Items to be transferred to Victoria and Albert Museum in London from National Media Museum,Bradford, chart 200 years of pioneering photographyThe world’s largest and finest collection on the art of photography is to be created in London when more than 400000 objects transfer from the National Media Museum (NMM) in Bradford to the Victoria and Albert Museum, or in a move described as historic by both institutions. The bulk of the objects being moved are fragment of the Royal Photographic Society (RPS) collection,charting the invention and development of photography over 200 years. They include works by British photography pioneers William Henry Fox Talbot, who invented the negative/positive process for producing photographs, and Julia Margaret Cameron,known for her gorgeous, pre-Raphaelite-inspired portrait photography. The world’s first negative, and daguerreotypes,early colour photographs and approximately 8000 cameras will also be transferred, joining the V&A’s collection of 500000 photographs.
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Source: theguardian.com