Our collection

Phil Boot, collection manager for the Ray Harryhausen Project, explores why Medusa is one of the most recognisable characters in model animation cinema history.

Thomas Galifot from the Musée d’Orsay recently visited our archives to research female photographers from 1839–1945 for a Paris exhibition.

Iain Logie Baird looks through our collection to find out what it can tell us about past predictions of the future of television, and what those predictions might mean now.

John Hinde was a pioneer of colour photography in Britain. Some of his work has just gone on display at the Photographers’ Gallery’s exhibition Mass Observation: This is Your Photo.

As we congratulate Chris Froome for his Tour de France win, Colin Harding investigates the surprising link between cycling and photography.

Colin recently visited Vienna to bring back photographs by Roger Fenton that we’d loaned to the Leopold Museum for their ‘Clouds: Fleeting Worlds’ exhibition.

This year is the bicentenary of the birth of Rejlander, the flamboyant and mysterious photographer who pioneered the painstaking technique of combination printing.

In our latest post about dating your old family photographs, Colin Harding shows you how to identify cartes de visite—an ubiquitous collectable in the 19th century.

Kieron Casey learns about one of the pioneers of early cinema, George Albert Smith, and has a humbling experience in our archives.

As Tate Britain prepares to open a new exhibition of L.S. Lowry’s industrial landscapes, we look at scenes of northern urban life in our collection.

One of the most important figures in photographic publishing—we even named a research room after him in recognition of his contribution to photography and cinematography.

We may have been dealt a blow with the promise of rain this weekend here in Bradford, but there’s plenty of summer fun to be found in our collection.