A couple of weeks ago, some of our Public Programmes and Collections team attended the opening week of Les Rencontres d’Arles, an international photography festival in France.
From the very first photographic images to the work of contemporary photographers, photography is one of our major areas of expertise and is represented throughout our collection.
On 4 July 1862 Rev. Charles Lutwidge Dodgson and Rev. Robinson Duckworth took three little girls—Lorina, Alice and Edith Liddell—on a rowing trip up the Isis in Oxford.
The man who revolutionised the world of hairstyling with his geometric ‘wash and wear’ cuts has died at the age of 84.
Beth Hughes takes an in-depth look at a Richard Billingham image from our latest exhibition.
Anna takes a behind-the-scenes look at our latest exhibition.
Installing a new exhibition can involve many hurdles—it’s not all just hanging pictures on a wall—and today we tackled quite a challenge.
Looking for photographs of your town 50 years ago, David Attenborough in his youth, or your emigrant ancestors? There’s a good chance the image you’re searching for is in the Daily Herald Archive.
It is with great sadness that we have heard of the death of legendary photographer Eve Arnold.
In a how-to video produced for the museum, photographer Simon Roberts takes us through the process of photographing with a 5×4 plate camera.
Find out how to identify, store and handle nitrate film, and how to spot signs of decomposition.
Curator of Photography Greg Hobson reviews Watabe Yukichi’s intriguing project A Criminal Investigation.
The second of two recent ‘Breakfast with the Artists’ events, on 3 October 2011, saw Greg Hobson in conversation with photographer Donovan Wylie.