Information and discussion on all aspects of British photographic history

Saturday, September 4, 2010

Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography

May 12, 2010 to March 21, 2011 – The Edward Steichen Photography Galleries, Third Floor, The Museum of Modern Art For much of photography’s 170-year history, women have expanded its roles by experimenting with every aspect of the medium. Pictures by Women: A History of Modern Photography presents a selection of… Organized by The Museum of Modern Art | Type: exhibition
The Other Britain Revisited: Photographs from New Society

May 14, 2010 to September 26, 2010 – Photography Gallery 38A, V&A South Kensington As reported by the blog creator, this exhibition shows the outstanding documentary photographs from 1962 to 1982, originally published in the pioneering magazine New Society. The display will feature… Organized by Michael Wong | Type: exhibition
Exposed : Voyeurism, Surveillance and the Camera

May 28, 2010 to October 3, 2010 – Tate Modern An insight into photographic images made surreptitiously or without the explicit permission of those depicted. Spanning a variety of lens-based media from the late nineteenth century to the present… Organized by Tate Modern | Type: exhibition
Playing With Pictures: The Art of Victorian Photocollage

June 10, 2010 to September 5, 2010 – Art Gallery of Ontario Let's hope this exhibition reaches the British shores shortly as it appears to be making its way round the world. There has already been a number of interesting comments made of this exhibit on this… Organized by Art Institute of Chicago | Type: exhibition
Photographs from 19th Century Japan and China: Masterpieces from the Photographic Collection

June 18, 2010 to January 9, 2011 – Museum Ludwig Following the presentation of outstanding works from the history of 20th century photography, Museum Ludwig is now highlighting a new section of its extensive photographic holdings. Beginning 11 June… Organized by Museum Ludwig | Type: exhibition
Alfred Stieglitz: the Lake George years

June 23, 2010 at 6pm to September 5, 2010 at 5pm – Sydney, Australia ‘…much has happened in photography that is sensational, but very little that is comparable with what Stieglitz did. The body of his work, the key set – I think – is the most beautiful photographic do… Organized by Judy Annear | Type: exhibition
The Photography of Lewis Carroll

July 10, 2010 to September 18, 2010 – Guildford House Gallery As part of Guildford Borough Council's 'Curiouser and Curiouser' exhibition. World-famous for his children's stories (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass), Lewis Carroll was… Organized by Guildford Borough Council's Heritage Service | Type: exhibition
Camille Silvy, Photographer of Modern Life, 1834 - 1910

July 15, 2010 to October 24, 2010 – Porter Gallery, National Portrait Gallery Camille Silvy was a pioneer of early photography and one of the greatest French photographers of the nineteenth century. This exhibition includes many remarkable images which have not been exhibited… Organized by Jeu de Paume, Paris, in collaboration with the National Portrait Gallery, London | Type: exhibition
Endurance: Shackleton's Antarctic adventure

July 16, 2010 to January 3, 2011 – Merseyside Maritime Museum A landmark exhibition about an incredible real life tale of survival, the epic story of Sir Ernest Shackleton's 1914 Endurance expedition. The exhibition features about 150 compelling photographs of… Organized by Merseyside Maritime Museum | Type: exhibition
Life through the lens: snapshots of Salford's past

July 28, 2010 to March 1, 2011 – Salford Museum & Art Gallery To celebrate 10 years of the LifeTimes project, this exhibition shows some of the hidden gems from the museum, LifeTimes and local history library photographic collections. On display are images of… Organized by Salford Museum & Art Gallery | Type: exhibition
Visions of an Industrial Age

July 28, 2010 to September 5, 2010 – Harris Museum and Art Gallery Visions of an Industrial Age features a unique series of images of Preston captured on camera in the 1850s, taken only 70 years after the first cotton mill was built. The exhibition offers visitors… Organized by Harris Museum and Art Gallery | Type: exhibition
A Rare Gift: The Noel and Harriette Levine Collection of Photographs

July 31, 2010 to October 2, 2010 – The Israel Museum The Noel and Harriette Levine Photography Collection, spanning over 170 years, is considered among the finest photography collections in private hands and is being presented in its first public displ… Organized by The Israel Museum | Type: exhibition
The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today

August 1, 2010 to November 1, 2010 – The International Council of The Museum of Modern Art Exhibition Gallery, sixth floor Since its birth in the first half of the nineteenth century, photography has offered an unprecedented way to analyze works of art for further study. Through crop, focus, angle of view, degree of clos… Organized by The Museum of Modern Art | Type: exhibition
Photos & Postcards: The Originals of G.R. Lambert

August 2, 2010 to January 2, 2011 – Singapore Philatelic Museum An exhibition featuring a rare collection of GR Lambert 19th century photographs, and historical picture postcards in the late 19th to mid 20th century of early Singapore. Gustave Richard Lambert ar… Organized by Singapore Philatelic Museum | Type: exhibition
One Hundred Vintage Views of India

August 6, 2010 at 6pm to March 25, 2011 at 7pm – http://www.shapero.com/India/flash.html#/1/ Bernard J Shapero Rare Books, London and Tasveer, Bangalore are pleased to present this touring exhibition, One Hundred Vintage Views of India. The collection does not by any means attempt to portray… Organized by Roland Belgrave | Type: exhibition
A Circle and a Centure: Panoramic views of Reading from the 1890s and today

August 10, 2010 to October 29, 2010 – Staircase Hall, Museum of English Rural Life Using historic photographs from MERL's collections and modern digital photographs taken by Chris Widdows for the Reading Civic Society, this exhibition will present fescinating ad contrasting views o… Organized by Museum of English Rural Life | Type: exhibition
Photos: 100 Years of Girlguiding

August 13, 2010 to November 1, 2010 – Christ Church Celebrating 100 years of Girlguiding with a wonderful exhibition of photos from the early 1930s through to the present day. Were you a Brownie or a Guide? Come and relive some of your memories. Free… Organized by | Type: exhibition
The Indian Empire, Multiple Realities: Selections from the Portvale Collection

August 19, 2010 to November 7, 2010 – Asian Gallery, Ground Level, Art Gallery NSW This ambitious exhibition, shaped by a promised gift of works from the Portvale Collection, introduces the competing narratives that emerged following the first European encounters with India. The i… Organized by Art Gallery NSW | Type: exhibition
John Mercer: Lancashire's Curious Chemist

August 23, 2010 to November 22, 2010 – Queen Street Mill Textile Museum John Mercer of Great Harwood is one of Lancashire's unsung heroes. A Victorian man of science, his interests in chemistry and photography, printing and dyeing raised the game for the Lancashire texti… Organized by Queen Street Mill Textile Museum/Royal Society | Type: exhibition
New Woman: Corsets and Cameras: Photography, Bicycling and the New Woman in Turn-of-the-Century America

August 28, 2010 to December 31, 2010 – Henisch Photo-History Collection Exhibit Room, 201A Pattee Library Photographs, postcards, books, periodicals, advertisements and other original documents highlight the advent of the New Woman onto the American scene in the 1890s. Young, active, fashionable, adventu… Organized by | Type: exhibition
Celebrating the Negative

September 1, 2010 to September 30, 2010 – Lacock Abbey, Fox Talbot Museum A collection of photographs brought together in this exhibition to commemorate the 175th anniversary of Fox Talbot creating the first photographic negative in Lacock in 1835. Please do double-check… Organized by Fox Talbot Museum | Type: exhibition
The Walthamstow Tapestry (after Grayson Perry)

September 3, 2010 at 12pm to September 12, 2010 at 5pm – 1st Floor, 1-8 Tower Mews Selbourne Road, Walthamstow London E17 7JU A 15 metre group installation made up of over 240 individual photographs by 12 artists. The installation, in a large unused office space in Walthamstow, depicts life in Waltham Forest and creates a… Organized by Paul Greenleaf | Type: photography
American Ferrotypes: Second half of the 19th century

September 4, 2010 to January 9, 2011 – Swiss Camera Museum If you happen to be trekking in Switzerland this autumn, try and pop in to view this exhibition. In 1853 the French photographer Adolphe Martin invented the ferrotype process in which the sensitive… Organized by Swiss Camera Museum | Type: exhibition