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GETTY’S HULTON ARCHIVE
according to Victoria’s own
journals. We respectfully whisper
our next conversation across her
royal highness.
Melanie ends the tour by showing
an image by Eadweard Muybridge
(1830-1904), the English-American
photographer important for his
pioneering work in photographic
studies of motion. He’s arguably
best known for shooting and killing
his wife’s lover, a crime for which
he was acquitted in a jury trial on
the grounds of justifiable homicide.
It’s been an overwhelming and
dramatic three hours. I feel guilty
for only glimpsing a fraction on
offer at this analogue centre of
excellence. Melanie half-jokingly
suggests checking my bag on
the way out. I suppress my inner
Indiana Jones (Raiders of the Lost
Archive?). In truth, I don’t want
to steal anything; I want to leave
something and consider slipping a
folio of my images onto the shelf.
The Wiltshire-born, Devon-raised
lass, who hates being photographed
and is driven by what she is yet to
see, has to go. She softly guides
me back into the open and I stride
deeper into the drizzle. ‘We didn’t
even make it to the Man Ray’s!’
she shouts.A photo-montage
by the photographic
pioneer Eadweard
Muybridge dates
from around 1885
The boxes of Hitler
pictures are stored
alphabetically, next
to the boxes of Benny
Hill photographsJapanese soldiers consult
a map in this image,
taken around 1860© FELICE BEATO / HENRY GUTTMAN COLLECTION / GETT Y IMAGES
© PETER DENCH
© EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE / HULTON ARCHIVE / GETT Y IMAGES