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Sunday, March 7, 2010

Points of View: Capturing the 19th Century in Photographs

October 30, 2009 to March 7, 2010 – British Library From the first tentative ‘drawings of shadows’ produced in the mid-1830s to its universal acceptance as a leisure pursuit, photography was swept along by a tide of entrepreneurial activity throughout… Organized by British Library | Type: exhibition
9th Century Darkroom - 1001 Inventions: Discover the Muslim Heritage in Our World

January 21, 2010 to April 25, 2010 – The Science Museum The Science Museum today announced that it will host a new exhibition, 1001 Inventions: Discover the Muslim Heritage in Our World, which traces the forgotten story of a thousand years of science from… Organized by Science Museum/Jameel Foundation | Type: exhibition
Playing with Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage

February 2, 2010 to May 9, 2010 – The Howard Gilman Gallery, Metropolitan Museum Playing with Pictures is the first exhibition to comprehensively examine the little-known phenomenon that long before the embrace of collage techniques by avant-garde artists of the early 20th centur… Organized by The Art Institute of Chicago & Metropolitan Museum | Type: exhibition
Gerti Deutsch - Between Vienna and London

February 2, 2010 to April 23, 2010 – Austrian Cultural Forum Gerti Deutsch was one of the first female photojournalists of the 1930s and 40s. Leaving Vienna for London in 1938 she freelanced for Picture Post magazine, working alongside fellow émigré Kurt Hutto… Organized by Sarah McDonald | Type: exhibition
China through the lens of John Thomson 1868 - 1872

February 9, 2010 to June 6, 2010 – Merseyside Maritime Museum Merseyside Maritime Museum is the first UK venue to show this extensive exhibition of almost 150 photographs by the legendary Scottish photographer and travel writer John Thomson (1837-1921). The ph… Organized by Wellcome Library/Merseyside Maritime Museum | Type: exhibition
Eloge du négatif. Les débuts de la photographie sur papier en Italie, 1846-1862. 2010 February 18 - May 2

February 18, 2010 at 10am to May 2, 2010 at 6pm – Petit Palais - Paris - France Le Petit Palais, musée des Beaux Arts de la Ville de Paris presents An exhibition by l’Atelier de Restauration et de Conservation des Photographies de la Ville de Paris, la Fratelli Alinari, Fondazi… Organized by ARCP (Paris) | Type: exhibition
Victorian Studio Photographers

February 23, 2010 to March 7, 2010 – Hastings Museum & Art Gallery A look at some of the many studios which sprang up in Hastings and St Leonards in the second half of the 19th century to meet the demand for new studio portraiture Organized by Hastings Museum & Art Gallery | Type: exhibition
Relics of old London: Photography and the spirit of the city

February 27, 2010 to June 22, 2010 – Architecture Space, adjacent to the Royal Academy Restaurant, Burlington House Prompted by the imminent demolition of an old London inn near St Paul's, the Society for the Photographing of Relics of Old London set about using photography as a means of documenting buildings that… Organized by The Royal Academy | Type: exhibition
An Edwardian Family Album

February 27, 2010 to May 3, 2010 – Lady Lever Art Gallery This exhibition gives a fascinating glimpse into the life and leisure time of a Wirral family during the Edwardian era. The pictures were taken by Jack Urton, a keen amateur photographer, who lived i… Organized by Lady Lever Art Gallery | Type: exhibition
Lost London 1870-1945

February 27, 2010 to April 5, 2010 – Kenwood House An exhibition of almost 100 images, many never seen before, to accompany the release of a new book from Transatlantic Publishing with English Heritage, “Lost London 1870 – 1945”. This book by Philli… Organized by English Heritage | Type: exhibition
In the Footsteps of Isabella Bird

February 28, 2010 to March 12, 2010 – Royal Geographical Society An exhibition of contemporary photography which retraces the footsteps of Victorian writer and explorer Isabella Bird (1831-1904), comes to the Royal Geographical Society. Isabella was the first woma… Organized by Royal Geographical Society | Type: exhibition
Curious: The Craft of Microscopy

March 3, 2010 to July 3, 2010 – Hunterian Museum, Royal College of Surgeons Not quite Victorian photography per se, but might be of interest to the more technically minded BPH-bloggers out there keen on the science of microscopy. As part of the Royal Society's 350th anniver… Organized by Royal College of Surgeons | Type: exhibition
Photography! A Special Collection from the University of Leiden

March 5, 2010 to April 23, 2010 – The Hague Museum of Photography Leiden University’s photography collection represents the history, development and different forms of the medium. It includes examples of virtually all photographic techniques, rare objects and artis… Organized by The Hague Museum of Photography | Type: exhibition
In the Darkroom: Photographic Processes Before the Digital Age

March 7, 2010 to March 14, 2010 – National Gallery of Art The extraordinary range and complexity of the photographic process is explored, from the origins of the medium in the 1840s up to the advent of 20th century digital photography, in a comprehensive ex… Organized by National Gallery of Art | Type: exhibition