V&A visit, inspirations from photography exhibitions

THE PHOTOGRAPHY COLLECTION

History of photography from its invention until the 1970s. 

Benjamin Brecknell Turner

Three fishermen 1850 paper negative

 

Prints were made by waxing a negative, to make it translucent, placing it in contract with a second sheet of sensitised paper and leaving it in the sun.

After the war: personal vision 

Documentation that could communicated a personal vision 

Bill Brandt

Elephant and castle underground station 1940 (London blackouts)

Brandt's images of people taking shelter in the underground act both as documents of the war and as testament to his keen eye for the uncanny and the surreal. 

John Reginald Homer Weaver 

Avila Cathedral interior, Spain 1920 

Captured the luminosity and detail od interiors by continuing to use platinum prints, a form popular in the 1890s. He followed the aesthetics of Frederick Evans, the premier photographer of church photography, who advised 'try to record of emotions rather than a piece of topography'.

 (photographed by me, inspired by the artist. V&A window.  )
No picture found of the original work by the artist.