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Bensusan Museum of Photography


Postal address:
121 Bree Street Newtown Johannesburg 2001
Street address:
121 Bree Street

Area: Newtown
City: Johannesburg
Province: Gauteng
Postal code: 2001
Country: South Africa

Phone: 011 833-5624

Internetwww.encounter.co.za/bensusan-museum-of-photography.html


Description

The Bensusan Museum of Photography is home to a collection of rare and valuable precision made photographic equipment. For example, a very early Daguerre camera bought by his English rival, WH Fox Talbot, in 1839, the year that the invention of photography was announced to the world is on display. The collectors gallery shows how, seemingly impossible obstacles to photographys evolution were solved by ingenious engineering solutions.

The museum also collects the pictures made using this equipment from the earliest wet-plate prints, to experiments in 3D such as stereoscopic views and holograms, to digital images. The museum also specialises in preserving the work of South African photographers. Along the way interactive toys, darkrooms and multimedia shows teach basic lessons in the principles of optics, light and the moving image, and the fundamentals of photography.
Source: www.savenues.com





Category: Museum
Keywords: Photography
Ref ID: 120

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