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Photograph

20th century (made)

20thC; Grey Howard

Object details

Object type
Photograph
Brief description
20thC; Grey Howard
Gallery label
Label for 'Making It Up: Photographic Fictions' (3 May 2013 - 12 January 2014):

Howard Grey (born 1942)
Contact prints
1981

These contact prints show the first stage in making the fake 19th-century photographs on display nearby. The foliage and a model dressed in Victorian-style clothing were photographed with a modern camera. The negatives were then used to produce enlarged paper negatives. These were printed on paper from the 1840s. After ageing treatments with bleach and dye, the prints were pasted onto old album pages.

Gelatin silver prints
Museum no. Ph.311-1981
Associated objects
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
PH.311-1981

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Record createdJune 30, 2009
Record URL
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1060356/photograph/
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