A History of Photography

This set of 50 postcards features highlights from the V&A's world-class collection. Seminal prints by nineteenth-century pioneers William Henry Fox Talbot and Julia Margaret Cameron; botanical and motion studies by Anna Atkins and Eadweard Muybridge; early colour photographs by Agnes Warburg and Nickolas Muray; pictures by twentieth-century greats Alfred Stieglitz and Edward Steichen; works by some of the most influential modern and contemporary artists and photographers, including Eugène Atget, Man Ray and Cindy Sherman; examples of the V&A's recent acquisitions by Hiroshi Sugimoto, Cornelia Parker, Linda McCartney and Mark Cohen: from the daguerreotype to the digital, this selection celebrates a history of photography.

Artists featured:

Anna Atkins (1797-1871)
William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-77)
Benjamin Brecknell Turner (1815-94)
Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-79)
Roger Fenton (1819-69)
Gustave Le Gray (1820-84)
Don Juan Carlos María Isidro de Borbón, Count of Montizón (1822-87)
Leonida Caldesi (1822-91) and Mattia Montecchi (1816-71)
Eadweard Muybridge (1830-1904)
Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (aka Lewis Carol) (1832-98)
Séraphin-Méderic Mieusement (1840-1905) and Paul Robert (1865-98)
Timothy O' Sullivan (1840-82)
Eugène Atget (1857-1927)
Ema Spencer (1857-1941)
Alfred Ernest Payne (1859-1936)
F. Holland Day (1864-1933) Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946)
Herbert Ponting (1870-1935)
Agnes Warburg (1872-1953)
Bernard Eilers (1878-1951)
Emil Otto Hoppé (1878-1972)
Edward Steichen (1879-1973)
Alvin Langdon Coburn (1882-1966)
Rudolph Koppitz (1884-1936)
Erich Salomon (1886-1944)
Frederick William Bond (1887-1942)
Man Ray (1890-1976)
Nickolas Muray (1892-1965)
Herbert Bayer (1900-85)
Cecil Beaton (1904-1980)
Horst P. Horst (1906-1999)
Bill Brandt (1904-83)
Frank Horvat (born 1928)
Gianni Penati (born 1930)
J.D. 'Okhai Ojeikere (1930-2014)
Linda McCartney