Photography & Lens Media

This page is devoted to sites dealing with the history of photography and of photographers. For images and pictures visit the Image Collections page.

History of Photography

Exhibitions of the Royal Photographic Society, 1870-1915 - A research database of over 45,000 records from the annual exhibition catalogues of the Photographic Society, London, published between 1870 and 1915, scanned and digitized by staff at De Montfort University.

Picturing the Century - One hundred years of photography from the National Archives, including portfolios by Ansel Adams, Dorothea Lange, Walter Lubken, Lewis Hine, George W. Ackerman, Charles Fenno Jacobs and Danny Lyon.

Photographers

Cindy Sherman : Complete Untitled Film Stills - Exhibition from the Museum of Modern Art.

Walker Evans Revolutionises Documentary Photography - 'The objective of this project is to show how Walker Evans' photographs taken in the 1930's, portraying a realistic view of the poverty-stricken rural south, revolutionized the standards of documentary photography'.

Link to this page: http://www.richmond.ac.uk/s/1090.aspx