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However, if you happen to be in the Netherlands, near the Hague, anytime from now until 23rd April, you can catch a Dutch 'version' which they have called 'Photography' which covers the development of photography, from pioneer to the Dutch New Photography movement.
The first image produced using the camera obscura principle (1545), the original camera belonging to painter George Hendrik Breitner, daguerreotypes over 150 years old: the University of Leiden’s photographic collection is unique in many ways. It is both the oldest and the largest museum photography collection in the country, telling the whole story of the emergence and development of photography. It also includes work by contemporary photographers, and ‘classic’ works by photographers like Alfred Stieglitz and Diane Arbus. The largest ever exhibition of pieces from this unique collection can be seen at The Hague Museum of Photography until 23rd April.
The University of Leiden’s photography collection represents the history, development and different forms of the medium. It includes examples of virtually all photographic techniques, rare objects and artistic high points: the early experiments of photographic pioneers like William Fox Talbot, for example, and the collages of Paul Citroen. Artistic ambition is illustrated by pieces from Piet Zwart and Paul Schuitema’s Dutch New Photography movement, and photographers like Emmy Andriesse and Cas Oorthuys represent the engagement of documentary photographers. The collection focuses on Dutch photography in an international context, and so includes work by great photographers like Julia Margaret Cameron, Edward Curtis and Richard Avedon.
The exhibition will feature a special selection from the collection, chosen for its visual quality. See 'Events' for venue info etc.
With thousands of highly significant items encompassing television, cinematography, photography and new media, the National Media Museum’s diverse collections are of national importance. You’ll help us protect them for future generations by administering recent acquisitions, formalising records of objects and arranging indemnities and commercial insurance. You will also contribute to the delivery of exciting temporary exhibitions by effectively organising loans in and out.
Required Skills:
With a good track record in a similar environment, you’ll have experience of co-ordinating collections management procedures, completing relevant documentation and using a collections database. You should be a real team player with superb attention to detail too, even under pressure! If you can also add great communication, organisational and problem solving skills, you’ll have exactly what we’re looking for.
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Interested? Please email your CV and covering letter to: recruitment@nationalmediamuseum.org.uk
We regret that we can only respond to successful applicants.
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Assistant Registrar
14.4 hours per week (fixed term - 23 months)
Bradford
£16,605 per annum (pro rata) (£6,642)
Closing date: 8th February 2010
The annual re-display which opens on Friday, 14 May will present some of the new works and will focus on showcasing photographs from the Collection dating from the 1970s to today. The exhibition will be accompanied by a display titled The Other Britain Revisited: The New Society Collection of Photographs, 1972 to 1982. New Society, a publication of the 1960s and 1970s, aimed to further research in the burgeoning fields of sociology and social work. The display will include photographs by leading names in recent British photography, including Martin Parr, Daniel Meadows, Euan Duff and Brian Griffin. It will also feature issues of
New Society magazine alongside the prints to provide a sense of the photographs’ original context.
The V&A Photographs department, in collaboration with the Black Cultural Archives (BCA) has been awarded funding by the Heritage Lottery Fund to collect photographs related to the black British experience. The aim is both to collect the work of earlier documentary photographers active in the 1950s to 1980s not currently represented in the Collection, and to build upon the existing holdings of work by more recent practitioners. This funding will also facilitate an oral history archive and an exhibition to be held at BCA.
