The Lives of Great Photographers Exhibition

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  Ref Number:
  1937-1295-8

  Creator
  William Henry Fox Talbot

  The Ladder

  1844

   

  © National Media Museum/SSPL

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  Ref Number:
  1990-5036/6000/0022

  Creator
  George Davison

  Joan with baby Doreen

  1921

   

  © National Media Museum/SSPL courtesy of the Kodak Collection

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  Ref Number:
  2003-5001/2/23663

  Creator
  Julia Margaret Cameron

  So Like a Shatter’d Column Lay the King

  1875

   

  © National Media Museum/ SSPL courtesy of The Royal Photographic Society

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  Ref Number:
  2003-5001-2-20884

  Creator
  Roger Fenton

  Princesses Helena and Louise

  1856

   

  © National Media Museum/SSPL courtesy of The Royal Photographic Society

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  Ref Number:
  1983-5226

  Creator
  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Dessau, Germany

  1945

   

  © Henri Cartier-Bresson, Magnum, HCB Fondation, courtesy of the National Media Museum/SSPL

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  Ref Number:
  1989-5063-1

  Creator
  Richard Sadler

  Weegee in Coventry

  1963

   

  © Richard Sadler, courtesy of National Media Museum/SSPL

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  Ref Number:
  1991-5076-47

  Creator
  

  Lewis Hine photographing children in a slum

  c. 1910

   

  © National Media Museum/SSPL

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  Ref Number:
  1991-5070/5

  Creator
  Edith Tudor Hart

  Gee Street, Finsbury

  1936

   

  © Wolfgang Suchitzky courtesy of National Media Museum/SSPL

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  Ref Number:
  2002-5035/2

  Creator
  Ainslie Ellis

  Contact sheet of portraits of Tony Ray-Jones

  c. 1970

   

  © National Media Museum/SSPL courtesy of Anna Ray-Jones

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  Ref Number:
  1993-5016/883/1

  Creator
  Tony Ray-Jones

  Auto Show, Daytona

  1965

   

  © National Media Museum/SSPL courtesy of Anna Ray-Jones

Click on these images to see a selection of photographs from the exhibition.

From photographs by William Henry Fox Talbot, Julia Margaret Cameron and Eadweard Muybridge to Tony Ray-Jones and Weegee, this exhibition highlights some of the most famous and memorable images ever produced. It illuminates the extraordinary and sometimes exceptional lives these photographers led.

The exhibition is drawn exclusively from the Museum's extensive and diverse Photography Collection, including works from The Royal Photographic Society Collection and the Daily Herald Archive. Together this exhibition presents a selection of photographs by some of the greatest photographers of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.

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