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This exhibition highlighted some of the most famous and memorable images ever produced, illuminating the extraordinary and sometimes exceptional lives their creators led.
Gallery
Auto Show, Daytona, 1965, Tony Ray-Jones
© Science Museum Group collection, courtesy of Anna Ray-Jones
Joan with baby Doreen, 1921, George Davison
© Science Museum Group collection
The Ladder, 1844, William Henry Fox Talbot
© Science Museum Group collection
Dessau, Germany, 1945, Henri Cartier-Bresson
© Science Museum Group collection
So Like a Shatter’d Column Lay the King, 1875, Julia Margaret Cameron
© The Royal Photographic Society
Weegee in Coventry, 1963, Richard Sadler
© Science Museum Group collection, courtesy of Richard Sadler
Princesses Helena and Louise, 1856, Roger Fenton
© The Royal Photographic Society
Lewis Hine photographing children in a slum, c.1910
© Science Museum Group collection
Contact sheet of portraits of Tony Ray-Jones, c.1970, Ainslie Ellis
© Science Museum Group collection, courtesy of Anna Ray-Jones
Gee Street, Finsbury, 1936, Edith Tudor Hart
© Science Museum Group collection, courtesy of Wolfgang SuchitzkyFrom photographs by William Henry Fox Talbot, Julia Margaret Cameron and Eadweard Muybridge to Tony Ray-Jones and Weegee, this exhibition presented a selection of work by some of the greatest photographers of the 19th and 20th centuries.
