Due to open it’s doors to the public on 25th October of this year, the V&A’s new ‘Photographs Gallery’ will be a permanent display of the works in the V&A’s large photographic collection.
The museum’s plan is to “chronicle the history of photography from it’s invention in 1839 up to the 1960s” and will feature all the big names in photographic history – Man Ray, Diane Arbus, Irving Penn, Julia Margaret Cameron, Henri Cartier-Bresson and Alfred Stieglitz.
The display will apparently be ‘re-curated’ every 18-months, which seems somewhat problematic but nevertheless an interesting concept.
The new gallery will also have two ‘In Focus’ spaces, each space featuring the work of one photographer who is represented in depth within the V&A collection. The exhibition begins with a focus on Julia Margaret Cameron and Henri Cartier Bresson.
For further details and other events check out www.vam.ac.uk
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