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
Internet: www.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
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