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A History of Photography: Series and Sequences

The Photographs Gallery draws upon the V&A's internationally renowned collection of photographs, and chronicles the history of photography from 1839 up to the present day. In 1852, the V&A became the first museum in the UK to collect photographs and in 1858, the first to hold a photography exhibition. Its collection is now among the most important in the world and forms the UK's national collection of the art of photography.
The Photographs Gallery celebrates the creative language and visual appeal of photographs in their many forms, and showcases some of the most technically brilliant and artistically accomplished photographs in the museum's collection. The display focuses on the wider visions of photographers through series and sequences of images, and features Lewis Baltz, Sian Bonnell, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Harold Edgerton, Masahisa Fukase, Sally Mann, Eadweard Muybridge, Nicholas Nixon, Liz Rideal, Josef Sudek and Sze Tsung Leong.