Published to accompany the opening of the Victoria and Albert Museum Photography Centre, this set of 50 postcards features highlights from the V&A's world-class collection. Seminal prints by nineteenth-century pioneers William Henry Fox Talbot and Julia Margaret Cameron; botanical and motion studies by Anna Atkins and Eadweard Muybridge; early colour photographs by Agnes Warburg and Nickolas Muray; pictures by twentieth-century greats Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen; works by some of the most influential modern and contemporary artists and photographers, including Eugene Atget, Man Ray and Cindy Sherman; examples of the V&A's recent acquisitions by Hiroshi Sugimoto, Cornelia Parker, Linda McCartney and Mark Cohen: from the daguerreotype to the digital, this selection celebrates a history of photography.


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Anna Atkins (1797-1871)
William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-77)
Benjamin Brecknell Turner (1815-94)
Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-79)
Roger Fenton (1819-69)
Gustave Le Gray (1820-84)
Don Juan Carlos Maria Isidro de Borbon, Count of Montizon (1822-87)
Leonida Caldesi (1822-91) and Mattia Montecchi (1816-71)
Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904)
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (aka Lewis Carol) (1832-98)
Seraphin-Mederic Mieusement (1840-1905) and Paul Robert (1865-98)
Timothy O' Sullivan (1840-82)
Eugene Atget (1857-1927)
Ema Spencer (1857-1941)
Alfred Ernest Payne (1859-1936)
F. Holland Day (1864-1933)
Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946)
Herbert Ponting (1870-1935)
Agnes Warburg (1872-1953)
Bernard Eilers (1878-1951)
Emil Otto Hoppe (1878-1972)
Edward Steichen (1879-1973)
Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882-1966)
Rudolph Koppitz (1884-1936)
Erich Salomon (1886-19