The biggest threat to the wellbeing of photographs is you! Most damage—especially to more fragile supports such as glass and paper—has occurred through human negligence or ignorance.
The New Chrysotype Process is so named in honour of Sir John Herschel who, in his classic paper of 1842 (1), first coined the term chrysotype to describe the photochemical production of an image in colloidal gold metal.
Terry King gives an overview of the gum bichromate process, with a step-by-step guide to printing.
One of the most effective ways to date a photograph is also one of the simplest: look at what the subjects are wearing. These contacts and resources may also be helpful.
Television is such an intimate part of most of our lives that any discussion of its origins automatically incites a host of personal emotional responses uncommon to other inventions.
When Jimmy Wales founded the website Wikipedia in 2001, he envisaged that it would ultimately become a digital brain representing the sum of all human knowledge.
As we prepare to open our new exhibition The Lives of Great Photographers, we have asked museum staff and visitors the question: who do you think is a great photographer—and why?
First coined by book publisher Tim O’Reilly in 2004, the term ‘Web 2.0’ has become a popular phrase to encompass the new generation of internet applications that enable content sharing and collaboration.
Use our photographic expertise to learn how to care for your own collections with these basic conservation guidelines.
In the digital age, advertisers and marketers have had to devise new methods to reach audiences with their product messages.
The first public demonstration of television in the UK took place in 1926. Trace the development of TV from then up to the 2010s with our timeline.
The history of recording using magnetism dates back almost one hundred years, and by the start of the Second World War had advanced to the stage where the BBC were regularly using a Marconi-Stille recorder.