Primary Content:
The collection, assembled over 40 years, contains examples of original photographic processes spanning the history of photography ranging from the Heliograph 1822 right through to Thermal prints; the image originating from a digital imaging camera 1996. The collection also contains images which exhibit classic deterioration defects common to specific photographic processes for example, copper corrosion products on Daguerreotype plates, glass decomposition products in Wet-collodion positives and negatives, insoluble argentothiosulphate complexes in silver based prints and oxidation of residual iron salts in platinum prints which allow a deeper understanding and knowledge of the chemistry and processes used throughout the history of photography. The collection also includes early photographic equipment, cameras and ephemera.
The majority of the collection, including images by Fox Talbot, Hill and Adamson, Cameron, Emerson and Sutcliff, but, it also includes Ponting, Man Ray and Hurst and many anonymous photographers it is predominantly 19th and 20th century, but also contains images up to the present day.
Photographers:
Fox Talbot, William Henry
Cameron, Julia Margaret
Emerson, Peter Henry
Hill, David O.
Adamson, Robert
Silvy, Camile
Ponting, Herbert George
Tripe, Linnaeus
Freund, Gisele
Hurst, Damian
Unknown photographers
Bourne & Shepherd
Studios/Companies:
Elliot & Fry
Francis Frith
James Valentine
Bassano
Disederi
Sherwood and Co
Henry Dixon
Maull & Fox
Maull & Bolyblank
Bamforth
Associated Newspapers Ltd