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From Fossils to Photography

August 13, 2009 to November 30, 2009 – Royal Society A new exhibition on Victorian science in which photography features very strongly. An online version of the exhibition is also available here: http://royalsociety.org/page.asp?id=8624 and some of t... Organized by Royal Society | Type: exhibition

First Shots: Early War Photography 1848-1860

September 11, 2009 to January 10, 2010 – White Space Gallery, National Army Museum The National Army Museum is devoting its new White Space Gallery to an exhibition of the work of four pioneering war photographers: Felice Beato, Roger Fenton, James Robertson and Josh McCosh. War ... Organized by National Army Museum | Type: exhibition

‘...in the footsteps of Henry Taunt'

October 24, 2009 to November 28, 2009 – Museum of Oxford A fascinating exhibition of traditional photographs by local Victorian photographer Henry Taunt, complemented by contemporary digital images. Inspired by Henry Taunt's beautiful images, digital ph... Organized by Vanessa Lea | Type: exhibition

Points of View: Capturing the 19th Century in Photographs

October 30, 2009 to March 7, 2010 – British Library From the first tentative ‘drawings of shadows’ produced in the mid-1830s to its universal acceptance as a leisure pursuit, photography was swept along by a tide of entrepreneurial activity througho... Organized by British Library | Type: exhibition

The Big Conversation : Martin Parr and Grayson Perry

November 25, 2009 from 5pm to 7pm – London College of Communication The first of the Photography and the Archive Research Centre/LCC 'Big Conversations'. Martin Parr and Grayson Perry in conversation in the Main Lecture Theatre at the London College of Communicatio... Organized by Val Williams | Type: in, conversation

Professor Heard's Peerless Victorian Magic Lantern Show

November 29, 2009 all day – British Library A brilliant introduction to an entertainment massively popular before the advent of recorded sound and moving image. Organized by British Library | Type: event
Professor Heard's Peerless Victorian Magic Lantern Show

November 29, 2009 from 2:30pm to 4pm – British Library A brilliant introduction to an entertainment - the magic lantern - massively popular before the advent of recorded sound and moving image. Organized by British Library | Type: lecture

‘I have captured a shadow’: Fox Talbot and the dawn of photography

December 7, 2009 from 6:30pm to 8pm – British Library Frustrated with his inability to draw while in Italy, William Henry Fox Talbot conceived of the art of photography in 1833. He achieved his first successes at his Wiltshire home of Lacock Abbey by ... Organized by British Library | Type: lecture

Photographic History without Photographs

December 9, 2009 from 2am to 4:30pm – General Register House Documents, legal documents, trade catalogues and printed ephemera can present a different history of photography. In this lecture Michael Pritchard shows examples of these and uses them to illustra... Organized by Angels Arribas / email: aarribas@photoconservation.co.uk | Type: lecture