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This Thing: Photography
A Cultural History
10 March - 1 May 2022
An introduction
Photography is coming up to its 200th birthday, it has a compact history, yet it is essential to modern living.  This exhibition draws on the collection of the gallery director gathered over the last 20 years to illustrate his view of the medium's history.
Key practitioners
The culture has been moved by the photographers who resinated and moved the medium forward, Nan Goldin, Henri Cartier-Bresson, Nadar for starters.
The visual story telling media
Tabloids, magazines, advertising gained power when they commandeered photography
Key moments
Moments when a single photograph changed they way we thought about the world.
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