A Record of England Sir Benjamin Stone & the National Photographic Record Association, 1897-1910 Tapa dura - 2007

Stone (1838-1914) is currently most well known for his parliamentary portraits and studies of British customs. In 1897 he announced the formation of the National Photographic Record Association for which worked tirelessly - his collection comprising some 22,000 prints, 600 steroescopic images and 50 albums. Elizabeth Edwards is Professor and senior research fellow at the University of the Arts, London. A visual anthropologist and historian, she has published widely on the relationship between photography, history and cultural representation. Peter James is Head of Photographs at Birmingham Central Library. He has undertaken extensive research on Stone's collection for many years and works with contemporary photographers interested in the contemparary resonances of the intellectual legacies of Stone and the Survey Movement. He is currently working on a major exhibition: Stone and his photographic collection. Martin Barnes is Curator of Photographs at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London