Starting from next week BBC Four will follow the story of photography from the very start until the current day, under the very fitting title of The Genius Of Photography.

“For the first time on British television, BBC Four chronicles the history of photography, in a major landmark series The Genius Of Photography. The series considers the importance of photography as an art form, looking at a multitude of the world’s greatest photographs, interspersed with exclusive interviews with renowned photographers such as William Klein and Martin Parr.
The series conjures up a picture of just how the camera has changed the way in which people view themselves and the world around them.
Continuing the photography theme comes an incredible nine-part series, Archive Of The World, in which thousands of stunning colour photographs from the early 20th century are unveiled. They were commissioned by French financier Albert Khan as one of the most ambitious photographic projects ever to be undertaken, and the documentary series charts his amazing photographic journey across continents.”

The first program is called Fixing The Shadows and will focus on the start of photography with people like Abe Morell, Henry Fox Talbot and Louis Daguerre, through to the age of mass photography after the creation of Kodak.
Fixing The Shadows will be broadcast on BBC Four on Thursday 25th October at 9pm.

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