V&A Photography Centre

The Victoria & Albert has just opened its revamped Photography Centre.  The V&A was the first museum to collect photographs, starting in 1852.

The V&A, in South Kensington

Photography galleries

Photography library

Motion studies by Muybridge, 1887

Dervishes in Cairo, 1870

London leather workers, 1861

by Julia Margaret Cameron, 1867

Welsh coal miners, 1930's

by Dorothea Lange, 1937

Lange, 1937