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Welcome to the British photographic history blog which was launched at the start of 2009. There are now nearly 4100 members, in addition to regular readers. These range from museum and gallery curators, photographic academics, students, collectors, dealers and representatives from the photographic press from around the world. The blog provides a forum for news of events and happenings within the British photographic history community. This can include lectures or meetings, exhibition news, jobs, reviews and general news affecting collections of photographic material or individuals within the field. While the focus is on Britain it may, on occasion, include material that is of wider interest from Europe, the United States, Africa and Asia.

A summary of the previous week's posts is usually emailed to signed up readers each Monday. 

Dr Michael Pritchard

PS. Thanks to George Eastman House (now George Eastman Museum) and History Today magazine blogs for recommending British Photographic History as one of their own favourite blogs. The Daily Telegraph made BPH one of its photography websites of the week

Preserved in Print is an exhibition of photography by E Chambré and Margaret Hardman, both of whom were accomplished photographers in their own right, alongside artefects from the Hardman studio. The studio premises is now preserved by the National Trust with the the negatives and photographs housed by Liverpool Record Office. There is an active programme of cataloguing, conservation and digitisation taking place.

The exhibition has been extended until 19 October…

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Belfast Exposed, in collaboration with the Centre for British Photography, will unveil two shows this month featuring artists Jo Spence and Arpita Shah. Jo Spence: A Woman's Place?, an exhibition spotlighting the ground-breaking phototherapy work of the celebrated British photographer and feminist Jo Spence (1934–1992), provides an intimate and powerful look at Spence’s exploration of the roles and experiences of women within society.

Jo Spence was not just a photographer but…

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Shining Lights is the first critical anthology to bring together the ground-breaking work of Black women photographers active in the UK during the 1980s and 1990s, providing a richly illustrated overview of a significant and overlooked chapter of photographic history. Seen through the lens of Britain’s socio-political and cultural contexts, the publication draws on both lived experience and historical investigation to explore the communities, experiments, collaborations, and…
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12962852268?profile=RESIZE_400x Bradford's National Science and Media Museum has unveiled its plans for a phased reopening and revealed renders of some of its new spaces. The museum has been closed since June 2023.  First to open in January 2025 will be reconfigured foyer (shown above) with a new visitor welcome desk, seating and redesigned shop. A new lift - which was part of the cause of the extended…

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Yolande, wife of Lucien Clergue, dies at 95


Yolande Clergue passed away on 18 September at the age of 95. Alongside photographer Lucien Clergue, her husband of fifty years, she helped establish the Arles Festival in the 1970s when I took this photo of her with Lee Miller and Roland Penrose. 
 
But it was in 1983 that she alone created the wonderful foundation dedicated to the painter Vincent Van Gogh.
 
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