Information and discussion on all aspects of British photographic history
Time: June 26, 2010 to August 30, 2010
Location: Herbert Art Gallery & Museum
Street: Jordan Well
City/Town: Coventry, CV1 5QP
Website or Map: http://www.theherbert.org
Phone: 024 7683 2386
Event Type: exhibition
Organized By: Herbert Art Gallery & Museum
Latest Activity: Jun 23, 2010
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Inland Voyage reveals for the first time the remarkable photographic archive of Coventry factory worker, Robert Longden. During the late 1940s and early 1950s he documented an intimate history of a working life now long gone.
The photographs record the narrow boat people he encountered on the waterways, including at Coventry's power station and at Sutton Stop canal junction near Hawkesbury. They catch forever the moment of transformation which saw canals change from being industrial thoroughfares to locations for leisure.
Longden's archive has been especially digitally restored and printed for this exhibition.
Photo: Life on the canals in the 1940s and 50s; Robert Longden
Victoria and Albert Museum's photography collection
National Science and Media Museum
RPS Journal 1853-2012 online and searchable
Photographic History Research Centre, Leicester
Birkbeck History and Theory of Photography Research Centre
William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonné
British Photography. The Hyman Collection
The Press Photo History Project Mapping the photo agencies and photographers of Fleet Street and the UK
The correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot
Historic England Archive
UAL Photography and Photography and the Archive Research Centre
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
Frederick Scott Archer
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