To mark the Museum’s recent name change we look at how photography, fi lm, television, radio and computers are represented within the Daily Herald Picture Library. This is an opportunity for the Museum to show material related to these topics.

The Daily Herald ran from 1912 until 1964, and at its peak had one of the biggest circulations of any national newspaper anywhere in the world. In 1964 the Herald was sold and re-launched by its new owners as The Sun. The Herald picture library continued to grow under The Sun until the early 1970s, which explains why some of the photographs shown were taken after the Herald&rsqu...

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French born Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908 - 2004) is one of the most familiar names in the history of photography. His work has been enormously influential on generations of photographers. He is particularly renowned for the purity of his methods, capturing his subjects at the point during which all the elements of a scene would come together in a meaningful way. Between 1932 -1946 he documented both his extensive travels and his encounters with Surrealism and modern art, creating some of his best and most enduring photographs. For further details please download a biography (PDF 0.9mb).

The Scrapbook
A simple scrapbook...

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