Information and discussion on all aspects of British photographic history
Time: September 7, 2010 to January 2, 2011
Location: Harry Ransom Center
Street: 21st and Guadalupe Streets
City/Town: Austin, Texas 78712
Website or Map: http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/
Phone: USA (Texas) : 512-471-8944
Event Type: exhibition
Organized By: Harry Ransom Center and the Gernsheim Collection
Latest Activity: Aug 9, 2010
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UPDATE: David Coleman, the Ransom Center's Curator of Photography, leads a free gallery tour of Discovering the Language of Photography: The Gernsheim Collection, on Thursday September 16th and Tuesday, December 7, at 7 p.m. at the Ransom Center.
As reported in the BPH earlier this year, details of this exhibition is now available.
This exhibition is made up of two complementary and interweaving narratives—the history of photography as told through the collection's imagery, and the history of the collection's formation and methodology. The Gernsheims assembled a peerless collection, most predominantly in the area of nineteenth-century British photography, and many highlights will be on display alongside works by unknown or lesser-known artists who used various means to improve or to exploit the relatively new invention of photography.
The exhibition will highlight key moments in the history of photography, important technological and ideological shifts in the act of picture making, and narratives that served the Gernsheims as key points of collecting.
This exhibition coincides and complements the forthcoming 'Shaping the History of Photography' symposium - please refer to blog listing and 'Events' section for further info.
Photo: Francis Frith, The Pyramids of El-Geezeh, From the South-West, 1859 Albumen print. 37.7 x 48.8 cm.
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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