'The ever-changing cultural and technical landscape has ensured that photography continues to fascinate and challenge us. Through our photography collections permanent galleries, changing exhibitions and events we reflect and explore photography's multiple roles, its history and its continuing impact on society.' - http://www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk/photography
Spot on then! The gallery documents the beginning of photography with illustrations, information, models and early photographs (including the first ever negative) all the way through to the Box Brownie, advertisements and the up to date DSLR's. It felt quite ironic and almost sacrificial to be taking quick snaps on my digital camera of the information boards to save time and of digital reproductions of the old dauggerotypes. (I'm reminding myself of Berger - Ways of Seeing!)
The museum also contained large galleries devoted to film, television and broadcast, animation and a photography exhibition featuring Peter Ainsworth and Tess Hurrell. The shop also sold various Lomography cameras and displayed photos taken on Holgas and Actionsamplers. I think an Actionsampler/Supersampler or fish eye lens for the Holga is next on my list. I also picked up a beautiful little photography book on the 1930's for £3.99!
Well worth a visit!
As part of the day we also had to undertake our assigned 'urban interaction' games. The game our group created was to photograph various things, worth different points - varying from a CCTV camera (10 points) a pink umbrella (50 points) to an empty bus (100 points). The game we were assigned was to take a photo of the group with each letter of 'BRADFORD' in the roads marked on a map in the shape of each letter.
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