As part of Birmingham Heritage Week there will be a display Taking and displaying the photograph which will show one hundred years of cameras made in Birmingham, and how the city manufactured ways to show and display the resulting images. It will be an opportunity to see mahogany wood and brass plate cameras through to cheap plastic snapshot cameras as well as the magic lanterns, projectors, photograph albums, frames and the images themselves that the cameras would have taken.
Library of Birmingham, Level 4, Heritage Learning Space Centenary Square, B1 2ND
16-18 September, from 1100-1700 daily
Free
https://birminghamheritageweek.co.uk/
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