The National Science and Media Museum

Little Horton Ln

Bradford BD1 1NQ

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Past Events and Exhibitions

Britain in Focus: A Photographic History

17 March 2017 to 25 June 2017

Britain in Focus: A Photographic History will open to coincide with the BBC Four television series of the same name, due to be aired in March 2017.

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Poetics of Light: Pinhole Photography

17 March 2017 to 25 June 2017

In Poetics of Light, more than 200 photographs and 40 cameras are brought together to tell the story of contemporary pinhole photography.

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A Scene in York (York Minster from Top Lane), 28 July 1845, William Henry Fox Talbot © National Media Museum, Bradford / Science & Society Picture Library

Fox Talbot: Dawn of the Photograph

18 November 2016 to 8 February 2017

An exhibition on William Henry Fox Talbot, polymath and pioneer of Victorian photography. See one of the world’s most comprehensive and important collections of his work.

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Special Event

Alec Soth film screening

13 June 2016, 18:30 to 20:30

The National Science and Media Museum,

Bradford

The film Somewhere to Disappear stars Alec Soth, whose exhibition of photographs Gathered Leaves is showing at the National Media Museum until 26 June. This screening is hosted by Redeye's Paul Herrmann and includes a Q&A with special guests including the associate curator of Gathered Leaves, Tim Clark, and photographer and writer Aaron Schuman.

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Alec Soth film screening

13 June 2016, 18:30 to 20:30

The film Somewhere to Disappear stars Alec Soth, whose exhibition of photographs Gathered Leaves is showing at the National Media Museum until 26 June. This screening is chaired by Redeye's Paul Herrmann and includes a Q&A with special guests including the associate curator of Gathered Leaves, Tim Clark, and photographer and writer Aaron Schuman.

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Revelations: Experiments in Photography

20 November 2015 to 3 February 2016

From the 1840s, scientists were using photography to record and measure phenomena which lay beyond human vision. The beauty of these early images and the revolutionary techniques developed for scientific study, shaped the history of photography and heavily influenced modern and contemporary art photographers.

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Drawn by Light: The Royal Photographic Society Collection

20 March 2015 to 21 June 2015

The Royal Photographic Society was founded in 1853. Its collection is now held at the National Media Museum as part of the National Photography Collection. With over 250000 images, 8000 items of photographic equipment and 31000 books, periodicals and documents, it’s one of the most comprehensive photographic collections in the world. This exhibition brings together a selection of key pieces from the collection.

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Only in England: Photographs by Tony Ray-Jones and Martin Parr (Bradford)

22 March 2014 to 29 June 2014

Featuring works drawn from the Tony Ray-Jones archive in the National Photography Collection, and rarely seen early black and white photographs by Martin Parr, this exhibition will explore the relationship between these two important photographers and their fascination with the English.

Fascinated by the eccentricities of English social customs, Tony Ray-Jones spent the latter half of the 1960s travelling across England, photographing what he saw as a disappearing way of life.

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Open for Business

31 January 2014 to 5 May 2014

Open for Business is the story of contemporary British manufacturing and industry told through the lens of nine Magnum photographers: Jonas Bendiksen, Stuart Franklin, Bruce Gilden, David Hurn, Peter Marlow, Martin Parr, Mark Power, Chris Steele-Perkins and Alessandra Sanguinetti.

They have photographed over 100 workplaces, from traditional, handmade crafts to modern, intelligent automation; from foundries and assembly lines to research laboratories and high tech cleanrooms, showing an economic sector of extraordinary resistance and diversity.

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Copper Horses

15 November 2013 to 9 February 2014

Copper Horses by Chris Harrison is a new exhibition reflecting on identity, class, British industry and the photographer's relationship with his dad.

When Chris was a boy he believed his dad was a deep-sea diver who had adventures every day. In reality his dad worked in a factory as a precision engineer.

By the time Chris had grown up he realised his dad wasn't an adventurer. Instead, like many others, he worked hard to provide for his family in a difficult, skilled and often underappreciated job.

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Sharing Photography and Photographs: Discount for Redeye members

25 October 2013, 09:30 to 16:00

NB: EVENT NOW CANCELLED - This event will not take place although the related event in London is still set to go ahead.

Photography is often perceived as a solitary practice; one eye fixed on the world. This series of talks will explore an alternative history of photography as a shared activity. RPS members, Redeye members and students receive a discounted ticket rate of £15.

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Art of Arrangement: Photography and the Still Life Tradition

17 November 2012 to 10 February 2013

Still life has inspired photographers throughout the history of the medium. The form, developed throughout centuries of painting and visual art, is full of striking imagery and dark symbolism, focusing on decay and the fleeting nature of life.

Featuring works by some of the most celebrated practitioners of photography, Art of Arrangement investigates the photographic still life through both classic examples and works that challenge the definition of the genre.

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Outposts

30 September 2011 to 19 February 2012

The National Media Museum, in a unique collaboration with the Imperial War Museum, is curating and hosting the premiere exhibition of new work exploring the architecture of modern conflict by Magnum photographer Donovan Wylie.

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Daniel Meadows: Early Photographic Works

30 September 2011 to 19 February 2012

First retrospective of the hugely influential photographer, documentarian and storyteller.

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Architecture of Conflict Conference

27 October 2011, 10:00 to 16:00

One-day conference on photography of war in urban spaces.

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Archive Connections with Red Saunders

21 October 2011, 14:00 to 15:00

Red Saunders talks about selected photographs from the National Media Museum archive.

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