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Friday, February 5, 2010

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 throughout… Organized by British Library | Type: exhibition
9th Century Darkroom - 1001 Inventions: Discover the Muslim Heritage in Our World

January 21, 2010 to April 25, 2010 – The Science Museum The Science Museum today announced that it will host a new exhibition, 1001 Inventions: Discover the Muslim Heritage in Our World, which traces the forgotten story of a thousand years of science from… Organized by Science Museum/Jameel Foundation | Type: exhibition
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage

February 2, 2010 to May 9, 2010 – The Howard Gilman Gallery, Metropolitan Museum Playing with Pictures is the first exhibition to comprehensively examine the little-known phenomenon that long before the embrace of collage techniques by avant-garde artists of the early 20th centur… Organized by The Art Institute of Chicago & Metropolitan Museum | Type: exhibition
Gerti Deutsch - Between Vienna and London

February 2, 2010 to April 23, 2010 – Austrian Cultural Forum Gerti Deutsch was one of the first female photojournalists of the 1930s and 40s. Leaving Vienna for London in 1938 she freelanced for Picture Post magazine, working alongside fellow émigré Kurt Hutto… Organized by Sarah McDonald | Type: exhibition
Classic Photo at the Science Museum 3rd - 7th Feb 2010

February 3, 2010 at 3pm to February 7, 2010 at 6pm – Science Museum, London SW7 As part of the watercolour and works on paper fair at the science museum theer will be a section with 6 19th/20th century dealers selling works across all fields of photographic history. Contact pier… Organized by Watercolour and works on papaer fair | Type: photographic, fair, -, images, for, sale