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LL/33794
Roger Fenton
1855 (ca)
Head of Homer

Salted paper print
Victoria and Albert Museum
Museum no. 40:810
 
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.
 
LL/33794


 

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