On 19 November 2009, we’ll play host to an intriguing event with the two authors of A Village Lost and Found, a new book dedicated to the stereoscopic imagery of 19th century photographer TR Williams.
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.
William Henry Fox Talbot’s The Pencil of Nature was a photographic milestone, and we’re taking steps to republish this seminal book.
Around 150 people descended on the museum to talk, teach and learn about all things photography at the sold-out Photocamp event.
We’ve been members of Flickr Commons for one year today—here’s a look back at some of our most-loved images.
Meet Julien Faure-Conorton, whose research in our archives uncovered a previously unseen Robert Demachy photograph.
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’.