Category:Salvatore Lorenzo Cassar

Salvatore Lorenzo Cassar 

Maltese photographer (1855-1928)
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Date of birth	December 1855 Bormla
Date of death	1928 Malta
Place of burial	Addolorata Cemetery (Div. Punent X-B-30)
Country of citizenship	Crown Colony of Malta
Occupation	photographer
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Salvatore Lorenzo Cassar (1855-1928), Maltese photographer.

Cassar was born in December 1855 in Vittoriosa. He learned photography in Tripoli, and upon return to Malta opened a studio in No. 1, Strada Carri, Valletta, by the side of the Auberge de Provence. Then he opened two further studios in Strada San Giovanni, opposite St John’s. He was famous for having adopted “the most modern systems and processes” as well as for flashlight photography. By 1900, thanks to technological development, the camera had so evolved he could boast of taking “instantaneous” photos. By 1927, his adverts state that he was the Malta agent for Kodak. He is described in Kevin Casha’s Photography in Malta (2016) as “perhaps the most artistic of the early crop of Malta-born photographers”.

• Nostalgias of Malta : images by S.L. Cassar from the 1890s to the 1930s by Giovanni Bonello ( Book )
• ‘Cassar Tar-ritratti’