Two centuries of photo history on show
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CHARTING two centuries of photographic history from the early pioneers to digital smartphone snappers, London’s Victoria and Albert Museum opened its new Photography Center.
The exhibition “tells the story of photography as a way of collecting the world, from the medium’s invention to today,” V&A director Tristram Hunt said.
Museum-goers enter the galleries through an installation of more than 150 cameras spanning 160 years. Visitors can handle cameras from throughout the ages, from an 1820s camera obscura, through a 1920s Kodak No.2 Brownie to a 1930s Leica II rangefinder and a 1970s Polaroid 1000 instant camera.
The exhibition includes photojournalism, displaying the realities of war overseas. The center includes a project space filled with new works by German photographer Thomas Ruff, digitally reinterpreting Linnaeus Tripe’s 1850s paper negatives of India and Burma, bringing modern developing techniques to landmark originals.
The museum’s archive of more than 800,000 photographs is now one of the world’s largest and most important collections of historic and contemporary pictures. A second section of the center, due to open in 2022, will include teaching space, a browsing library and a studio for photographers’ residencies. The museum is also looking to bring photography exhibitions from its expanded collection to Shanghai and across China.
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