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Featured Events
All Events (22)
July 6Monday
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Abelardo Morell - Through the Camera's Eye
July 6, 2009 to December 13, 2009 – Fox Talbot Museum Organized by Roger Watson | Type: exhibition
August 13Thursday
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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
September 11Friday
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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
October 24Saturday
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‘...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
October 30Friday
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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
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A Village Lost and Found: Into an Extraordinary Stereoscopic World
November 11, 2009 from 6:30pm to 8pm – British Library Photography collector and world renowned musician Brian May and photo historian Elena Vidal introduce the stunning 3D world of 19th century stereographs through the world of Victorian photographer ... Organized by British Library | Type: lecture
November 18Wednesday
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The Nine Lives of William Crookes
November 18, 2009 from 6:30pm to 8:30pm – Royal Society Library Chemist, photographer, editor, public health campaigner, business man, electrician, gold miner, glassworker and occultist: how did Sir William Crookes combine these, and other, "lives" to forge a s... Organized by Royal Society | Type: lecture
November 20Friday
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Late at The Library: Victorian Values
November 20, 2009 from 6pm to 7pm – British Library A photography themed, and burlesque flavoured night of performances, sideshows, music and slightly twisted Victoriana. Organized by British Library | Type: event
November 25Wednesday
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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
November 29Sunday
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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
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Quick Resources
Victoria and Albert Museum's photography collection
De Montfort University. MA course Photographic History and Practice
UAL Photography and Photography and the Archive Research Centre
www.rps.org/group/Historical Royal Photographic Society's Historical Group
www.londonstereo.com London Stereoscopic Company / T. R. Williams
www.earlyphotography.co.uk British camera makers and companies
Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock.
National Portrait Gallery, London
http://www.freewebs.com/jb3d/>
Alfred Seaman and the Photographic Convention
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