Photographs Exhibited at the Royal Photographic Society 1870-1915

摄影史最近才在英国发展成为一门正式的学科，其进步因缺乏支撑艺术史和其他学术学科的主要参考书和标准文本而受到限制。 19 世纪后半叶最全面的摄影展览记录是伦敦大不列颠摄影协会的记录，该记录在 1870 年后在《摄影杂志》上全文出版。尽管英国其他地方的其他摄影协会蓬勃发展并举办自己的年度展览，但遗憾的是，这些协会的展览目录似乎没有幸存下来。相比之下，英国摄影协会现存的 44 份目录包含约 30,000 份个人记录，其中首次包括一些展出照片的随附线条或半色调插图。他们对这一时期的人物、产品、技术、品味、艺术和商业趋势以及皇家摄影协会本身的命运提供了独特的见解。 1870 年后，英国摄影协会被公认为领先的摄影协会，吸引了来自英国、欧洲和美国的广泛摄影师群体。许多人通过在皇家摄影协会举办展览开始了他们的摄影生涯，其中相当多的人后来成为了当时的领先从业者。借助伯明翰市图书馆的资源，德蒙福特大学将在可浏览和可搜索的数据库中在线提供这些记录，并补充来自当代年度期刊摄影图的额外图像和评论，以进一步帮助识别和理解展出的物品。当与之前由 AHRC 资助的《1839-1865 年在英国展出的照片》(www.peib.org.uk) 一起查看时，《1870-1915 年在英国皇家摄影协会展出的照片》将创建一个涵盖整个 19 世纪摄影史的独特在线资源。它将允许学者们首次对广泛的历史数据进行搜索，揭示迄今为止隐藏的实践、群体、技术的发展、时尚的变化和思想的传播。它还将有助于识别和归属这一时期的照片。这种组合资源的协同潜力将通过搜索工具的开发得到进一步增强，该搜索工具将允许对这两个数据库和其他数据库进行组合搜索，尽管它们之间存在差异，并返回可以集体过滤和组织的综合研究结果集。

Photographic history has only recently developed as a formal academic discipline in the UK, its progress restrained by lack of major reference works and standard texts of the type that underpin art history and other scholarly subjects. The most comprehensive records of photographic exhibitions for the latter part of the 19th century are those of the Photographic Society of Great Britain, London, which, after 1870, are published in full in The Photographic Journal. Although other photographic societies elsewhere in Britain flourished and held their own annual exhibitions, sadly, exhibition catalogues from these societies seem not to have survived. In contrast, the 44 extant catalogues of the Photographic Society of Great Britain contain around 30,000 individual records, including, for the first time, accompanying line or half tone illustrations of some of the photographs exhibited. They offer a unique insight into the personalities, products, techniques, tastes and artistic and commercial trends of this period, as well as the fortunes of the Royal Photographic Society itself. After 1870 the Photographic Society of Great Britain was recognised as the leading photographic society, attracting a wide constituency of photographers, from Britain, Europe and America. Many individuals launched their photographic career by exhibiting at the Royal Photographic Society and a significant number went on to become leading practitioners of their day.Drawing on the resources of Birmingham City Library, De Montfort University will make these records available online in a browsable and searchable database, supplementing them with additional images and commentaries from the contemporary Journal Photograms of the Year to further aid identification and understanding of the items exhibited. When viewed together with the previously AHRC funded Photographs Exhibited in Britain 1839-1865 (www.peib.org.uk), Photographs Exhibited at the Royal Photographic Society 1870-1915 will create a unique online resource spanning the entire 19th century history of photography. It will allow scholars for the first time to conduct searches across a broad sweep of historical data, to reveal hitherto hidden practices, groupings, developments in techniques, changes in fashion and the dissemination of ideas. It will also aid the identification and attribution of photographs from this period. The synergistic potential of this combined resource will be further enhanced by the development of a search facility that will allow combined search of these two databases and others, despite their differences, and return integrated sets of research results that can be collectively filtered and organised.