Photography Collection

Italy, Como Province, Bellagio. Salita Serbelloni stairs area

Fishing Pier, Avalon, New Jersey

Royal Navy Merlin Helicopter
A Royal Navy Merlin helicopter taking part in an exercise over the south of England. Merlin Mk1 the worlds most potent submarine hunting helicopter

Hippocratic oath. Photography

Spitfire Fighter Aircraft Hot Starting Engines
Spitfire TE311 of the Royal Air Force Memorial Flight (RAFMF) piloted by Wg Cdr " Godders" Godfrey performs a " hot start" during the RAFMF Public Display Authority (PDA)

Muybridge - Horse Gallop
Horse : galloping

Advert for Leica cameras 1934
Take a Leica it ll be worth it. The marvellous pictures you get with your Leica camera will be worth its price many, many times over

USA, Kentucky, Loretto: Makers Mark Bourbon Distillery, Aging Bourbon in Barrels

Photographic enlarger being used to produce an enlarged copy of a photograph

The Dolly Sisters, New York
The Dolly Sisters in the Greenwich Village Follies, New York, 1924. Photograph by Alfred Cheney Johnston 1924

England. Carta Magna (1212). Manuscript Add. 4838. UNITED KINGDOM. London. The British Museum

The soprano Maria Callas in the main role of the opera Norma by Vincenzo Bellini. Photography

England, Lancashire, Lytham St Annes. Lytham St Annes pier located near Blackpool, on the Irish Sea Coast

19th-century alga cyanotype. Cyanotype of the algae Chylocladia kaliformis, as produced by British botanist Anna Atkins (1799-1871). Chylocladia is a seaweed found in European seas and oceans

Muybridge - Horse Gallop
Horse : galloping

The City Hotel, Freetown, Sierra Leone
The City Hotel, Sierra Leone, made famous by author Graham Greene. Now demolished. The hotel was first mentioned in Greenes 1936 book Travel Without Maps

Mrs Mills, celebrity pianist, with dog
Unusual Friends - Mrs Mills, celebrity pianist, with dog. 1960s

ZIC-F-001283-0000
"Io + gatto" : a superimposition of Wanda Wulz's face and the image of her cat 1932

Old man in Stoke pub -1
An elderly man sits in the bar of a working class pub in Staffordshire. He has a half pint of mild ale. It is early doors and there is a portrait of the Queen on the wall - 1 Date: 1987

Royal Navy Seaking Mk4 Helicopters Over Northern Norway
Royal Navy Seaking Mk4 helicopters from 845 Naval Air Squadron conducting Arctic flying training over the snow covered mountains of northern Norway

Horse and Boxer dog
Unusual Friends - horse and Boxer dog. 1950s

Komuso Buddhist monks, Japan. They wear a straw basket (tengai) over their head and play a bamboo flute (shakuhachi). Date: circa 1890s

Artistic Italian nude standing amid stylised watery backdrop
draped drape sheer white cloth nudity nude model poses pose posing stylised artistic postcard erotic naked woman Italian backdrop studio photography photograph attractive form body Date: circa 1905

MACEDONIA, Ohrid. Sveti Jovan at Kaneo Church (13th century) and Lake Ohrid / Morning

AUSTRALIA, Queensland, Fraser Coast, Hervey Bay. Urangan Pier on Hervy Bay
Australia, Queensland, Fraser Coast, Hervey Bay. Urangan Pier on Hervy Bay

Picture No. 10767981
JAWS, Mechanical Great White shark - Valerie Taylor with the shark used in the making of the film Jaws Date:

Aerial photography 1919 AFL03_aerofilms_c12930
" Wills, Shaw and Friese-Greene Ready to Film". A publicity shot for the foundation of the Aerofilms aerial photography company taken at the London Aerodrome, Hendon

Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II taking a picture at the Royal Windsor Horse Trials. 17th May 1981

Dachshund on a bookshelf
Unusual Friends - Dachshund on a bookshelf. 1950s

Two kittens with a drumkit
Unusual Friends - two kittens with a drumkit. 1950s

Darkroom CC025397
Beech Bowls, Quarry Wood Road, Cookham Dean, Berkshire. Herbert Feltons darkroom, c.1944. Chemical bottles line the shelves and there are developing trays and a projector on the work surfaces

Advertisement for Cadburys Golden Key -- male and female models (Barry Trengove and Geraldine Hill) posing. 1959

The portico in wrought iron on entrance door to Champagne Louis Roederer, Reims, Champagne, Marne, Ardennes, France

19th-century alga cyanotype. Cyanotype of the algae Cystoseira fibrosa, as produced by British botanist Anna Atkins (1799-1871)

SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPH, 1863. French illusionist Henri Robin with a ghost, in a double exposed publicity photograph by Eugne
SPIRIT PHOTOGRAPH, 1863. French illusionist Henri Robin with a ghost, in a double exposed publicity photograph by Eug├¿ne Thi© bault, 1863

Muybridge - Dog Gallop 1
Dog (racing hound) galloping - one stride in six phases

Muybridge - Horse Trot
Horse : trotting

Muybridge / Horses Gallop
Horse - transverse gallop

Summer holidays Seaton, Devon, England
A boy shows his grandmother something he has found in a rock pool on the beach at Seaton, Devon, England. She sits in a folding chair with her feet in the water

Whippet and Blackbird
Unusual Friends - Whippet and Blackbird. 1950s

Tango, 1912. Dance originating in Argentina that was introduced in Europe after World War I

Bodinnick, Lanteglos by Fowey, Cornwall. 1904
A view from a street in Bodinnick looking down towards the river and Fowey opposite. Children observe a photographer. Photographer: Herbert Hughes

Maldives, Couple walking on beach

Petrified Wood close-up

Advertisement for Rolls Royce cars -- Spirit of Ecstasy bonnet ornament. 1959

USA-ALASKA-KENAI PENINSULA-NIKOLAEVSK: Russian Orthodox Church Icon in Old Believer
USA, ALASKA, KENAI PENINSULA, NIKOLAEVSK: Russian Orthodox Church Icon in Old Believer Russian Village

Canada, Newfoundland, St. John s. Inukshuk (to act the same way as a human). Traditional stone figure used by the Inuit to mark food, hunting grounds, or direction for travelers

Austria. Vienna. Vienna
AUSTRIA. VIENNA. Vienna

STEVENSON, Robert Louis (1850-1894). Reproduction of a picture of Stevenson taken in 1885

Book of the Deads. 651 -525 BC. Papyrus. Egyptian art. New Kingdom. TURKEY. Istanbul. Archaeological Museum

BRAILLE, Louis (1809-1852). French pedagogue and inventor, creator of the writing system for the blind. Braille alphabet. Photography

GARDEL, Carlos (1890-1935). Argentinian composer and tango singer. Performance of Carlos Gardel. Photography

Rasputin, Grigory Yefimovich (1872-1916). Siberian monk, Tsar Nicholas IIs councillor. Portrait of Rasputin. Photography. RUSSIA

Light meter, used in photography. The light meter measures the brightness so that correct exposure times can be set on a camera

George Eastman, founder of Eastman Kodak
George Eastman, inventor of the Kodak box camera, with his signature. Hand-colored woodcut of a 19th-century illustration

USA, Alabama, Monroeville. Home of writers Truman Capote and Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird, Old Courthouse, b.1903, interior

Camera Obscura 1817
CAMERA OBSCURA the various components of an observation hut or kiosk housing the device

Advertisement for Ford Anglia cars -- male and female models posing (Geraldine Hill, Susan Ingram and Ossie O Leary). 1959

BORGES, Jorge Luis (1899-1986). Argentinian poet
" BORGES, Jorge Luis (1899-1986). Argentinian poet, narrator and essayist. " The Aleph". Losada publishing house (1952)."

Person with a camera, X-ray
Person with a camera. Coloured, frontal X-ray of a person holding a camera (blue, left). The persons skull (centre) and neck bones (vertebrae, lower centre) can be seen

Bloodhound looking sleepy
Unusual Friends - bloodhound looking sleepy. 1950s

French Polynesia, Bora Bora, View of Pearl Beach Resort

Ofu Island, Manua'a island group, American Samoa, South Pacific
Ofu Island, ManuA'a island group, American Samoa, South Pacific

East Coast of Tutuila island, American Samoa, South Pacific

Pheasant Tail feathers all lined up

Back feathers of the Northern Pintail Duck

Carnival Venice Italy Masked Costumes

Geghard Monastery, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Armenia

Bangaan in the rice terraces of Banaue, Northern Luzon, Philippines

USA-MASSACHUSETTS-Marthas Vineyard: Edgartown- Edgartown Lighthouse / Morning
USA, MASSACHUSETTS, Marthas Vineyard: Edgartown, Edgartown Lighthouse / Morning

SPAIN. Miguel Bose. 07 / 03 / 2011
SPAIN. Miguel Bose. 07/03/2011

ITALY. Siena. Piazza de Il Campo, where Il Palio

BRAILLE, Louis (1809-1852). French pedagogue and inventor, creator of the writing system for the blind. Braille alphabet. Photography

Spain (1493). Letter of the queen Isabel I to Christopher Columbus (5th September 1493). SPAIN. Sevilla. General Archives of the Indies

UNAMUNO, Miguel de (1864-1936). Miguel de Unamuno reading in a garden. Photography taken after his return from exile. Published

Kodak Cameras 1930S
Putting the finishing touches to Kodak cameras. Date: 1930s

Camera lenses. Seen here (from left to right) are: a wide-angle fixed lens, a standard zoom lens (left), a wide-angle zoom lens (right) and a telephoto lens

Fiji, wall mural

Muybridge - Horse Leap
Horse : leaping

Muybridge - Running
sequences of an athlete starting to run

Fox Talbot Studio
The studio of W H Fox Talbot at Reading : he is the figure standing on the right

SPAIN. Cangas de On�Medieval bridge of Cangas
SPAIN. Cangas de On� Medieval bridge of Cangas (14th c.), also known as the Roman Bridge. Gothic art.; Romanesque art

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"Capturing the Essence of Time: A Journey Through Photography" From the fiery roar of Spitfire Fighter Aircraft hot starting engines to the solemn oath taken by doctors, it has witnessed it all and has immortalized moments aboard Royal Navy Merlin Helicopters and frozen Eadweard Muybridge's iconic Horse Gallop in time. Traveling across continents, lenses have explored the heartland of USA, Kentucky, Loretto, where Makers Mark Bourbon Distillery ages its precious spirits in barrels. They have also captured the enchanting performance of soprano Maria Callas as she graced the stage in the main role of opera Norma. Diving into cultural heritage, photography unveils Tango's passionate origins in Argentina back in 1912. It takes us back even further to England's historic Carta Magna manuscript from 1212 with its enduring significance. And let us not forget how photographic enlargers revolutionized image reproduction for generations to come. The lens then transports us to New York City where we meet The Dolly Sisters - icons who captivated audiences with their charm and grace. But photography doesn't limit itself to human subjects; it delves into nature too. In a mesmerizing display, 19th-century alga cyanotypes reveal intricate patterns hidden beneath water surfaces. Finally, we find ourselves on England's picturesque coastline at Lancashire's Lytham St Annes – a place that holds secrets only they are unveil. From historical landmarks to natural wonders and everything in between, this captivating art form captures life’s most extraordinary moments for eternity. In every click lies an untold story waiting to be discovered – join us on this visual odyssey through time as we celebrate the magic of photography.