The National Science and Media Museum will open its much-anticipated permanent Sound and Vision galleries to the public on Thursday 10 July. This marks the culmination of a £6.8 million transformation of the museum, the new galleries span two floors of the museum, showcasing world-class collections of photography, film, television, animation, gaming and sound technologies in new and innovative ways. The museum review here …

The V&A Museum is seeking a Project Archivist and Project Cataloguer to work on and support the Royal Photographic Society (RPS) digitisation project. The RPS Project is a vital part of the V&A’s broader programme of cataloguing, digitisation, collections care and access. It aims to safeguard the collection and provide meaningful access to benefit and inspire current and future…

Amy Mayhew has been appointed Project Manager for the five-year digitisation project of the Royal Photographic Society (RPS) Collection at the V&A Museum. The job was advertised earlier this year as a five-year fixed-term…

The Stereoscopic Picturesque is an interdisciplinary study of nineteenth-century 3D photography and its relation to the picturesque tradition in art, literature, and tourism. The study focuses on the invention of the stereoscope, originally a laboratory device for demonstrating the nature of three-dimensional vision, and the simultaneous invention of photography, in order to show…

George Platt Lynes began his career photographing celebrities in the 1930s, and it’s those portraits along with his extravagant fashion work that he’s best remembered for today. However, George’s heart, his passion, and his greatest talent lay elsewhere, in his work with the male nude.

This work, sensuous and radically explicit for its time, has only recently begun being fully…

"Sleeping beauty"

When I am dead and in my grave
And all my bones are rotten.
When this you see remember me Lest I should be forgotten.”

This is the first posting on Art Blart on the phenomenon of postmortem photography for exhibitions on this subject are few and far between.

Any photograph is a “little death” which “refers to the concept of “la petite mort” or “the little death,” a French idiom and euphemism for the…

This conference-within-a-conference presents international scholarship on the history of stereoscopic photography and is part of the National Stereoscopic Association's 51st 3D-Con taking place at Minneapolis-St Paul from 3-11 August 2025. The conference is in person only.

The history papers comprise: 

Rephotographing Piazzi Smyth: Identifying People and places from his visit to Tenerife in 1856…

In celebration of International Women’s Day, 8 March 2026, and building on the success of our 2025 conference-a-thon, we invite scholars, practitioners, and enthusiasts to submit abstracts for participation in a free, online, global, 24-hour symposium dedicated to celebrating the contributions of women to the medium of photography from photography’s announcement in 1839 to now. This unique event aims to highlight the diverse and impactful work of women and female-identifying photographers,…