November 2013 Blog Posts (26)

Museums and Heritage takes a look at The National Media Museum/Science Museum's Media Space and how it was realised. Read the …

Leonard Joel auctions in Australia is to auction the Parekh Collection of International Photographs on 15 December 2013. The collection of Dinesh Parekh covers photography from the 1840s to the modern period including such names as Le Seq, Fenton, Cameron, Cartier-Bresson, Halsman, Kertesz, Penn and many others. 

Dr Dinesh Parekh is a retired psychologist, born…

Media Space is an arts-led gallery in the Science Museum, whiched opened in September 2013. It is a collaboration between the Science Museum and the National Media Museum. It is our platform for photography, art and science. It will be unique in London as an experimental inter-disciplinary programme that re-examines traditional divisions and identifies new relationships…

A new book by David Bruce tells the true story of John Henry Greatrex (1827-76), photographer, thief, convict, actor, grocer, bankrupt, preacher, adulterer, absconder and counterfeiter, who had a colourfully disreputable life, despite his entirely respectable Victorian family background.

His dubious career took him from England to Australia, Scotland and America –…

Achievers will be among those honoured at the University of Derby's annual Awards Ceremonies taking place on 15-17 January 2014. The University will honour people who've risen to the heights of their profession and will join more than 4,000 students graduating in degree, postgraduate and other higher education courses. Amongst those to be recognised is Emeritus Professor…

Landscapes of Sri Lanka - Early Photography in Ceylon. From the mid-19th century on, Ceylon, now known as Sri Lanka, was an exotic destination that many a world traveller yearned to visit.

Starting in the 1860s, a number of photographic studios established themselves on the island, producing…

A Leica digital camera custom-made by Jonathan (Jony) Ive the British-born Vice President of Design at Apple Inc and Marc Newson for the (RED) Auction 2013. The camera was an edition of 01/01 and sold for a record price of USD 1,805,000 - a world auction record price for a digital camera. A prototype UR Leica made US$2.8 million in…

The Photo Museum Province of Antwerp (FotoMuseum Provincie Antwerpen - FoMu) has recently given the kick off for a photographic heritage project “DAGUERREOBASE “ that is supported by the European Commission. The project’s ambitious goal is to collect over 25.000 images from all over Europe and their descriptions of European-style historical daguerreotypes and related…

Marc Boulay writes...Here is a blog/article written about our Photographic Books Collection which may be of interest. It was written by Liz Shannon one of our Photographic History PhD graduates who was contracted to work with us over the summer on this material.…

I am very interested in tracing any surviving photographs of George Love, visual representations of the exterior or interior of his shop in 81 Bunhill Row, any stock catalogues of prints and paintings for sale that Love published,  or any information about his surviving business records, including stock books.  I am also looking for historic photographs of Bunhill Row prior to WWII, ideally from the Victorian period. I have consulted all the standard archives and local history centres and…

LOS ANGELES—Queen Victoria’s devotion to photography will be on display in A Royal Passion: Queen Victoria and Photography, February 4–June 8, 2014 at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center. With important loans held in the Royal Collection, generously lent by Her Majesty The Queen, shown alongside masterpieces from the Getty Museum, the exhibition displays…

This two-day conference taking place 20-21 June 2014 - will explore how collectivities of photography such as camera clubs, photographic societies, commercial photographic studios, and other groups of practitioners produced knowledge about world phenomena, about local and historical events, new technologies, visual practices and techniques, as well as about photographic…

12 November 2013 – Royal Museums Greenwich (RMG) today acquired a world renowned and nationally significant collection of photographic and archive material. The Gibson archive presents one of the most graphic and emotive depictions of shipwrecks, lifesaving and its aftermath produced in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The material was acquired at the Sotheby's…

The National Media Museum, Bradford, has redefined its mission statement following the events of the summer which saw it being a candidate for closure before being reprieved. The museum's stated mission is to: explore the science, technology and art of the still and moving image and its impact on our lives. 

The statement is simple, clear and easy to understand and encapsulates its objectives removing some of the unnecessary baggage that had been added to its…

George Eastman House announced today the appointment of Lisa Hostetler, PhD, as Curator-in-Charge of its Department of Photography. She will assume this role prior to year-end. 

Hostetler brings almost 20 years of academic and museum experience to her new position with George Eastman House. She is currently the McEvoy Family Curator for Photography at the…

The National Media Museum is seeking a dynamic, creative and results-driven communications specialist to fulfil our (part time) Senior Marketing Executive job share role. As Senior Marketing Executive you will make a significant contribution to the realisation of our ambition of becoming the best Museum Group in the world. You will work with the Communications Manager…

Following your mention of Mrs. Osmond's new book on her ancestor Victor Prout, may I use the hospitality of these columns to point interested readers to a recent post on francishodgson.com?

Thanks.   http://bit.ly/1aF8TGD

Bonhams' auction of Leica and Classic Cameras on 22 November in Hong Kong includes two very rare Leica Luxus models, one of which is accompanied by the even rare Luxus carrying case. 

Following the huge success of the inaugural auction of Leica cameras held by Bonhams Hong Kong in November 2012 where a world record of HK$7,460,000 was achieved for a Leica Luxus I, The…

Bonhams is to sell a Williamson New Type P.14 hand held aircraft camera, flown over Mount Everest on the 1933 Houston Expedition. The camera is included in a sale of Travel and Exploration on 4 December 2013. It is accompanied by paperwork and provenance and is estimated at £2000-4000.

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A Research Seminar given by David Campany in the history of photography is taking place on 13 November. Admission is open to everyone.  ‘With photography the essence is done very quickly with a flash of the mind, and with a machine. I think too that photography is editing, editing after the taking. After knowing what to take you have to do the editing’. So said…