van die tydperk 1871-1960, Antenie Carstens, Natal Technikon, 1988. nder construction
James Gribble was one of Paarl's most prominent photographers. His father, also a photographer, emigrated to South Africa from Cornwall ... more
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James F Goch was one of Paarl's first photographers. He lived in Wellington and in January 1880 placed an advertisement in the local newspaper to say that he would be in Paarl for twee weeks to take portraits. Then two years later, he placed an advertisement in the Afrikaanse Patriot to announce that he had opened a studio - De Zuid Afrikaansche Studio en Photografische Kunst Gallery - on Market Square. In 1888 he left Paarl for the Witwatersrand.
James Gribble opened his first studio in 1882 and placed an advertisement in the Paarl District Advertiser on the 7 January 1888 to announce that he had taken over James Goch's business and had moved his studio to Market Square.
GA Decker also had a studio on Market Square. He employed a number of photographers such as CT Myers and JC Hubrich.
Other photographers included: R Nissan, Cumberland Studio, c 1884; Johann Friedrich Meissner, c 1881 and his son Friedrich Wilhelm Meissner; M Glassberg, first worked for Decker then had his own studion, c 1892; JK Bruton took over the Glassberg studio in 1902; JS Basson had a studio on Market Square in the early 1900s; KA Stephan took over the Basson studio in 1914. In October 1914 Gribble advertised that he had taken over the Basson studio. In August 1915 J Watson advertised that he owned the Basson studio. JJ Ravestein had the Rembrandt Studio in Lady Grey Street, c. 1906; Geo Bell's studio in Main Street was still operative in 1915. The Bell studio was later taken over by Henri Kruger, who still owned it in 1945.