Image: ‘Hands’, c.1930s Credit: Atelier von Behr/NMPFT/RPS/V&A – source Daily Telegraph.

An interesting article was recently published on the Daily Telegraph, which outlines some of the challenges of storing and displaying photography collections. It is from a UK perspective but we doubt that the UK faces these questions alone.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/photography/what-to-see/photography-deserves-a-new-home/

“What is clear is that despite plenty of hard work and laudable intentions, Britain still doesn’t have a clear strategy for exhibiting and preserving our national collection of photographs. How embarrassing for a country that created the first paper photograph (Fox Talbot, at Lacock Abbey, in 1839), the collodion process (Frederick Scott Archer, in 1851) and the first colour images (James Clerk Maxwell, in 1861).”