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Polaroid Model 95 Land Camera.Photo: Deutsches Museum
  • Guided tour

Image technology in focus

Never has there been so much photography as there is today. And never before has it been so easy. However, photography is even more enjoyable when you know the technology behind it. Join us on a tour through the history of photographic technology.

  • Adults, Family and children, Young people

The Photography and Film exhibition presents photography as a cultural technique that is significantly influenced by the equipment used for recording and reproduction. It covers the early days of photography with the camera obscura and laterna magica and continues right up to digitalisation over the past few decades. The focus is on the period from 1839, when the invention of photography made it possible for the first time to permanently reproduce and fix (stablise) images of real life.

When will this event take place?

Discover which activities are taking place by checking our daily programme, which is published at around 9.20 each day. Our programme changes daily and includes guided tours, demonstrations, science shows and hands-on activities for individual visitors and small groups of up to five people. All programme events are held in German. They begin either directly where the activity is set to take place or at a guided-tour meeting point in the relevant exhibition.

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Photography and Film – Image technology in focus

Learn how the interrelationship between technology and the final image has shaped photography since its beginnings in the 1830s, and how it later influenced film. A large showcase extends through the centre of the exhibition, focusing on the historical development of equipment and reproduction media. It contains more than 300 objects representing 200 years of photography and film history – from the camera obscura, Le Daguerreotype and normal film cameras to daylight enlargers, projectors, scanners and digital single lens reflex cameras.

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