A Little Bit of Magic Realised - Susan Derges & Garry Fabian Miller

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Shadowcatchers,at the Victoria & Albert Museum (13th October 2010 - 20th February 2011) is one of this autumn's major exhibitions, presenting the work of five international photographers (Pierre Cordier, Susan Derges, Garry Fabian Miller, Adam Fuss and Floris Neusüss) who have pioneered new techniques in camera-less photography: experimental picture-making using the first principles of photography - the action of light onto light-sensitive paper. Ingleby gallery has represented Susan Derges and Garry Fabian Miller for the past ten years, and will present a parallel exhibition, looking at the wider career of these two artists in the context of early historical photographic experiments. A Little Bit of Magic Realisedtakes its title from the words of William Henry Fox Talbot, writing in 1839, and the exhibition begins with a very rare copy of his Sun Pictures in Scotland; a volume of twenty three calotypes published in 1845, the first book of photographic" images published anywhere in the world.