8.08.2009

Points Of View Exhibition . The British Library

Photography in progress: An exhibition of 19th-century life


The hippopotamus at the Zoological Gardens, Regent's Park, London (1852) . Don Juan Carlos


Portrait of William Henry Fox Talbot (early 1840s) . Antoine Jean Francois Claudet


An oak tree in winter (c1842-43) . William Henry Fox Talbot


Hastings from the beach, low water (c.1864) . Francis Frith


Trilithons B and C from the south-west, Stonehenge (c.1867) . Ordnance Survey


A Sharpshooter's Last Sleep, Gettysburg (July 1863) . Alexander Gardner


Helmet of the Emperor Charles V, in the Royal Armoury, Madrid (c.1862) . Charles Clifford


Street life in London: Workers on the Silent Highway (1876-7) . John Thomson


Village near Yokohama (c1869) . Wilhelm Burger

X-ray photograph of frogs (1890s) . Josef Maria Eder and Eduard Valenta


Construction work on the Central line of the London Underground (1898)


Printing Kodak negatives by daylight, Harrow (1891)


Portrait of Oscar Wilde, New York (1882) . Napolean Sarony

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