Information and discussion on all aspects of British photographic history
Time: February 26, 2011 to June 7, 2011
Location: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Street: 151 Third Street
City/Town: San Francisco, CA 94103
Website or Map: http://www.sfmoma.org/
Phone: 415.357.4000
Event Type: exhibition
Organized By: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
Latest Activity: Jan 15, 2011
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Organized in conjunction with Helios: Eadweard Muybridge in a Time of Change, this installation of the SFMOMA collection and Sack Photographic Trust examines the American West through the lens of 19th-century photography.
Highlights include mammoth-plate photographs of Yosemite Valley by Carleton Watkins, pictures of Yellowstone by Frank Jay Haynes, William Henry Jackson’s panoramic Pike's Peak from the Garden of the Gods, and early stereoviews of San Francisco.
Photo: Taber Studio, Alley in Chinatown, 1880s; albumen print; Collection of the Sack Photographic Trust
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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