Questioning the true age of photography, the exhibition will open with some of the first known Victorian images by William Henry Fox Talbot, positioning his experimentation with paper negatives as the very beginning of photography. It will also introduce a key selection of cyanotypes by one of the first women photographers, Anna Atkins (1799-1871), who created camera-less photograms of the algae specimens found along the south coast of England. Displayed publicly for the first time, these works highlight the ground-breaking accuracy of Atkins’ approach, and the remarkably contemporary appearance of her work which has inspired many artists and designers.
The exhibition will also foreground the artists who produced unprecedented photographic art in the twentieth century without artistic intention. The medium allowed for quick documentation of nature’s infinite specimens, making it an important tool for scientists and botanists such as the German photographer and teacher Karl Blossfeldt (1865-1932) who captured close-up views of plant specimens in order to study and share an understanding of nature’s ‘architecture’. A selection of Blossfeldt’s ‘study aids’ will be displayed alongside work by the proud gardener Charles Jones, who used a glass plate camera to keep a meticulously illustrated record of his finest crops. Seen together for the first time, the two artists will be examined for their pragmatic approach that set them apart from the romanticised style of their time.
Nobuyoshi Araki (1940); Anna Atkins (1799 - 1871); Alois Auer (1813 - 1869); Sir Cecil Beaton (1904 - 1980); Karl Blossfeldt (1865 - 1932); Adolphe Braun (1812 - 1877); Jan Brueghel I (1568 - 1625); Mat Collishaw (1966); Imogen Cunningham (1883 - 1976); Roger Fenton (1819 - 1869); Adam Fuss (1961); Ori Gersht (1967); Cecilia Glaisher (1828 - 1892); Joy Gregory (1959); William Henry Fox-Talbot (1800 - 1877); John Frederick Herschel (1792 - 1871); Gyula Holics (1919 - 1989); Jan van Huysum (1682 - 1749); Henry Irving (1838 - 1905); Charles Jones (1866 - 1959); Sarah Jones (1959); André Kertész (1894 - 1985); Nick Knight (1958); Lou Landauer (1897); Richard Learoyd (1966); Pradip Malde (1957); Robert Mapplethorpe (1946 - 1989); John Moffat (1819 - 1894); Sarah Moon (1941); James Mudd (1821 - 1906); Kazumasa Ogawa (1860 - 1930); [Enami Nobukuni] T. Enami (1859 - 1929); Albert G. Richards (1917 - 2008); Charles T. Scowen; [Maurice Scheltens & Liesbeth Abbenes] Scheltens & Abbenes; Helen Sear (1955); Edward Steichen (1879 - 1973); Josef Sudek (1896 - 1976); Lorenzo Vitturi (1980); Edward Weston (1886 - 1958); Walter Bentley Woodbury (1834 - 1885);
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Jean Eugène Auguste Atget (1857 - 1927); George Grantham Bain (1865 - 1914); George N. Barnard (1819 - 1902); Ernest James Bellocq (1873 - 1949); Auguste-Adolphe Bertsch (1813 - 1871); Hippolyte Blancard (1844 - 1924); Alfred Capel-Cure (1826 - 1896); Clements; Georges Demenÿ (1850 - 1917); Hugh Welch Diamond (1809 - 1886); Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne (1806 - 1875); William England (1816 - 1896); Roger Fenton (1819 - 1869); Arnold Genthe (1869 - 1942); Alfred A. Hart (1816 - 1908); Lewis Wickes Hine (1874 - 1940); Robert Howlett (1831 - 1858); Darius Reynold Kinsey (1869 - 1945); Roger de La Fresnaye (1885 - 1925); Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894 - 1986); Maurice Moritz Loewy (1833 - 1907); Kazimir Severinovich Malevich (1879 - 1935); Étienne-Jules Marey (1830 - 1904); James Mudd (1821 - 1906); Eadweard James Muybridge (1830 - 1904); Georgia O'Keeffe (1887 - 1986); Herbert George Ponting (1871 - 1935); Pierre Henri Puiseux (1855 - 1928); William Hermann Rau (1855 - 1920); Jacob August Riis (1849 - 1914); Andrew Joseph Russell (1829 - 1902); Herman Schervee (1867 - 1923); Adolphe Terris (1820 - 1900); Félix Thiollier (1842 - 1914); Charles Thurston Thompson (1816 - 1868); John Thomson (1837 - 1921); John Adams Whipple (1822 - 1891); Joseph Janvier Woodward (1833 - 1884); Willard Worden (1873 - 1946); R.J. Waters & Co.;
Bérénice Abbott (1898 - 1991); Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984); Robert Adams (1937); Josef Albers (1888 - 1976); [Leopoldo 1832–1865, Romualdo 1830–1891, Giuseppe 1836–1891] Fratelli Alinari; Manuel Álvarez-Bravo (1902 - 2002); Paul Lewis Anderson (1880 - 1956); Ottomar Anschütz (1846 - 1907); Diane Arbus (1923 - 1971); Charles Dudley Arnold (1844 - 1917); Jean Eugène Auguste Atget (1857 - 1927); Charles Hippolyte Aubry (1811 - 1877); Richard Avedon (1923 - 2004); Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858 - 1954); Édouard Denis Baldus (1813 - 1889); George N. Barnard (1819 - 1902); Tina Barney (1945); Hippolyte Bayard (1801 - 1887); Herbert Bayer (1900 - 1985); Felice A. Beato (1832 - 1909); Bernd (1931-2007) & Hilla (1934-2015) Becher; Richard M.A. Benson (1943 - 2017); Zeke Berman (1951); Auguste-Adolphe Bertsch (1813 - 1871); Margaret Bourke-White (1904 - 1971); Mathew B. Brady (1823 - 1896); Bill Brandt (1904 - 1983); [Gyula Halász] Brassaï (1899 - 1984); Francis Joseph Bruguière (1879 - 1945); Harry M. Callahan (1912 - 1999); Julia Margaret Cameron (1815 - 1879); Alfred Capel-Cure (1826 - 1896); Paul Caponigro (1932); Etienne Carjat (1828 - 1906); Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898); Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908 - 2004); Charles Clifford (1819 - 1863); Jane Clifford; Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882 - 1966); Albert Collard; William Collie; Dmitri Constantin; John G. Crace (1809 - 1889); Robert Cumming (1943); Francis Edmund Currey (1814 - 1896); Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868 - 1952); Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (1787 - 1851); Roy DeCarava (1919 - 2009); Louis de Clercq (1836 - 1901); Adolph Gayne Baron de Meyer (1868 - 1946); Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917); Philip Henry Delamotte (1821 - 1889); Louis Jules Duboscq-Soleil (1817 - 1886); Maxime du Camp (1822 - 1894); Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne (1806 - 1875); Louis-Emile Durandelle (1839 - 1917); George Eastman (1854 - 1932); Josef Maria Eder (1855 - 1944); Harold Eugene 'Doc' Edgerton (1903 - 1990); Edwards and Son; William Eggleston (1939); Harry C. Ellis (1857 - 1928); Peter Henry Emerson (1856 - 1936); Hugo Erfurth (1874 - 1948); Max Ernst (1891 - 1976); Elliott Erwitt (1928); Frederick Henry Evans (1853 - 1943); Walker Evans (1903 - 1975); Roger Fenton (1819 - 1869); W. Grancel Fitz (1894 - 1963); Joan Fontcuberta (1955); E. Fox; Robert Frank (1924 - 2019); Lee Friedlander (1934); Francis Frith (1822 - 1898); Francis Galton (1822 - 1911); Frank Gilbreth (1868 - 1924); L.S. Glover; Frank Gohlke (1942); John Beasley Greene (1832 - 1856); Jan Groover (1943 - 2012); Yakov Guminer (1896 - 1942); Lady Clementine Hawarden (1822 - 1865); John [Helmut Herzfeld] Heartfield (1891 - 1968); Robert Heinecken (1931 - 2006); [David Octavius Hill 1804-1870 & Robert Adamson 1821-1989] Hill & Adamson; John Karl Hillers (1843 - 1925); Lewis Wickes Hine (1874 - 1940); David Hockney (1937); Fallon Horne (1814 - 1858); Robert Howlett (1831 - 1858); Frank Hurley (1885 - 1962); Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864 - 1952); Gertrude [Gertrude Stanton] Käsebier (1852 - 1934); André Kertész (1894 - 1985); Chris Killip (1946); William Klein (1928 - 2022); Josef Koudelka (1938); Heinrich Kühn (1866 - 1944); Dorothea Lange (1895 - 1965); Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894 - 1986); Gustave Le Gray (1820 - 1884); Henri Le Secq (1818 - 1880); Helen Levitt (1913 - 2009); El [Lazar Markovich] Lissitzky (1890 - 1941); Robert MacPherson (1811 - 1872); Felix H. [Hans Felix Sigismund Baumann] Man (1893 - 1985); [Emmanuel Rudinski] Man Ray (1890 - 1976); Étienne-Jules Marey (1830 - 1904); Paul Martin (1864 - 1942); Charles Marville (1813 - 1879); Maul & Polyblank; William Mayfield; Ray K. Metzker (1931); Edward H. Mitchell; Tina Modotti (1896 - 1942); László Móhóly-Nagy (1895 - 1946); Daidō Moriyama (1938); James Mudd (1821 - 1906); Martin Munkácsi (1896 - 1963); Eadweard James Muybridge (1830 - 1904); [Gaspard-Félix Tournachon] Nadar (1820 - 1910); Charles Nègre (1820 - 1880); William Newton (1785 - 1869); Horace Nicholls (1867 - 1941); Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (1765 - 1833); Nicholas Nixon (1947); William McFarlane Notman (1826 - 1891); Timothy H. O'Sullivan (1840 - 1882); [H. Pearson & E.W. Wade] Pearson & Wade; Irving Penn (1917 - 2009); Albert Pfeiffer; Eliot Furness Porter (1901 - 1990); William Pumphrey (1817 - 1905); Robert Rauschenberg (1925 - 2008); Henri-Victor Regnault (1810 - 1878); O.G. [Oscar Gustave] Rejlander (1813 - 1875); Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897 - 1966); Jacob August Riis (1849 - 1914); Louis-Rémy Robert (1810 - 1882); Henry Peach Robinson (1830 - 1901); Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko (1891 - 1956); Judith Joy Ross (1946); Auguste Salzmann (1824 - 1872); Lucas Samaras (1936 - 2024); August Sander (1876 - 1964); Michael Schmidt (1945 - 2014); Charles Rettew Sheeler (1883 - 1965); Cindy Sherman (1954); Pierre-Charles Simart (1806 - 1857); Aaron Siskind (1903 - 1991); Charles Norman Sladen (1858 - 1949); W. Eugene Smith (1918 - 1978); Albert Sands Southworth (1811 - 1894); Edward Steichen (1879 - 1973); Ralph Steiner (1899 - 1986); Alfred Stieglitz (1864 - 1946); William James Stillman (1828 - 1901); Paul Strand (1890 - 1976); John Stuart; Oskar Suck (1845 - 1904); Hugo Summerville (1885 - 1948); Thomas Sutton (1819 - 1875); William Henry Fox-Talbot (1800 - 1877); Félix Teynard (1817 - 1892); Shōmei Tōmatsu (1930 - 2012); Linneaus Tripe (1822 - 1902); Benjamin Brecknell Turner (1815 - 1894); Hugo van Werden (1836 - 1911); Pierre-Amédée Varin (1818 - 1883); Adam Clark Vroman (1856 - 1916); Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987); Carleton Eugene Watkins (1829 - 1916); Hans [Johann Josef] Watzek (1848 - 1903); Charles Leander Weed (1824 - 1903); [Arthur Fellig] Weegee (1899 - 1968); William Wegman (1943); Edward Weston (1886 - 1958); Clarence Hudson White (1871 - 1925); Minor White (1908 - 1976); Garry Winogrand (1928 - 1984);
Nicholas Nixon (1947); Bérénice Abbott (1898 - 1991); Ansel Adams (1902 - 1984); Robert Adams (1937); Josef Albers (1888 - 1976); Paul Lewis Anderson (1880 - 1956); Ottomar Anschütz (1846 - 1907); Diane Arbus (1923 - 1971); Charles Dudley Arnold (1844 - 1917); Jean Eugène Auguste Atget (1857 - 1927); Charles Hippolyte Aubry (1811 - 1877); Richard Avedon (1923 - 2004); Liberty Hyde Bailey (1858 - 1954); Édouard Denis Baldus (1813 - 1889); George N. Barnard (1819 - 1902); Tina Barney (1945); Hippolyte Bayard (1801 - 1887); Herbert Bayer (1900 - 1985); Felice A. Beato (1832 - 1909); Bernd (1931-2007) & Hilla (1934-2015) Becher; Richard M.A. Benson (1943 - 2017); Zeke Berman (1951); Auguste-Adolphe Bertsch (1813 - 1871); Margaret Bourke-White (1904 - 1971); Mathew B. Brady (1823 - 1896); Bill Brandt (1904 - 1983); [Gyula Halász] Brassaï (1899 - 1984); Francis Joseph Bruguière (1879 - 1945); Harry M. Callahan (1912 - 1999); Maxime du Camp (1822 - 1894); Alfred Capel-Cure (1826 - 1896); Paul Caponigro (1932); Etienne Carjat (1828 - 1906); Lewis Carroll (1832 - 1898); Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908 - 2004); Louis de Clercq (1836 - 1901); Charles Clifford (1819 - 1863); Jane Clifford; Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882 - 1966); Albert Collard; William Collie; Dmitri Constantin; John G. Crace (1809 - 1889); Robert Cumming (1943); Francis Edmund Currey (1814 - 1896); Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868 - 1952); Louis Jacques Mandé Daguerre (1787 - 1851); Roy DeCarava (1919 - 2009); Edgar Degas (1834 - 1917); Philip Henry Delamotte (1821 - 1889); Louis Jules Duboscq-Soleil (1817 - 1886); Guillaume-Benjamin Duchenne (1806 - 1875); Louis-Emile Durandelle (1839 - 1917); George Eastman (1854 - 1932); Josef Maria Eder (1855 - 1944); Harold Eugene 'Doc' Edgerton (1903 - 1990); Edwards and Son; William Eggleston (1939); Harry C. Ellis (1857 - 1928); Peter Henry Emerson (1856 - 1936); Hugo Erfurth (1874 - 1948); Max Ernst (1891 - 1976); Elliott Erwitt (1928); Frederick Henry Evans (1853 - 1943); Walker Evans (1903 - 1975); Roger Fenton (1819 - 1869); W. Grancel Fitz (1894 - 1963); Joan Fontcuberta (1955); E. Fox; William Henry Fox-Talbot (1800 - 1877); Robert Frank (1924 - 2019); [Leopoldo 1832–1865, Romualdo 1830–1891, Giuseppe 1836–1891] Fratelli Alinari; Lee Friedlander (1934); Francis Frith (1822 - 1898); Francis Galton (1822 - 1911); Frank Gilbreth (1868 - 1924); L.S. Glover; Frank Gohlke (1942); Gustave Le Gray (1820 - 1884); John Beasley Greene (1832 - 1856); Jan Groover (1943 - 2012); Yakov Guminer (1896 - 1942); Lady Clementine Hawarden (1822 - 1865); John [Helmut Herzfeld] Heartfield (1891 - 1968); Robert Heinecken (1931 - 2006); [David Octavius Hill 1804-1870 & Robert Adamson 1821-1989] Hill & Adamson; John Karl Hillers (1843 - 1925); Lewis Wickes Hine (1874 - 1940); David Hockney (1937); Fallon Horne (1814 - 1858); Robert Howlett (1831 - 1858); Frank Hurley (1885 - 1962); Frances Benjamin Johnston (1864 - 1952); André Kertész (1894 - 1985); Chris Killip (1946); Josef Koudelka (1938); Gertrude [Gertrude Stanton] Käsebier (1852 - 1934); Heinrich Kühn (1866 - 1944); Dorothea Lange (1895 - 1965); Jacques Henri Lartigue (1894 - 1986); Henri Le Secq (1818 - 1880); Helen Levitt (1913 - 2009); El [Lazar Markovich] Lissitzky (1890 - 1941); Robert MacPherson (1811 - 1872); Felix H. [Hans Felix Sigismund Baumann] Man (1893 - 1985); [Emmanuel Rudinski] Man Ray (1890 - 1976); Étienne-Jules Marey (1830 - 1904); Paul Martin (1864 - 1942); Charles Marville (1813 - 1879); Maul & Polyblank; William Mayfield; Ray K. Metzker (1931); Adolph Gayne Baron de Meyer (1868 - 1946); Edward H. Mitchell; Tina Modotti (1896 - 1942); László Móhóly-Nagy (1895 - 1946); Daidō Moriyama (1938); James Mudd (1821 - 1906); Martin Munkácsi (1896 - 1963); Eadweard James Muybridge (1830 - 1904); [Gaspard-Félix Tournachon] Nadar (1820 - 1910); William Newton (1785 - 1869); Horace Nicholls (1867 - 1941); Joseph Nicéphore Niépce (1765 - 1833); William McFarlane Notman (1826 - 1891); Charles Nègre (1820 - 1880); Timothy H. O'Sullivan (1840 - 1882); [H. Pearson & E.W. Wade] Pearson & Wade; Irving Penn (1917 - 2009); Albert Pfeiffer; Eliot Furness Porter (1901 - 1990); William Pumphrey (1817 - 1905); Robert Rauschenberg (1925 - 2008); Henri-Victor Regnault (1810 - 1878); O.G. [Oscar Gustave] Rejlander (1813 - 1875); Albert Renger-Patzsch (1897 - 1966); Jacob August Riis (1849 - 1914); Louis-Rémy Robert (1810 - 1882); Henry Peach Robinson (1830 - 1901); Aleksander Mikhailovich Rodchenko (1891 - 1956); Judith Joy Ross (1946); Auguste Salzmann (1824 - 1872); Lucas Samaras (1936 - 2024); August Sander (1876 - 1964); Michael Schmidt (1945 - 2014); Charles Rettew Sheeler (1883 - 1965); Cindy Sherman (1954); Pierre-Charles Simart (1806 - 1857); Aaron Siskind (1903 - 1991); Charles Norman Sladen (1858 - 1949); W. Eugene Smith (1918 - 1978); Albert Sands Southworth (1811 - 1894); Edward Steichen (1879 - 1973); Ralph Steiner (1899 - 1986); Alfred Stieglitz (1864 - 1946); William James Stillman (1828 - 1901); Paul Strand (1890 - 1976); John Stuart; Oskar Suck (1845 - 1904); Hugo Summerville (1885 - 1948); Thomas Sutton (1819 - 1875); Félix Teynard (1817 - 1892); Linneaus Tripe (1822 - 1902); Benjamin Brecknell Turner (1815 - 1894); Shōmei Tōmatsu (1930 - 2012); Pierre-Amédée Varin (1818 - 1883); Adam Clark Vroman (1856 - 1916); Andy Warhol (1928 - 1987); Carleton Eugene Watkins (1829 - 1916); Hans [Johann Josef] Watzek (1848 - 1903); Charles Leander Weed (1824 - 1903); [Arthur Fellig] Weegee (1899 - 1968); William Wegman (1943); Hugo van Werden (1836 - 1911); Edward Weston (1886 - 1958); Clarence Hudson White (1871 - 1925); Minor White (1908 - 1976); Garry Winogrand (1928 - 1984); Manuel Álvarez-Bravo (1902 - 2002);
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