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Roger Fenton 
Head of Homer 
1855 (ca) 
  
Salted paper print 
Victoria and Albert Museum 
Museum no. 40:810 
  
 
LL/33794 
  
This photograph can be seen in Charles Thurston Thompson's view of the 1858 Exhibition of the Photographic Society of London and the Société Française de photographie at the South Kensington Museum is the earliest known photograph of a photographic exhibition. It shows a densely-packed gallery of photographs displayed in what was then called the Refreshment upper room. 
 

 
  
 
  
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