PHRC is pleased to announce the second season of its Research Seminars in Photographic Cultures and Heritage, a free, online series of talks and discussions exploring photography’s intersections with politics, technology, and cultural production.

The series investigates the rich and evolving field of photographic cultures and heritage, bringing together researchers, practitioners,…

Volume 10 of the biographical series «Stories of Photographers» which was started in 2018, tells the story of an amateur photographer (all the previous volumes spoke of professionals). The works of Jean François Charles André Flachéron, known as Frédéric, are well-known, universally recognized…

Michael Hoppen Gallery has announced that the Bodleian Library has acquired what it described as 'one of the most important albums of 20th century photography to come to light in recent years' - a previously unknown Lee Miller and Cecil Beaton album which Michael Hoppen Gallery exhibited last year. Compiled by Roland Haupt, an assistant to both photographers, it contain some of the first prints of Miller's best known photographs and other prints that…

By/For: Photography & Democracy is a collaborative partnership between three photographic historians, Dr. Tom Allbeson, Dr. Colleen O’Reilly, and Helen Trompeteler. Our second season of events begins on Friday 6 February. Please join us online with Anne Cross and Matthew Fox-Amato for their lecture, ‘To Show or Not to Show: Ethics, Censorship, and the Case of the Scourged Back’.

With a year of thought-provoking conversations on photography and democracy, upcoming lectures include…

Late spring will see two new heritage plaques being unveiled. One will be for Julia Margaret Cameron, and the second will be a new plaque for Christina Broom. The dates and locations - both in London - and how people might attend will be announced here later. 

I recently came across a CDV album of portraits and topographical views. I bought it partly because I recognised one view to be of Hexham. After "my" conservator had removed the CDVs for cleaning, I was extremely pleased to learn that this view and 10 others carried an early backstamp of J. P. Gibson, Hexham. Some also carried a printed paper label, presumably also created by Gibson. I am sure that many members here are familiar with his name. His family had a chemist shop at Hexham Market…

On this day in 1926 John Logie Baird gave the first public demonstration of television from premises in London's Frith Street. The building which is now the renowned Bar Italia is already marked with a blue heritage plaque. One hundred years to the day it has been joined with a World Original Site plaque. A ceremony today marked the unveiling by Iain Logie Baird, formerly television curator at the National Media Museum, and John's grandson. 

The BBC with a particular interest in the…

The seminar is organised by Museum of Cinema - Tomàs Mallol Collection (Girona); Department of History and Art History of the University of Girona (UdG); Research Group on the Origins of Cinema (GROC); and the Research Project of the Ministry of Science, Innovation and Universities entitled: 'The impact of electricity on turn-of-the-century cinema and photography: from…