Audio slideshow: Photography in the British Library
Rarely displayed items from the British Library's photography collection go on show in a major new exhibition, "Points of View: Capturing the 19th Century in Photographs."
John Falconer, Head of Visual Materials and Curator of Photographs highlights some of the examples and traces the development of the medium from gentlemen's pursuit to mass pastime.
Points of View: Capturing the 19th Century in Photographs runs 30 October 2009 to 7 March 2010 at the British Library in London.
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