BSL Tour: An Alternative History of Photography

06:30pm - 07:30pm, Thu 26 Jan 2023

A tour in British Sign Language for D/deaf visitors and their companions

A grid of photographs showing a time lapse of two men, naked but for a loin cloth, fencing.

BSL Tour: An Alternative History of Photography

6:30pm, Thu 26 Jan 2023

A tour in British Sign Language for D/deaf visitors and their companions

This event is part of our Past Programme

Join historian John Wilson for a tour in British Sign Language of selected works in the exhibition An Alternative History of Photography: Works from the Solander Collection.

With over 130 works from the Solander Collection, An Alternative History of Photography invites you to look again at well-known works and new discoveries by major artists, alongside forgotten greats, regional champions and unknown artists.

Unexpected images by legendary figures including Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Robert Frank, Man Ray and Edward Weston, are paired with work by  Helen Stuart and John Lindt, early, self-trained practitioner Lady Augusta Mostyn, and African studio photographers Sanlé Sory, Michel Kameni and Malick Sidibé.

Free, booking essential

John Wilson is a freelance historian. He currently works as a BSL lecturer and guide for a number of high profile institutions including the National Gallery, Historic Royal Palaces, Royal Academy and Science Museum, London.

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