The Jerwood Photography Project - Making the Modern World
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Description: Making the Modern World
- A project to make accessible and preserve the British Library's photographic collection which records the progress of early construction projects. Includes samples from the collection.
Historic Photographs - Making the Modern World Photography, itself a product of a technical age, was seen as a medium ideally suited to record a period of material expansion and massive industrialisation. The nineteenth-century revolution in transport saw the creation of a worldwide network of roads, railways, canals and shipping and all were subject to intense scrutiny by the camera. An early and accomplished example of the use of photography to record the progress of construction projects is to be seen in Philip Delamotte's record of the construction of the Crystal Palace at Sydenham from 1853-55; but it was in France in particular that photography was used most extensively by the civil engineer and collections of prints were made recording the achievements of the Public Works Department in harbour construction, public architecture and communications. Indeed, for a number of studios, such as that of Hippolyte Collard, this branch of work became a speciality. Such photographs served not only as prosaic progress records, but expressed a potent visual declaration of national pride in material progress.
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| Page title: | Historic Photographs - Making the Modern World |
| Keywords: | jerwood charity; photography; Jerwood; photographs; photographic collections; Jerwood photography project; construction; philip henry delamotte; the crystal palace; suez canal; justin kazlowski; paris; hippolyte auguste collard; mont cenis tunnel; london underground; aswan dam; D.S. George |
| Description: | The Jerwood photography project at the British Library. A project to make accessible and preserve the Library's broad range of photographic collections. Phototgraphy used to record the construction of the modern world. |
| IP-address: | 194.66.233.215 |