Photographs from the Royal Photographic Society Collection

Various

National Media Museum

1826-1910

The collection was formed as a record of the Society's history and a history of photography. It covers the period from pre-photography, including works by William H F Talbot, Roger Fenton, Henry Peach Robinson, Julia Margaret Cameron and British and American secession photography. In addition to approximately 270,000 photographs supported by the Art Fund grant the collection also includes photographic equipment, negatives, books etc.

• Artists Include:
• Julia Margaret Cameron
• William Henry Fox Talbot
• Roger Fenton
• David Octavius Hill
• Henry Peach Robinson
• Francis Frith
• Paul Strand
• Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodgson
• Alfred Buckham
• Felice Beato
• Eadweard Muybridge
• Hugh Welch Diamond

• Medium: positives & negatives & heliographs & salt prints & glass negatives
• Art Fund Grant: £342000 ( Total: £4,500,000)
• ArtFunded in: 2003
• Vendor: Royal Photographic Society

Provenance

Largely acquired through gifts by members of the Royal Photographic Society.

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