To tie in with the opening of the National Library of Scotland's new display ‘Images of Italy, 1480-1900’, Professor Sandra Kemp,  Director of The Ruskin Museum and Research Centre at Lancaster University, will give a talk on the extraordinarily detailed work Ruskin took with daguerreotype photography between 1845 and 1858, described at the time as "the most marvellous invention of the century".

To book a free ticket…

RHS Lindley Collections, one of the finest horticultural libraries in the world, are undertaking a project to document the history of the internationally famous RHS Chelsea Flower Show. This exciting role focuses on cataloguing our historic photography collections relating to Chelsea with a view to making the collection accessible via the public catalogue.

The photography…

The Oberver newpaper today features part of a recent acquisition by the Bodleian Libraries showing indiginous Alaskans. The photographs were made around 1900 by several photographers, including Missouri-born Beverly Bennett Dobbs and two European emigrants to the US, HG Kaiser and Albert F Johnson, followed a gold rush to Nome, Alaska.

The photographs are part of the…

Autograph, the London venue with a mission  to champion the work of artists who use photography and film to highlight questions of race, representation, human rights and social justice, has added artwork to Art UK's website. Included is work from Joy Gregory, Sunil Gupta, Syd Shelton and Roti Fani-Kayode. Some 123 artworks have been added. Separately, Bindi Vora has been appointed senior…

UCL's School of European Languages, Culture and Society - Centre for Multidisciplinary and Intercultural Inquiry is hosting two events that will be of interest to BPH readers. 

• 22 May 2024 / Stereoscopic Vision in the Plantationocene from Debashree Mukherjee, Associate Professor at Columbia University
  This talk draws on my ongoing work towards a monograph titled "Tropical Machines: Extractive Media and Plantation Modernity.” I track 19th century…

We cordially invite you to the lecture from the cycle Collegium historiae artium, which will be given by Anthony Hamber (independent photographic historian, London) on the topic of The 1840s: Transformations in Reprographics.

In January 1839, when the photographic processes of Daguerre and Talbot were announced, there was an existing, mature, and extensive printing and reprographics industry in all industrialised countries. The most significant printing…