misadventure by motor car
Posted in 1920s, 1930s, 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, Accident scenes, Archive Gallery, Negative Archive, Police Photographers on Mar 21st, 2011
The Archive Gallery has been transformed for the archive’s latest offering Collision: misadventure by motor car. This exhibition presents previously unseen traffic accident photographs taken by police between 1920 and 1964. Recent research on the archive reveals that after the mid-1940s the police approach to photographing accident sites becomes more comprehensive – expanding from one [...]