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Eamonn McCabe explores how science and technology allowed pioneering photographers like Roger Fenton and Julia Margaret Cameron to create a new art form.
Series in which Eamonn McCabe celebrates Britain's greatest photographers, sees how science allowed their art to develop, and explores how they have captured our changing lives and country.
In the first of three programmes, Eamonn goes back to the 19th century to trace the astonishingly rapid rise of the photograph in British life. Eamonn explores the science behind early photography, and shows how innovative photographic techniques made possible the careers of pioneers like Roger Fenton and Julia Margaret Cameron. He sees how great figures of the age such as Queen Victoria and Isambard Kingdom Brunel were captured on camera, and revisits the Victorians' sense of wonder about the 'natural magic' of photography and the role it played in their lives.
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Music Played
Timings (where shown) are from the start of the programme in hours and minutes
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00:38
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
Piano Sonata No. 16 In C, K. 545 - Allegro
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00:42
Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov
The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh (Proms 2015)
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00:53
Gustav Holst
Brook Green Suite: II. Air
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00:58
The Kinks
People Take Pictures Of Each Other
Credits
Role | Contributor |
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Presenter | Eamonn McCabe |
Executive Producer | John Das |
Series Producer | Alastair Laurence |
Production Manager | Nicole Larmour |
Broadcasts
- Mon 6 Mar 2017 21:00
- Tue 7 Mar 2017 02:50
- Thu 9 Mar 2017 00:05
- Wed 13 Sep 2017 23:00
- Tue 26 Jun 2018 01:40
- Tue 12 Mar 2019 02:30
- Tue 7 Jan 2020 00:00
- Mon 24 May 2021 23:00
- Wed 10 Nov 2021 23:35
- Mon 1 Apr 2024 20:00
- Tue 2 Apr 2024 02:35
National Media Museum Exhibition
A 91热爆 and National Media Museum partnership. Britain in Focus: A Photographic History.
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