Kelley Wilder's Blog (3)

'But it is the photographs that make the show,' writes Richard Hamblyn of the exhibition Endless Forms: Charles Darwin, natural sicence, and the visual arts now showing at the Fitzwilliam Museum, Cambridge. (TLS, July 17, 2009, 'A world under observation', pp.17-18). The section was curated by Elizabeth Edwards, who also contributed a chapter to the catalogue. You can listen to a podcast of Prof. Edwards, and other contributers, at the exhibition… Continue

Recently, Cornell decided to open up its public domain material fee-free for users. This includes many texts important to the early history of photography, which are now available from within the Internet Archive. The move follows similar initiatives as far back as 2006 by the… Continue

We are experimenting with making our websites join up for coherent searching. To do so, Stephen Brown has added a cover page to the photohistory sites at DeMontfort University so you can search all four websites at once, if you are so inclined. Suggestions are welcome. Many thanks, Kelley Wilder http://kmd.dmu.ac.uk/kmd_photohistory_page/ Continue