Birmingham and photography's history

[Michael Pritchard]

The Birmingham Post carries an interview with Peter James and a discussion about Birmingham's importance in photographic history in today's edition. The piece begins: Through October (6th-28th), the Birmingham School of Art's gothic splendour hosts a new exhibition, Perspectives, displaying images created by emerging and established photographers from Birmingham City University working with Chris Steele-Perkins, Magnum Photos, and representing one of the City's latest celebrations of an art form dating back to its official birth in 1839... The full article can be found at: http://blogs.birminghampost.net/business/2011/10/new-perspectives-on-birmingham.html and is worth a read.