Knowledge Media Design's Photohistory links pagePhotographic history has only recently developed as a formal academic discipline in Britain and elsewhere, its progress restrained by the lack of comprehensive reference works and standard texts of the type that underpin art history and other scholarly subjects.
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At De Montfort University, in Knowledge Media Design we are developing a corpus of searchable, high quality, resources for researchers of 19th century photography working from primary materials such as exhibition catalogues and letters. Please click on the links in the list below to be taken to a short description of the site and a link to its home page. Photographs Exhibited in Britain, 1839 - 1865 
This is a research database containing individual records for over 20 000 photographic exhibits drawn from forty exhibition catalogues published between 1839 - 1865. It was created by Roger Taylor and originally published under the same title in book form by the National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa, 2002. The ephemeral checklists and catalogues that form the basis of this publication are rare and of limited access in the United Kingdom itself, and all the more scarce outside that country. By providing a single source that records the work exhibited by British and foreign photographers during the formative years of the development of the medium, Mr. Taylor has made a unique contribution to the history of photography. The volume will be welcomed by historians, custodians of photograph collections, dealers, collectors, libraries, and auction houses.  Roger Fenton's letters from the Crimea 
This website publishes faithful transcripts of letters sent by Roger Fenton to family and friends during his "Photographic Trip to the Crimea" in 1855. The venture is a collaborative project initiated by De Montfort University, using the two surviving letter books in the collections of the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center and The National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, now the National Media Museum. This is the first occasion that all twenty five letters have been published in full. Roger Fenton (1819-69), English, and one of the most influential and important photographers of the mid-19th century, exhibiting more widely and prolifically than any other of the period. His landscape and architectural studies were highly regarded and often referred to by critics as points of reference to which all other photographers should aspire.  Photographs Exhibited at the Royal Photographic Society 1870 - 1915 
This is a research database of over 45000 records from the annual exhibition catalogues of the Photographic Society, London, published between 1870 and 1915. It contains: detailed records of all the exhibits, plus information about exhibitors, judges, hanging and selecting committee members, photographs and companies; reproductions of all the catalogue pages; all the pictures of the photographs that were printed in the catalogues, plus some contemporary illustrations from the annual publication Photograms of the Year; reviews of the exhibitions from the annual publication Photograms of the Year; tools for refining, printing and exporting your search results.  The Correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot 
The Correspondence of William Henry Fox Talbot Project has prepared a comprehensive edition of the nearly 10,000 letters to and from Talbot (1800-1877), the Wiltshire polymath best known for his invention of photography. Draft transcriptions of nearly all the letters were posted by September 2003 and these are now being further annotated and edited. The conception and editorial foundations of the project took place at the University of Glasgow between 1999 and 2004. Additional development and hosting is now undertaken by Knowledge Media Design, De Montfort University. The Correspondence editor is Professor Larry Schaaf. |
