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ILLUSTRATED TALKS

Explore our collection of illustrated talks from our student curators and the Royal Collection.

ROYAL COLLECTION TALK

Photographs in the Royal Collection

Alessandro Nasini
Curator of Photographs

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were passionate collectors and supporters of photography. Their enthusiasm for the new medium laid the foundations of a remarkable collection of photographs, which Alessandro Nasini (Curator of Photographs, Royal Collection Trust) discusses in this illustrated talk.

Length: 25min 26sec

STUDENT TALK

A Quick Snap?

Madeleine Cater
Student Curator

Photography in 1862 was still a new, fiddly and challenging process, and Francis Bedford’s method was invented only a decade before he joined the royal tour of Albert Edward, the Prince of Wales.

Length: 7min 19sec

STUDENT TALK

In the Shade of Temples

Grace Trumbo
Student Curator

Grace Trumbo discusses the photograph Acropolis and Temple of Jupiter Olympus [Olympieion], 1862, taken by Francis Bedford.

Length: 5min 43sec

STUDENT TALK

Extra! Extra!

Victoria Pap
Student Curator

How were current affairs consumed by the Victorians? Newspapers played a huge role in how the British public looked on Francis Bedford’s photographs – and on the 1862 royal tour of Albert Edward, the Prince of Wales, through the Middle East. Find out with Victoria Pap in ‘Extra! Extra! How the Victorians reported and consumed Bedford’s photographs of the royal tour.’

Length: 5min 53sec

STUDENT TALK

Photography vs Painting

Zuzanna Pela
Student Curator

Photography and painting – when creatively manipulated, both can influence our perception of the subjects depicted. How does this affect our understanding of the images in ‘Sights of Wonder’?

Length: 7min 59sec

Below is a video provided by the Royal Collection Trust which explains the wet collodion photographic process used by Francis Bedford while touring with the prince. As a process it had only been invented in the 1850s, just over 10 years before it was used by Bedford during the Royal Tour with such skill

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were passionate collectors and supporters of photography. Their enthusiasm for the new medium laid the foundations of a remarkable collection of photographs, which Alessandro Nasini (Curator of Photographs, Royal Collection Trust) discusses in this illustrated talk.

Queen Victoria and Prince Albert were passionate collectors and supporters of photography. Their enthusiasm for the new medium laid the foundations of a remarkable collection of photographs, which Alessandro Nasini (Curator of Photographs, Royal Collection Trust) discusses in this illustrated talk.