Meet Julien Faure-Conorton, whose research in our archives uncovered a previously unseen Robert Demachy photograph.
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.
Once a year, our Reminiscence Sessions group goes on a trip to explore photographic collections beyond the museum. This year, the venue was the beautiful Harewood House.
Daimler AG have commissioned us to digitise a huge archive of car and motor racing photographs taken by Zoltán Glass.
Back in Bradford after travelling around the world on loan, this 150-year-old daguerreotype of the Moon is just one of our collection’s hidden treasures.
We’ve added new photographs to our Flickr Commons sets, including babies and animals—some cute and some distinctly not.
Famous for inventing the cinematograph and the autochrome, Auguste and Louis Lumière are among the most significant figures in film and photography history.
When photography was first introduced, a sense of wonder was tempered by disappointment that colours could not be reliably captured. The search for a solution became photography’s ‘Holy Grail’.