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was established in 1897 to create a record of English life, towns and landscapes. It emerged as part of the Photographic Record and Survey Movement which sought to record a range of objects and phenomena of social and physical landscapes undergoing rapid change, and as a result of the expansion of
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Photography, ‘Englishness’ and Collective Memory: The National Photographic Record Association, 1897–1910, Elizabeth Edwards in Locating Memory: Photographic Acts, Annette Kuhn Kirsten Emiko McAllister (Eds), Berghahn Books, New York, 2006
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In May 1910, with a growing concentration of survey work at a local level, it was announced that the NPRA had done its work, and that the time had arrived when it could retire and leave the work to be carried on by local societies.
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This article is about the group which used photography to create a record of late 19th Century English life, towns and landscapes. For the portrait project, the National Photographic Record, see
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A Record of England: Sir Benjamin Stone and the National Photographic Record Association 1897–1910, Elizabeth Edwards, Peter James & Martin Barnes, Dewi Lewis Publishing, 2006
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A Century of Survey Photography, Peter James, in The Local Historian, November 1990, Vol 20, No. 4 (available online at
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and many others. All contributions were made on a voluntary basis. Initially many of the prints were donated to the
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Elizabeth Edwards, The Camera as Historian: Amateur Photographs and Historical Imagination, 1885–1918, Durham:
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During its thirteen years of operation, 5,883 prints were collected by photographers including Benjamin Stone,
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The National Photographic Record Association (NPRA) was first proposed in 1889 by
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Encyclopedia of Nineteenth-Century Photography, John Hannavy (ed),
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Photography organizations established in the 19th century
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adopted Harrison's ideas and established the NPRA for
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photography as a pastime in the nineteenth century.
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Walter Stoneman
William Jerome Harrison
Royal Photographic Society
John Benjamin Stone
Edgar Scamell
British Museum
Victoria and Albert Museum
Duke University Press
Routledge


British Association for Local History
"The Photographic Record and Survey Movement"
the original


Elizabeth Edwards
Peter James
Dewi Lewis
ISBN
978-1904587378
"Sir Benjamin Stone & the National Photographic Record Association"
on Google Books
"Photography as Art and Social History"
Categories
Photography organizations established in the 19th century
1897 establishments in the United Kingdom
British photography organisations

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