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12201151685?profile=originalFlints Auctions is offering an early experimental camera, believed to be c.1840, with an estimate of £50,000-70,000. The camera is made from mahogany, with a simple back retained by a wedge and with a simple lens in a brass mount. The back carries a series of small pinholes, which were presumably from pins used to fix sensitised paper to it (see below)

12201152657?profile=originalAlthough the camera comes with no provenance it has been inspected by Roger Watson, formerly curator at the Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock. Although the camera is described by the auctioneers as a 'mousestrap' camera Watson notes 'there is nothing to indicate that this example was made by or used by Talbot'. 

The auction takes place on 19 November 2020 The camera (lot 452) can be seen here and the complete catalogue of Fine Photographica and Instruments of Science can be seen here

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Obituary: Chris Killip (1946-2020)

12201144872?profile=originalBPH heard late yesterday afternoon that the British documentary photographer Chris Killip had died at his home in the United States. Killip was born in the Isle of Man, and started his career by assisting Adrian Flowers in London. From 1969 he began concentrating on his own photography. In 1977 he became a founder, exhibition curator, and advisor at the Side Gallery Newcastle, and worked as its first director. His work was championed and purchased by the V&A Museum, London. 

He documented many aspects of 1980s Britain and is best known for In Flagrante (1988). His work has been widely exhibited and collected and his body of work The Station is currently on view at the Martin Parr Foundation. 

12201145263?profile=originalFrom 1991-2017 he was Professor of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University, in Massachusetts.

Killip received the Henri Cartier-Bresson Award for In Flagrante.

Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/oct/14/chris-killip-hard-hitting-photographer-of-britains-working-class-dies-aged-74

and: 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2020/oct/16/chris-killip-recognition-for-a-great-photographer

Images  © Michael Pritchard. Above: Killip at the launch symposium for the Martin Parr Foundation in 2017. Read more here.  Left: The Station at Martin Parr Foundation, on view until 20 December 2020. 

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12201143659?profile=originalThe British and Commonwealth collection, based at Bristol Archives, consists of objects, photographs, films, papers and sound archives reflecting the occupations and interests of mainly white British people living and working in many parts of the former empire during the late 19th and 20th centuries. The new online catalogue, launched today, will make more material available for people worldwide so they can examine difficult, forgotten or hidden histories from their own perspectives. It will be adding 15,000 entries initially, and providing access to over 7,000 digitised images and 200 films.

See: British Empire & Commonwealth Collection 

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12201144071?profile=originalLondon's Photographers' Gallery and the Photo London fair are amongst the largest beneficiaries of today's Arts Council England investment of £257 million in 1,385 venues, theatres, museums and cultural organisations, through the first tranche of Culture Recovery Fund: Grants programme.

The announcement was only for Round 1 of grants applications under £1 million. Further announcements will highlight round two of Grants under £1 million, grants over £1 million, and the Capital Kickstart and Repayable Finance programmes. 

The funding is for organisations and there continues to be minimal or no direct support for freelancers and artists, although some support may trickle down from those funded organisations.   

For photography the following principal organisations have benefited:

Amber Film & Photography Collective £172,363 Newcastle upon Tyne Central
Derby QUAD Ltd £245,000 Derby South
Four Corners £98,735 Bethnal Green and Bow
Lumen Arts £55,000 Leeds Central
Photo London Limited £200,000 Cities of London and Westminster
Photoworks £50,000 Brighton, Kemptown
Site Gallery £112,266 Sheffield Central
The Photographers' Gallery £356,420 Cities of London and Westminster

 Details of all organisations can be found here: https://www.artscouncil.org.uk/publication/culture-recovery-fund-data#

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12201139097?profile=originalChiswick Auctions is delighted to offer a historically important album of early photographs by Captain Thomas Honywood (1819-1888), notable for taking the earliest known photographs of Sussex. He is also responsible for the invention of the photographic technique known as Nature Printing. This important album of his private  photographs will be offered in the Photographica sale at Chiswick Auctions on Wednesday, 28 October, 2020. It is estimated to fetch £50,000-£70,000.

12201140261?profile=originalThe album includes an array of arresting portraits of the inhabitants of Horsham, as well as buildings and the surrounding Surrey & Sussex landscapes, in the form of 170 calotypes and albumen prints, dating from 1851 onwards. They are the earliest images from this area of England known to exist, taken ten years after William Henry Fox Talbot invented the Calotype process of photography.  

Talking about the contents of this exceptional album, Austin Farahar, Head of Photographica at Chiswick Auctions explains: 'The album has a narrative similar to any great artist’s sketchbook, full of experimentation, development and adjustments. It is fascinating to observe how the Polymath Thomas Honywood was utilising and learning the new photographic artform. Many of the works contained within are simply breath-taking. The album’s contents, containing personal portraiture studies of the people and the places that he knew and loved dearly, communicate with such arresting intimacy a record of the world that Honywood inhabited. Before these photographs were discovered, every record or account of this part of England had been translated via the eyes and hands of an artist, perhaps with the assistance of the camera-lucida, but still from the subjective view of a draftsman.

What we have here is a beautiful and extraordinary intersection of art and science. Very few people were proficient in this process and fewer excelled with such artistic flair in the way that Honywood did.'

12201140497?profile=originalJeremy Knight from the Horsham Museum, notes: 'Thomas Honywood is that typical figure of British heritage, known and promoted locally for his innovative and creative ability, with Horsham Museum holding a unique collection of his nature prints and photographs, since he first exhibited them over 150 years ago. Now through the power of the art and photographic market, awakening global interest he will become appreciated for the genius that he was, a nationally important figure in the story of British photography.'

As well as his photographic skills, Honywood was also a skilled scientist and archaeologist, famously discovering the ‘Horsham Hoard’ of medieval pottery during one of his many excavations in his beloved West Sussex - the photographs of which are included in the album.  He was very involved in his local community, which also no doubt enabled him to capture events and people first-hand. He was Captain of the Horsham Volunteer Fire Brigade for many years and assisted neighbouring towns and villages in starting their own Fire Services, which earned him an oil portrait of himself, which now hangs in Horsham Museum.

12201141658?profile=originalHonywood’s passion and skill in photography led to much experimentation with a range of photo-chemical processes, which resulted in him devising a new technique called ‘Nature Printing’, which enabled the transfer of positive images onto a range of surfaces. He was able to patent this technique and exhibited it at the London International Inventions Exhibition of 1885, which was received with both awe and commendation.

See: https://www.chiswickauctions.co.uk/auction/details/28%20Oct%202020%20B%20-photographica/?au=588

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12201138086?profile=originalAlan Denney and Tamara Stoll discuss their new book The Rio Tape/Slide Archive, published by Isola Press, in conversation with Anne McNeill, Director of Impressions Gallery. Programmed as part of Impressions Gallery’s Online Photobook Fair 2020. 

The Tape/Slide Newsreel Group was an adult education project that met in the basement of the Rio Cinema in Dalston, East London. It taught young, mostly unemployed, locals photography and sound-recording skills and sent them out to report on Hackney life. The resulting ’newsreels’ were then shown on the big screen before the main feature.

The recently rediscovered slides – more than 12,000 – are a snapshot of Hackney in the 1980s: protests, social issues, work and play, and vibrant street life, parties and festivals. They show the borough’s diverse, working-class communities as they endured the day-to-day hardships of Margaret Thatcher’s Britain.

Alan Denney is a Hackney resident since 1974. He is a photographer and local historian, and he scanned the entire Rio slide collection.

Tamara Stoll is an artist and community activist. Her self-published book Ridley Road Market (2019) highlighted the history and people of this Hackney institution that is under threat from developers.

Anne McNeill, now Director at Impressions Gallery, started her career in the early 1980s running similar projects at the radical gallery Camerawork in Tower Hamlets and Nightingale Estate, Hackney.

Rio Tape/Slide Archive
17 October 2020
11.30am - 12.10pm
Free, booking essential here: https://www.impressions-gallery.com/event/rio-tape-slide-archive/

More information can be found on the Rio Cinema Archive Instagram page http://instagram.com/riocinemaarchive.

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12201138261?profile=originalQueen Victoria and Prince Albert were passionate collectors of photography from the announcement of the medium. Following their purchase of the Osborne estate in 1845, this locality became an important setting for the early photographic experiences of the royal family. The presence of the royal family at Osborne House contributed to the Isle of Wight becoming a popular destination in the mid-nineteenth century.

Read more about its role, importance and wider impact in this  online resource by Helen Trompeteler, a former curator at the Royal Collection Trust. https://albert.rct.uk/placing-osborne-in-the-history-of-early-photography

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Emeritus Professor Roger Taylor MVO

12201138284?profile=originalRoger Taylor, photo-historian, has been recognised in the 2020 Queen's birthday honours list with a MVO  - Member of the Royal Victorian Order - for 'services to the Royal Collection'. Taylor's association with the collection started in the late 1970s with a project for World Microfilms, it developed in to a landmark exhibition with Frances Dimond, Crown and Camera which was shown at the Queens's Gallery in 1987.

Taylor was a curator at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television from 1985-1996. His projects since then - in print, in public and online - have all been significant and continue to inform photographic scholarship.

See: https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/3645593

and for a full biography: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Taylor_(photographic_historian)    

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12201136675?profile=originalThe long history of the renowned Alinari photographic firm, founded in 1852 in Florence, reached a turning point in December 2019 as the regional government Regione Toscana acquired the company's millions of photographic objects, documents, specialized publications and historical technical equipment; the acquisition of the digital assets will soon complete the process. The Fondazione Alinari per la Fotografia (Alinari Foundation for Photography) was established on July 16, 2020.

The shift from private to public ownership represents not only a management challenge, but also a unique opportunity to root the activities of the newly created Fondazione into the fabric of the vibrant international scientific community at the highest intellectual level. So as to facilitate this transition, the Photothek of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz in partnership with Regione Toscana and Fondazione Alinari per la Fotografia will host a study day with prominent international scholars in dialogue with artist Armin Linke. The goal of the event is to identify new directions and outline new research scenarios that will connect the past, present and future of the Alinari project.

The long history of the renowned Alinari photographic firm, founded in 1852 in Florence, reached a turning point in December 2019 as the regional government Regione Toscana acquired the company's millions of photographic objects, documents, specialized publications and historical technical equipment; the acquisition of the digital assets will soon complete the process. The Fondazione Alinari per la Fotografia (Alinari Foundation for Photography) was established on July 16, 2020. The shift from private to public ownership represents not only a management challenge, but also a unique opportunity to root the activities of the newly created Fondazione into the fabric of the vibrant international scientific community at the highest intellectual level. So as to facilitate this transition, the Photothek of the Kunsthistorisches Institut in Florenz in partnership with Regione Toscana and Fondazione Alinari per la Fotografia will host a study day with prominent international scholars in dialogue with artist Armin Linke. The goal of the event is to identify new directions and outline new research scenarios that will connect the past, present and future of the Alinari project.

Speakers include:

  • Estelle Blaschke (Universität Basel): Rarity vs. Ubiquity. Some Thoughts on the Institutionalisation of Photography
  • Elizabeth Edwards (De Montfort University, Leicester / V&A Research Institute, London): Street Views: An Everyday Dissemination of Photographs
  • Paul Frosh (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): When is an Archive Also a Bank? Industry, Value and Economy in a Photographic Institution
  • Armin Linke (Berlin / ISIA Urbino): Artistic Practices in Photographic Archives: Some Examples
  • Joan M. Schwartz (Queen's University, Kingston): Access Aims and Descriptive Affordances
  • Tiziana Serena (Università di Firenze): Making Choices. History is Not a Ready-Made: Institutionalisation as Re-Writing
  • Kelley Wilder (De Montfort University, Leicester): Photographs as Bureaucracy in the Business of Photography

See more and register here: https://www.khi.fi.it/en/aktuelles/veranstaltungen/2020/10/on-alinari.php

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Developed in Birmingham

12201135061?profile=originalA new Community Interest Company Developed in Birmingham has now formed, co-directed by Jo Gane, Philip Singleton and Anna Sparham. Its aim is to build upon the work produced in 2017, led by the late Pete James.

In line with Pete’s wishes and intentions, Developed in Birmingham CIC will continue to explore and expose the city’s rich photographic history, realising contemporary responses and delivering public engagement activities. A legendary curator and force for good in photography, Pete James had an encyclopaedic knowledge of the history of photography in the city. He originally co-founded Developed in Birmingham with Jo Gane in 2017 as a platform for engagement with the city’s early photographic history. Jo, Philip and Anna collectively aim to continue to share and develop knowledge with the same spirit of openness Pete offered the photographic community and beyond.

For more information on their current plans see the website www.developedinbham.com and follow on social media.

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12201153087?profile=originalHansons auctioneers in Staffordshire is offering a lot from a descendent of the important photographer Arthur Lamont Henderson relating his his royalty photographers. Estimated at £15,000-25,000 the lots consists of royal portraits and other examples of his photographic work. The auction takes place on 13 October 2020. 

See: https://www.the-saleroom.com/en-gb/auction-catalogues/hansons/catalogue-id-hanson10275/lot-579c3433-abc2-43d9-acc0-ac4801015bed

The lot description is below: 

Alexander Lamont Henderson (British, 1838-1907), experimental photographer and member of the Royal Photographic Society. In 1884, Queen Victoria awarded Henderson with a Royal Warrant, which allowed him to depict moments from the everyday life of the royal family. Victoria commissioned a number of enamels to be made from earlier plates, which included Prince Albert and John Brown (some of Henderson's enamels can be found in the Royal Collection Trust). It is believed that a number of miniatures were donated for display in Queen Mary's Dolls' House at Windsor. Henderson's commercial work was donated to the library of the London Guildhall Museum in 1907 but destroyed in the Blitz during WW2. A selection of his royal work was donated to the V&A museum, and a considerable number of his slides were rescued by Mr. F. C. Guilmant of Southampton and provided the basis of an exhibition of his work at Brighton Polytechnic in 1987. His work is naturally scarce, highlighting the importance of this archive

12201153488?profile=originalPhotographic archive, comprising: 69 oval enamel miniature photographic portraits, 1870s, including Queen Victoria; Prince Albert; John Brown (Scottish personal attendant of Queen Victoria); Prince of Wales (later King Edward VII); Alexandra of Denmark; Prince Leopold; Princess Louise Margaret of Prussia; Princess Alice, Grand Duchess of Hesse, and various non-royal portraits, in varying sizes from 14mm by 10mm (smallest) to 8cm by 6.5cm (largest), many inscribed with titles in ink on reverse, some of the more important royal portraits in gilt metal frames or mounts, to include an oval enamel photograph of the moon with title, 'The Moon, from an original negative taken by Messrs. Grubb's great Melbourne Telescope', 10cm by 13cm; a gilt framed set of 11 enamel photographic portraits depicting the Henderson family (including three of Alexander Lamont 12201154464?profile=originalHenderson); several non-enamel photographic miniature portraits, including two in lockets and one in mirror; 23 square lantern slides depicting scenes in Grasse, French Riviera, including an interior view of Queen Victoria's drawing room in the Grand Hotel, housed in card case; 31 square lantern slides depicting topographical views and people in Nice, French Riviera, including one of Tilling's Private Omnibus (with passengers), housed in card case; 22 wide angle glass slides depicting scenes in Grasse, including architecture and people, housed in wooden case; 25 wide angle glass slides depicting landscapes and harbour scenes, housed in wooden case; 43 square lantern slides depicting miscellaneous family portraits, housed in card case; five loose glass slides (four square, one wide angle), including a view of Queen Victoria's sitting room in Grand Hotel, Grasse; a mahogany stereo viewer, and an early-19th century watercolour miniature of a lady (framed with lock of hair verso)

Provenance: By descent. Vendor's great-great grandfather was Alexander Lamont Henderson

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12201149683?profile=originalJoin TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities Humanities Division for an online in-conversation with Prof Geoffrey Batchen and Dr Lena Fritsch, discussing the work of pioneering British photographer and botanist Anna Atkins (1799-1871). Her innovative use of new photographic technologies linked art and science, and exemplified the potential of photography in books. Geoffrey Batchen is Professor of Art History at the University of Oxford and Dr Lena Fritsch is the Curator of Modern & Contemporary Art at the Ashmolean Museum, University of Oxford.

This talk accompanies the 2020 Photo Oxford festival, Women & Photography: Ways of Seeing and Being Seen.

Tuesday 10 November 2020, 5:00pm - 6.00pm
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12201149057?profile=originalThis online talk, part of the Photo Oxford programme, is delivered by one of the leading researchers on early women photographers, Rose Teanby. It focuses on British women photography pioneers from its earliest days. Many early women photographers have been hidden from history or rarely highlighted despite their unique contribution to our photographic heritage. Examples of women choosing to adopt amateur or professional photography, who have left a legacy of extraordinary photographic images, will be discussed.

The talk will be followed by a Q+A with Rose Teanby. 

Online, free, register here: https://rps.org/womenpioneers

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Lacock Abbey has slavery link

12201147299?profile=originalThe National Trust has released an Interim Report on the Connections between Colonialism and Properties now in the Care of the National Trust, Including Links with Historic Slavery which surveys its properties and highlights links between the property, past owners and slavery and colonialism.  Lacock Abbey, one of photography's most important historical sites, is included. 

The report notes: 

Lacock Abbey, Wiltshire
John Rock Grosett MP (c.1784–1866) was a plantation owner who leased Lacock Abbey during the 1820s. He was the son of Schaw Grosett (1741–1820), a merchant of Clifton, Bristol, and Mary Rock (1755–1807). John Rock Grosett married his cousin, Mary Spencer Shirley (1784–1820), and through his father, mother and wife received a combined inheritance of at least three Jamaican estates: Chepstow Pen and Spring Gardens Estate in St George, and Petersfield in St Thomas-inthe East. In 1822, he joined the Standing Committee of The London Society of West India Planters and Merchants and supported planters’ interests in Parliament. By 1831, Grosett had left Lacock to live in Jamaica, elected to the Assembly that year. In 1834, he and his lawyer received compensation totalling £16,143 1s. 9d. for 916 enslaved people. 

H J P Arnold notes in his biography of William Henry Fox Talbot (p. 45-46)  that Grosset surrendered the lease to Lacock Abbey in 1827 and it was made ready for a partial reoccupation by Talbot and the Fieldings, including Talbot's mother, Lady Elizabeth, and his sisters. Lacock itself is unlikely to have benefited directly from Grosset's occupation and there is no suggestion that Henry Talbot or his immediate family profited from slavery or colonialism, other than from Grosset's rental income.     

The full report can be read here: https://nt.global.ssl.fastly.net/documents/colionialism-and-historic-slavery-report.pdf

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12201139501?profile=originalPlatinotype: Making Photographs in Platinum and Palladium with the Contemporary Printing-out Process describes the mechanisms and chemistry of platinum/palladium printing in safe and practical ways. Clearly presented formulae allow the printer to work with platinum, palladium, or varying combinations of both. The printed-out image appears fully during exposure, and only requires simple and safe steps for clearing to a stable, archival state.

Pradip Malde and Mike Ware explain what makes the image, how all necessary components are prepared and used, and the kind of paper and negative needed to make prints. More than just a technical manual, the book underscores the authors' belief that printing is a creative, scientific, and philosophic way of working. The book presents an outstanding collection of prints by over forty artists, all made with this printing-out process. The artists' notes and comments offer insights into their methods and thinking, and a large number of full-page reproductions serve as a valuable reference to the aspiring printer.

Platinotype: Making Photographs in Platinum and Palladium with the Contemporary Printing-out Process 
Pradip Malde and Mike Ware
Rputledge / Focal Press
ISBN 9780367415952

£42.99 (soft), £120 (hard), 304 Pages 177 Color Illustrations,
December 21, 2020 Forthcoming by Routledge

See more here.

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12201144099?profile=originalThe Kraszna-Krausz Foundation has announced the two winners of its annual Photography and Moving Image Book Awards. Chicago-based artist LaToya Ruby Frazier has won the Photography Book Award for her eponymous book LaToya Ruby Frazier (Mousse Publishing & Mudam Luxembourg), which brings together three photographic series that comment on racial discrimination, poverty, post-industrial decline and its human costs.

Hannah Frank has posthumously been awarded the Moving Image Book Award for Frame by Frame: A Materialist Aesthetics of Animated Cartoons (University of California Press). In this book, Frank takes a frame by frame look at the laborious process behind the pre-digital processes of cartoon-making, enriching understandings of the Golden Age of animation.

In lieu of a physical awards ceremony, the 2020 winning titles will be showcased in a free digital event in partnership with The Photographers’ Gallery at the end of September, featuring conversations about the two winning titles, which will be open to the public online.

Artist and Editor Talks – Kraszna-Krausz Book Awards 2020 showcase
30 September 2020 [Time TBC]
The Photographers’ Gallery - live streamed event.
RSVP via: https://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/whats-on/talks-and-events/kraszna-krausz-book-awards-2020

More information on the work of the Foundation can be found online at kraszna-krausz.org.uk

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12201143271?profile=originalThe Hasselblad camera used by Iain Macmillan (1938-2006) to photograph The Beatles' 1969 Abbey Road album cover is being offered for auction by Bonhams on 13 October 2020. The Hasseblad 500C camera comes with its Zeiss Planar 80mm /2.8 lens and the viewfinder screen is still marked up with lines outlining the Abbey Road crossing.

Accompanying the lot is a  Zeiss Distagon 50mm f/4 lens; a tripod; a number of accessories including filters; lightmetres; and a black Nikkormat camera with four interchangeable lenses; all housed in an aluminium camera case labelled IAIN MACMILLAN, and accompanied by a black and white photograph of Iain with the Hasselblad camera around his neck.  It is estimated at £2000-2500. 

The lot is offered by the Iain Macmillan Archive.  Having met John Lennon at the Indica Gallery with Yoko Ono in 1966, Lennon later invited Macmillan to photograph the Beatles for the cover of their final album 'Abbey Road'. Given the Beatles recorded most of their music at the EMI Studios on Abbey Road, St John's Wood, London, they decided to name their last album after the road. Armed with a sketch Paul McCartney had given him a couple of days before of what the picture should look like, Iain knew he didn't have long to get the right shot for the world's most famous band.

On 8th August 1969, at around 11:30 am, a hired policeman stopped the traffic, Iain climbed up a large stepladder in the middle of Abbey Road and took just six pictures of the Beatles crossing the street. In approx 10 minutes Iain shot the band in various orders, but it was frame no.5 that was used for the cover of the album - the only photo where all four of them are striding in perfect formation.

See: https://www.bonhams.com/auctions/25996/lot/185/

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12201142490?profile=originalThere was a paradigm shift in the way photography was taught in Britain in the 1960/70s. In How Change Happens: Photography Education and Society May McWilliams uses four colleges - Derby College/Trent Poly, Newport College, London College of Printing, Regent Street Polytechnic -  as case studies to illustrate the change. Oral history accounts of the main players bring the story to life. She sets the changes in photographic education within the broader context of changes in higher education and society.  

Another shift is taking place now. In the final chapter she considers the challenges for photography educators today and draws parallels with the 1970s.

How Change Happens: Photography, Education and Society
May McWilliams, with a foreword by Dr Michael Pritchard
September 2020
ISBN: 978-1-71-538597-2
£27.95, 166 pages with 33 illustrations
Available through Amazon

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Fotografiska London is no more...for now

12201141691?profile=originalFotografiska London, the Museum of Photography, which was originally due to open in 2018 has been cancelled as the investment group behind it, Fotografiska London Ltd / AB, has ended its efforts to open at the Whitechapel High Street location. Originally scheduled to open in 2018, and then postponed, uncertainty around Brexit, coupled with current COVID-19 concerns, have now made it untenable for the London-based licensee to successfully establish a franchise.  The earlier delays suggest that issues around the financing predate COVID-19.

Fotografiska International sees London as a leading cultural city, and will evaluate other opportunities in London directly in conjunction with real estate partners.

Footgrafiska's other locations in Stockholm, Tallinn, and most recently in New York, continue as before. Fotografiska in Stockholm, which was founded in 2010, stages between 20 and 25 large-scale exhibitions per year and attracts some 500,000 visitors per year. Part of its mission is “inspiring a more conscious world” through its photography exhibitions and programming.

See: https://www.fotografiska.com/london/

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12201135875?profile=originalLet Us Now Praise Famous Women: Discovering the work of Female Photographers is an online conference being held on 24 October as part of Photo Oxford. It will explore the critical work of women writing about, collecting, and curating photography by women.

Key questions include how women’s voices are heard in the history and criticism of photography, the influence of the feminist movement on women photographers’ careers, and the role of museums in shaping the legacies of women photographers. The day also foregrounds strategies for emerging photographers to find themselves in a supportive network of ideas and practice.

Speakers include Val Williams, Patrizia di Bello, Anna Fox, Fiona Rogers, and others. 

Attendance is free. Booking and the programme can be seen here: https://visit.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/event/let-us-now-praise-famous-women

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