Information and discussion on all aspects of British photographic history

Wednesday, April 18, 2012

The Century of the Film

May 26, 2011 to April 30, 2012 – Swiss Camera Museum When films on a flexible support appeared on the market in the 1880s, the whole world of photography was radically transformed. Cameras underwent a complete metamorphosis, rapidly becoming smaller a… Organized by Swiss Camera Museum | Type: exhibition
The Darkroom: Extraordinary stories from the history o f Dutch photography

August 19, 2011 to December 29, 2013 – Las Palmas Building, Nederlands Fotomuseum In The Netherlands there isn’t a permanent place where photo history is shown. The Fotomuseum fills this void with a new exhibition where aspects of the Dutch photography history is shown by the coll… Organized by Nederlands Fotomuseum | Type: exhibition
Canadian Industrial Photographs, 1858 to Today

August 25, 2011 to April 29, 2012 – Musée des beaux-arts de l’Ontario Songs of the Future: Canadian Industrial Photographs, 1858 to Today traces the history of Canada’s changing industrial landscape through the lens of some of the country’s most extraordinary photograp… Organized by Art Gallery of Ontario | Type: exhibition
Small Lives - Photographs of Irish Childhood 1880 - 1970

September 12, 2011 to June 28, 2012 – National Photographic Archive The 50 photographs in this exhibition are drawn from across NLI’s collections, and range from formal studio portraits featuring children of the landed classes taken in the 1880s to more candid shot… Organized by National Photographic Archive | Type: exhibition
Romantic Camera

November 30, 2011 to June 3, 2012 – Scottish National Portrait Gallery Romantic Camera is the first exhibition within the new Photography Gallery in the refurbished Scottish National Portrait Gallery. This space will display a rolling programme of shows and exhibitions… Organized by Scottish National Portrait Gallery | Type: exhibition
Dawn’s Early Light: The First Fifty Years of American Photography

January 4, 2012 to May 4, 2012 – Cornell University Library Cornell University Library’s Division of Rare and Manuscript Collections invites you to an exhibition about the first half-century of photography in America, from its invention in Europe in 1839 thro… Organized by Cornell University Library | Type: exhibition
People, Lives and Landscapes, 1898-1934: Images from the Land of the Bible

January 8, 2012 to September 30, 2012 – Eretz Israel Museum At the end of the 19th and beginning f the 20th century the American Colony photographers of Jerusalem commemorated the lives, people, and sites of Palestine. In thousands of high-quality photographs… Organized by Eretz Israel Museum | Type: exhibition
People, Lives and Landscapes, 1898-1934: mages from the Land of the Bible

January 8, 2012 to September 30, 2012 – Eretz Israel Museum At the end of the 19th and beginning f the 20th century the American Colony photographers of Jerusalem commemorated the lives, people, and sites of Palestine. In thousands of high-quality photographs… Organized by Eretz Israel Museum | Type: exhibition
A Yemenite Portrait: Photography and Memory 1881- 1948

January 8, 2012 to April 30, 2012 – Eretz Israel Museum In 1882, at the end of the 19th century, the new immigrants from Yemen came to the Palestine and settled in Kfar Hashiloach near Jerusalem. Their number steadily increased, reaching 35,000 in 1948, w… Organized by Eretz Israel Museum | Type: exhibition
People, Lives and Landscapes, 1898-1934: Images from the Land of the Bible

January 8, 2012 to September 30, 2012 – Eretz Israel Museum At the end of the 19th and beginning f the 20th century the American Colony photographers of Jerusalem commemorated the lives, people, and sites of Palestine. In thousands of high-quality photographs… Organized by Eretz Israel Museum | Type: exhibition
Scott's Last Expedition

January 20, 2012 to September 2, 2012 – Natural History Museum Scott's Last Expedition reveals powerful stories of human endeavour and struggles for survival, and celebrates the expedition's scientific achievements. Get a real sense of the everyday realities and… Organized by Natural History Museum, London, Antarctic Heritage Trust (New Zealand) and Canterbury Museum, New Zealand | Type: exhibition
The Dutch photo book

January 21, 2012 to April 29, 2012 – Nederlands Fotomuseum First overview of the development of the Dutch photo book since 1945 and its significance for the Dutch photography. With highlights from the past 65 years, including many important Dutch photographe… Organized by Nederlands Fotomuseum | Type: exhibition
Britain’s Child Migrants

January 23, 2012 to May 6, 2012 – Museum Victoria From the 1860s through to 1967, more than 100,000 children were sent from Britain to Australia and other Commonwealth countries through child migration schemes, changing the lives of these children d… Organized by Museum Victoria | Type: exhibition
An Age of Confidence: Photographs by Bedford Lemere & Co

January 27, 2012 to May 7, 2012 – Lady Lever Art Gallery This photographic exhibition features the work of Bedford Lemere & Co, a leading English firm of architectural photographers between 1870 and 1930. Although based in London, the firm photographed… Organized by Lady Lever Art Gallery | Type: exhibition
Highlights from the Permanent Collection of Photography, Part 1

January 27, 2012 to April 29, 2012 – Fred Jones Jr. Museum of Art This exhibition surveys the history of photography beginning with 19th-century photographers, such as Nadar and Eadweard Muybridge, and concluding with recent works by contemporary photographers such… Organized by Michael Wong | Type: exhibition
Cold Recall: Reflections of a Polar Explorer

February 1, 2012 to April 22, 2012 – Swansea Museum Cold Recall: Reflections of a Polar Explorer, is a photo exhibit and a celebration of the 100th anniversary of Roald Amundsen's journey to become the 1st explorer to reach the South Pole. Roald Amun… Organized by Swansea Museum | Type: exhibition
The Queen: 60 Photographs for 60 Years

February 4, 2012 to October 28, 2012 – Windsor Castle Sixty photographs of The Queen, including the work of leading press photographers of the past six decades, are brought together for a display at Windsor Castle to celebrate Her Majesty’s Diamond Jubi… Organized by The Boss herself | Type: exhibition
Snapshot: Painters and Photography, Bonnard to Vuillard

February 4, 2012 to May 6, 2012 – The Phillips Collection The invention of the Kodak handheld camera in 1888 gave post-impressionist artists a new source of inspiration. Investigating the techniques and compositional strategies made possible by the new appa… Organized by The Phillips Collection, the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, and the Indianapolis Museum of Art. | Type: exhibition
Shadows of History: Photographs of the Civil War from the Collection of Julia J. Norrell

February 4, 2012 to May 6, 2012 – Corcoran Gallery and College of Art + Design The American Civil War was one of the first conflicts to be extensively documented by photography. The public had never before seen such powerful images of human devastation and the destructive impa… Organized by Corcoran Gallery | Type: exhibition
Silver, Salt, and Sunlight: Early Photography in Britain and France

February 7, 2012 to April 19, 2012 – Gallery 169, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston The invention of photography in 1839 was a pivotal achievement that changed the course of cultural history. The early years of the medium were rich in experimentation. As each process and technique w… Organized by Museum of Fine Arts, Boston | Type: exhibition
Controversies: A Legal and Ethical History of Photography

February 9, 2012 to August 12, 2012 – Trapholt Museum Since its invention in 1839, photography has provoked numerous controversies and sensational trials. The photographic image has been at the centre of important ethical debates and legal questions thr… Organized by Trapholt Museum/Musée de l’Elysée | Type: exhibition
Reconsidering the Photographic Masterpiece

February 10, 2012 to July 10, 2012 – UNM Art Museum The sweeping exhibition, RECONSIDERING THE PHOTOGRAPHIC MASTERPIECE, curated by Michele Penhall, will present approximately 100 works chosen from the museum’s permanent collection—some on view for th… Organized by UNM Art Museum | Type: exhibition
Art of Arrangement: Photography and the Still Life Tradition

February 11, 2012 to May 7, 2012 – The Holburne Museum Art of Arrangement: Photography and the Still Life Tradition is a visually arresting exhibition at Bath’s Holburne Museum. Organised in partnership with the National Media Museum, it surveys the many… Organized by The Holburne Museum/National Media Museum | Type: exhibition
Historic Process Workshops at Lacock

February 14, 2012 to July 12, 2012 – Fox Talbot Museum Our 2012 calendar of workshops is now online and available to photographers and historians alike. Organized by Roger Watson | Type: workshops
Judy Annear

February 15, 2012 at 6pm to May 13, 2012 at 7pm – Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia http://www.artgallery.nsw.gov.au/exhibitions/making-sense/ Organized by Judy Annear | Type: exhibition
After Yesterday

February 17, 2012 to June 3, 2012 – İstanbul Museum of Modern Art After Yesterday is an exhibition of images from the İstanbul Modern Photography Collection. Bringing together modern and contemporary examples from Turkish photography, the show displays the technica… Organized by İstanbul Museum of Modern Art | Type: exhibition
Conversations: Photography from the Bank of America

February 22, 2012 to May 20, 2012 – Irish Museum of Modern Art Conversations: Photography from the Bank of America Collection comprises more than 100 photographs drawn from the renowned Bank of America Collection. The exhibition documents the evolution of photog… Organized by Irish Museum of Modern Art | Type: exhibition
19th Century Photography and Art

February 24, 2012 to May 20, 2012 – Moravian Gallery Although the relationship to fine arts in the 19th century is a most remarkable area in the history of photography, the local artistic output which contributed to the forming of the relationship – wh… Organized by Moravian Gallery | Type: exhibition
Eve Arnold - All About Eve

March 2, 2012 to April 27, 2012 – Art Sensus In celebration of her life and work as a pioneering photographer, Art Sensus will present over 100 unique photographs and a new book of the work of American photographer Eve Arnold (1912-2012). Curat… Organized by Art Sensus | Type: exhibition
A Tale of Two Cities: Eugene Atget’s Paris and Berenice Abbott’s New York

March 2, 2012 to May 2, 2012 – The Southeast Museum of Photography More than an exhibition of architectural photography, this show examines the work of two artists who were inextricably linked to each other and to the development of modern photography. Eugene Atget… Organized by The Southeast Museum of Photography | Type: exhibition
Felice Beato: A Photographer on the Eastern Road

March 6, 2012 to May 6, 2012 – Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography This exhibition was exhibited at the Getty Museum last year. In a peripatetic career that spanned five decades, the photographer Felice Beato (1832–1909) covered a wide swath of East Asia. Following… Organized by Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography | Type: exhibition
Hoppé: Studio and Street

March 9, 2012 to May 20, 2012 – Fundacion Mapfre Resident in Great Britain from 1902, Emil Otto Hoppé began taking photographs in 1907 and enjoyed an immediate success. Today his work offers an excellent record of England’s artistic and intellectua… Organized by Fundacion Mapfre | Type: exhibition
Broken Stones. Ruins and the Picturesque in Vintage Photography

March 15, 2012 to May 5, 2012 – James Hyman Photography A broken stone has necessarily more various forms in it than a whole one; a bent roof has more various curves in it than a straight one; every excrescence or cleft involves some additional complexity… Organized by Valérie C. Whitacre | Type: exhibition
Island Stories: British photography from 1945 to the present

March 16, 2012 to September 19, 2012 – Room 38a, Victoria & Albert Museum Drawn exclusively from the V&A collections, this display is a selection of around 70 photographs celebrating the variety of photography in the UK since 1945. It captures the diversity of the isla… Organized by Victoria & Albert Museum | Type: exhibition
Untold Stories

March 23, 2012 to September 16, 2012 – Brackett–Clark Gallery, George Eastman House George Eastman House turns to its own unparalleled collections for a survey of photography from the earliest efforts in the 19th century to the most recent techniques and aesthetics. See: Untold Stor… Organized by George Eastman House | Type: exhibition
The Birth of Photography: From Pictorialism to Modern Photography 1889-1929

March 29, 2012 to July 1, 2012 – Museum of Fine Arts The period of Pictorialism represents a milestone in the history of photography. The new photographic trend developed almost simultaneously in the 1890s in England, Austria, France and Germany. In th… Organized by Museum of Fine Arts | Type: exhibition
The Birth of Art Photography

March 30, 2012 to July 1, 2012 – Museum of Fine Arts From Pictorialism to Modern Photography 1889-1929. The period of Pictorialism represents a milestone in the history of photography. The new photographic trend developed almost simultaneously in the 1… Organized by Museum of Fine Arts | Type: exhibition
Marcus Adams: Royal Photographer

March 31, 2012 to June 17, 2012 – Harewood House Trust, Harewood House In 2012 Harewood is pleased to be hosting a special collection of photographs generously lent by Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II from the Royal Collection. ‘Marcus Adams: Royal Photographer’, will sho… Organized by Harewood House Trust | Type: exhibition
Royal Harewood: Celebrating the Life of The Yorkshire Princess

March 31, 2012 to June 17, 2012 – Harewood House Trust A unique collection fo Royal photographs capturing the Queen from early childhood to the births of her own children is to go on display at Harewood House. Harewood House was home to Princess Mary, Th… Organized by Harewood House Trust | Type: exhibition
Just One Look - At 1960s Chester

April 2, 2012 to June 29, 2012 – Chester History & Heritage Just One Look - At 1960s Chester - welcome to Chester 50 years ago with a photographic exhibition looking at the changing face of the city at Chester History and Heritage Centre. Organized by Chester History & Heritage | Type: exhibition
Naked before the Camera

April 4, 2012 to September 9, 2012 – Metropolitan Museum of Art Since the beginning of art and in every medium, depicting the human body has been among the artist's greatest challenges and supreme achievements, as can so easily be seen by Museum visitors walking… Organized by Metropolitan Museum of Art | Type: exhibition
Fay Godwin Photographer

April 4, 2012 to July 28, 2012 – Aberdeen Art Gallery This small display highlights a local private collection of photographs by the well know British photographer Fay Godwin. During the 1970s and 1980s Godwin produced portraits of dozens of well known… Organized by Aberdeen Art Gallery | Type: exhibition
Cardiff Before Cardiff - Keith S. Robertson and Jon Pountney

April 5, 2012 to May 27, 2012 – Wales Millennium Centre Cardiff before Cardiff is an exhibition which stands apart from the majority of photographic shows. It comprises of and combines social history, a mystery story, social media, classic documentary nar… Organized by Wales Millennium Centre | Type: exhibition
With Scott to the Pole: The Terra Nova Expedition 1910-13

April 6, 2012 to May 28, 2012 – Severn Studio, Brantwood A Scott Centenary event in association with The Royal Geographical Society. Historic photographs of this ill-fated Antarctic expedition taken by `camera artist` Herbert Ponting tell an unforgettable… Organized by Brantwood Trust | Type: exhibition
Ladies and Gentlemen! The Camera as a Mirror

April 15, 2012 to April 22, 2012 – MODERNA MUSEET MALMÖ This spring Moderna Museet Malmö will be showing more than forty photographs from the period 1950-90 taken by leading artists such as Andy Warhol, Cindy Sherman, Robert Mapplethorpe, Samuel Fosso, Tr… Organized by MODERNA MUSEET MALMÖ | Type: exhibition
Memory and the Photographic Image

April 16, 2012 to September 9, 2012 – Bartels Gallery, Floor 1L, Johnson Museum of Art For many photographers, memory plays a large role in the choice of subject and how that subject is interpreted. These images often become the only record of a moment passed, and therefore the one tha… Organized by Johnson Museum of Art | Type: exhibition
Photography and Photographers in Britain 1839-2012

April 17, 2012 to June 12, 2012 – Seminar Room Three, The Victoria and Albert Museum Investigate the work of British photographers from the nineteenth century to the present and discuss key ideas and questions shaping the history of photography as a medium for creative expression. Tu… Organized by The Victoria and Albert Museum | Type: course
Early European Photography

April 18, 2012 to May 27, 2012 – National Waterfront Museum PEEP (Promoting Early European Photography) draws together pioneers from Iceland, England and Wales, showcasing photographs from the 1850s to the 1930s. South Wales photographers of the mid-nineteent… Organized by PEEP (Promoting Early European Photography)/National Waterfront Museum | Type: exhibition
Kodak and the Creation of Popular Photography: Explaining the Life and Death of an Icon

April 18, 2012 from 5:30pm to 6:45pm – Morrison Room, Cambridge University Library With Kodak's recent bankruptcy, a spectacular chapter in the history of photography has come to an end. However, contrary to most analyses that have been published, Kodak's demise was not caused by a… Organized by Cambridge University Library | Type: talk