Photographs Exhibited at the Royal Photographic Society 1870-1915

摄影史直到最近才在英国发展成为一门正式的学术学科，其进展受到缺乏主要参考作品和支撑艺术史和其他学术学科的标准文本的限制。关于19世纪后半叶摄影展览的最全面的记录是位于伦敦的英国摄影学会的记录，1870年以后，这些记录全文发表在《摄影杂志》上。尽管英国其他地方的摄影协会蓬勃发展，并举办了自己的年度展览，但可悲的是，这些协会的展览目录似乎没有幸存下来。相比之下，大不列颠摄影学会的44个现存目录包含大约30，000个单独的记录，包括首次为一些展出的照片提供的线条或半色调插图。他们提供了一个独特的洞察个性，产品，技术，品味和艺术和商业趋势的这一时期，以及财富的皇家摄影学会本身。1870年后，英国摄影学会被公认为领先的摄影学会，吸引了来自英国，欧洲和美国的广泛摄影师。许多人通过在皇家摄影学会展出而开始了他们的摄影生涯，其中相当一部分人后来成为了他们那个时代的主要从业者。利用伯明翰城市图书馆的资源，德蒙福特大学将把这些记录放在一个可浏览和搜索的数据库中，补充他们的额外图像和评论，从当代杂志摄影年度，以进一步帮助识别和理解展品展示。当与以前AHRC资助的照片在英国展出1839-1865（www.peib.org.uk）一起观看时，在皇家摄影学会展出的照片1870-1915将创建一个独特的在线资源，跨越整个世纪摄影史。它将使学者们第一次能够在广泛的历史数据中进行搜索，揭示迄今为止隐藏的做法、群体、技术发展、时尚变化和思想传播。它还将有助于识别和归属这一时期的照片。这种综合资源的协同潜力将通过开发一种搜索设施得到进一步加强，这种搜索设施将允许对这两个数据库和其他数据库进行综合搜索，尽管它们存在差异，并返回可以集体筛选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.