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Britain in Focus: A Photographic History

Eamonn McCabe celebrates Britain's greatest photographers, sees how science allowed their art to develop, and explores how they have captured our changing lives and country.

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Eamonn McCabe
Self - Presenter
Martin Parr
Self - Photographer
Roger Watson
Self - Curator, Fox Talbot Museum, Lacock

Season 1 Episode Guide See All

Episode 1

Episode #1.1

In the first of three programmes, he goes back to the 19th century to trace the astonishingly rapid rise of the photograph in British life. Eamonn explores the science behind early photography, and shows how innovative photographic techniques made possible the careers of pioneers like Roger Fenton and Julia Margaret Cameron.

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