One of the most important photographic collections in the world has received a huge funding boost, making it more accessible to the public by placing it within one of photography?s key organisations.
The Royal Photographic Society?s Collection is moving to the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford. The largest ever Heritage Lottery Grant for photography has been awarded to secure its future within this new partnership. Further funding comes from the Arts Fund and Yorkshire Forward. Insight: Collections and Research Centre at the heart of the Bradford museum will house the RPS Collection, of which this waxed paper negative by Fox Talbot (1800- 1877) is only one extraordinary example. Pictures by Julia Margaret Cameron, Roger Fenton, Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (alias Lewis Carroll) and many other notable artists are complemented by a range of other material including letters, manuscripts, memorabilia and publications relating to photographers and photography.
The Collection will be moved later this year, with the first of a rolling programme of exhibitions beginning in January 2003. Amanda Nevill, Head of NMPFT, said: "This is wonderful news for photography worldwide".