Information and discussion on all aspects of British photographic history
Time: October 29, 2010 to November 27, 2010
Location: Hereford
City/Town: Herefordshire
Website or Map: http://www.photofest.org/inde…
Phone: 01432 351964
Event Type: festival
Organized By: Hereford Photo Festival
Latest Activity: Jun 11, 2010
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The longest standing festival of photography in England and the only one in a rural location. It presents and promotes documentary-based photography through exhibitions, seminars, workshops and community arts development.
By combining exhibitions and commissions from contemporary photographers, workshops, innovative artist-led socially engaged projects and opportunities for debate on current issues, the festival aims to promote photography which comments on and raises questions about cultural and social issues, particularly as they affect rural communities.
Entry to all exhibitions is free. Programme details can be found here.
Frequent trains from London Paddington take approx. three hours to reach Hereford. Hereford is 60 miles from Birmingham and Bristol, close to the English-Welsh border.
Conference
This year’s conference will examine the raison d’etre of photography festivals and take place over the opening weekend of 29th – 31st October.
Photography and Hereford – A Short History
Hereford has a long history of photography, starting with the founding of the Herefordshire Photographic Society in 1885 by Alfred Watkins - the inventor of the first light meter. They mounted two significant international exhibitions including an Anglo American Salon of Photography in 1943 and a unique exhibition of Anglo-Russian photographs in 1944.
The Hereford Photography Festival was started by local photographer Dave West and one-time Rolling Stone photographer Al Vandenberg who both settled in Hereford in the 1980s.
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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