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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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
April 19, 2012 to September 9, 2012 – Columbus Museum of Art Guided by a belief in the transformative power of photography, the Photo League took to the streets in the 1930s and 1940s to record the effects of poverty, war, racial inequality, and social injusti… Organized by Columbus Museum of Art | Type: exhibition
April 20, 2012 to August 19, 2012 – Templeman Galleries, New Orleans Museum of Art "What is a Photograph?" describes and includes many of the most common photographic processes (daguerreotypes, salted paper prints, gelatin silver prints, and ink jet prints), but it also includes ob… Organized by New Orleans Museum of Art | Type: exhibition
April 22, 2012 to August 5, 2012 – National Gallery of Art Since the invention of small hand-held cameras and faster films in the late 19th century, photographers have been fascinated with capturing everyday life in the urban environment. An exhibition of so… Organized by National Gallery of Art | Type: exhibition
April 25, 2012 to April 28, 2013 – Swiss Camera Museum In 1871, Richard Leach Maddox revolutionised photography when he discovered a way of producing sensitive plates which conserved their light sensitivity durably. This made them much easier to use, fo… Organized by Swiss Camera Museum | Type: exhibition
April 27, 2012 to July 8, 2012 – The Ian Potter Centre: NGV Australia This exhibition is a comprehensive survey of the work of Fred Kruger (1831–88), a German migrant to Victoria with a highly distinctive command of photographic language. Kruger’s detailed and compelli… Organized by NGV Australia | Type: exhibition
April 29, 2012 to June 3, 2012 – The University Library, University of Aberdeen A selection of the glass plate negatives that form the substantial collections of George Washington Wilson and the Aberdeen Harbour Board have produced a set of fine photographic prints that will be… Organized by The University Library, University of Aberdeen | Type: exhibition
May 1, 2012 to July 8, 2012 – Adam Art Gallery, Victoria University, Gate 3 On 6 June 2012 the second and the last transit of Venus of the century will occur. Departing from this extraordinary phenomenon, the Adam Art Gallery exhibition Dark Sky delves into the relationship… Organized by Adam Art Gallery | Type: exhibition
May 1, 2012 to June 8, 2012 – Alon Zakaim Fine Art Renowned British photographer Terry O'Neill is launching an exhibition of his iconic images coupled with new, previously unseen works. As one of the world's most acclaimed and collected photographers… Organized by Alon Zakaim Fine Art | Type: exhibition
May 1, 2012 to September 23, 2012 – Lacock Abbey, Fox Talbot Museum Michael Palin is your guide as you travel the world in this spectacular exhibition. Experience the beautiful faces and places he found through breathtaking photographs, captured by his friend and tra… Organized by Michael Wong | Type: exhibition
May 17, 2012 to October 21, 2012 – National Portrait Gallery To mark Elizabeth II’s Diamond Jubilee in 2012 this landmark exhibition brings together over sixty of the most remarkable and resonant portraits of the Queen made during her sixty-year reign. Featuri… Organized by National Portrait Gallery | Type: exhibition
May 17, 2012 at 7:30pm to August 15, 2012 at 10pm – The Square Club Berkley Square Clifton Bristol BS8 1HB An exhibition of Angela Williams Portraits from the 1960's Organized by Angela Williams Archive AWA | Type: exhibition, in, bristol, at, the, square, club
May 18, 2012 to September 2, 2012 – International Center of Photography As the American Civil War ground to a dispiriting and unheroic end after the surrender of General Robert E. Lee's rebel forces and the shocking assassination of President Abraham Lincoln in mid-April… Organized by International Center of Photography | Type: exhibition
May 18, 2012 to September 2, 2012 – International Center of Photography In honor of its retiring Ehrenkranz Director Willis Hartshorn, the International Center of Photography presents an engaging survey of its vast and unique collection of photographs. Founded in 1975, a… Organized by International Center of Photography | Type: exhibition
May 19, 2012 to August 31, 2012 – Lumen Church The Post Office in Pictures is an exhibition showcasing iconic photographic images sourced from The Royal Mail Archive. In 1933 Sir Stephen Tallents was appointed Public Relations Officer to the Gene… Organized by The Royal Mail Archive | Type: exhibition
May 19, 2012 to August 27, 2012 – Neue Galerie New York Museum for German and Austrian Art The Neue Galerie New York will present “Heinrich Kuehn and His American Circle: Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen,” an exhibition focusing on the luminous work of this important Austrian photograp… Organized by Neue Galerie New York Museum for German and Austrian Art | Type: exhibition
May 26, 2012 to August 25, 2012 – The Dick From photographs by William Henry Fox Talbot, Julia Margaret Cameron and Eadweard Muybridge to Dorothea Lange, Tony Ray-Jones and Weegee, this exhibition highlights some of the most famous images eve… Organized by The Dick and NMeM | Type: exhibition
May 28, 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
May 31, 2012 to August 19, 2012 – Musee Heritage In spite of extreme challenges, early photographers were able to create both beautiful and informative images. Government, military, scientific and commercial photographers recorded historical detai… Organized by Musee Heritage | Type: exhibition
May 31, 2012 to July 29, 2012 – Institute Dutch Paris, City of photography, has always attracted professionals worldwide. The Dutch photographers were also likely to spend part of their work in this city so rich visually. Following a success at th… Organized by Institute Dutch | Type: exhibition
June 1, 2012 to September 3, 2012 – Royal BC Museum Celebrate the Queen’s Diamond Jubilee at the Royal BC Museum. This special exhibition of nearly 100 portraits by royal photographer, Cecil Beaton (1904-80) depicts Elizabeth in her roles as princess,… Organized by Michael Wong | Type: exhibition
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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