Find out about previous exhibitions held at the National Media Museum by selecting a year from the drop-down menu.
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Outposts: Donovan Wylie
30 September 2011 – 19 February 2012
Magnum photographer, Donovan Wylie, is one of Britain's most talented artists. His photographs provide a revealing and visually compelling record of modern military architecture. This exhibition features a new series of his work made while embedded with Canadian forces in Afghanistan and is the product of a unique collaboration between this Museum and the Imperial War Museum.
Wylie's new work, Outposts, continues to interrogate the architecture of conflict and derives from the idea of vision and power, contextualized in themes of history and impermanence.
The Bradford Fellowship is a partnership between the University of Bradford, Bradford College and the National Media Museum. The Fellowship is a prestigious award, given to mid-career photographers or artists to develop their professional practice in the context of our Collection.
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Daniel Meadows: Early Photographic Works
30 September 2011 – 19 February 2012
Daniel Meadows was one of a group of photographers who spearheaded the independent photography movement in the early 1970s, breaking with tradition and infusing the medium with new energies and ways of seeing. His practice is complex, passionate and sometimes deeply autobiographical.
Between 1971 and 1987, he produced an astonishing record of urban society in Britain, working in a uniquely collaborative way through his interviews with - and writing about – his subjects.
Daniel Meadows: Early Photographic Works encompasses Meadows' major projects, as well as recently discovered work from his archives. The exhibition is accompanied by a book, published by Photoworks.
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The Lives of Great Photographers
15 April - 4 September 2011
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 Lives of Great Photographers is a compelling new exhibition 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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David Spero: Churches
15 April - 4 September 2011
David Spero presents a selection of photographs from his series Churches. Taken in London between 2002 and 2006 the photographs document buildings that feature none of the usual monumental architecture of the traditional church with its overt symbolism of status and power.
Temporary, semi-permanent and often un-consecrated, the churches are where we would least expect to find them, located in industrial estates, shopping parades, houses, cinemas, above pubs and commercial properties they reveal a contingent architecture of buildings that were never designed to be places of worship.
Four new and previously unseen images of churches in West Yorkshire, commissioned by this Museum in 2010, will also be displayed.
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