Past Exhibitions
Photograph Collections
Long Gallery
The Long Gallery (ground floor) showing the exhibition
'Disciples of a Crazy Saint' (2010–11)Christian Thompson: We Bury Our Own
26 June 2012 – 17 February 2013
The Nature of Curious Objects:
Sue Johnson's Paper Museum,
24 January – 10 June 2012
People Apart: Cape Town Survey 1952
Photographs by Bryan Heseltine
19 July 2011 – 8 January 2012
Disciples of a Crazy Saint: The Buchen of Spiti.
Photographs by Patrick Sutherland
9 December 2010 – 3 July 2011
The Burial of Emperor Haile Selassie:
Photographs by Peter Marlow
22 April – 21 November 2010 (pdf)
Caro
lyn Drake: Photographs of Central Asia
14 May – 15 November 2009 (extended
to 28 February 2010)(pdf)
Studio Cameroon: The Everyday Photography of
Jacques Touselle
9 November 2007 – 30 June 2008 (pdf)
Archive Case
Documenting Pitt-Rivers: New Acquisitions
The archive display case (first floor) showing 'The Last Samurai'
(2011)10 September 2012 – 6 January 2013
Reading the Ruins: Alfred Maudslay and the Maya
Site of Quirigua, Guatemala
16 April – 2 September 2012
The Colonial Album
9 January – 8 April 2012
A Pioneer of Prehistory: Dorothy Garrod and the Caves of
Mount Carmel
26 September 2011 – 8 January 2012 (pdf)
The Last Samurai: Jacques-Philippe Potteau's Photographs
of the Japanese Missions to Europe, 1862 and 1864
11 April – 18 September 2011
Among the Pueblos: John K. Hillers (1843–1925),
Photographer of the American Southwest
22 November 2010 – 27 March 2011(pdf)
G. D. Aked: Photographs of East Asia, 1937–8
19 July – 14 November 2010 (pdf)
Albania and the Balkans: Drawings and Photographs
from the Edith Durham Collection
1 February – 4 July 2010
John Bradford: Pioneer of Landscape Archaeology
2 October 2009 – 31 January 2010(pdf)
Across the Caucasus: Photographs and Manuscripts from the John F. Baddeley
Collection
1 May – 29 September 2009 (pdf)
The
Persian Photographs of Antoin Sevruguin
7 April – 29 June 2008
Photo-icons: Religious Images from Romania
27 September – 20 December 2004
Congo Journey: Photographs and Documents from Robert Hottot’s Expedition to
Central Africa, 1908–9
21 June – 26 September 2004
We Are the People: People and Things (postcards from the collection of Tom Phillips)
4 March – 20 June 2004
Wilfred Thesiger: Prints and Albums
8 December 2003 – 29 February 2004
Prince Roland Bonaparte's Omaha Portraits,1886
23 August – 7 December 2003
Other photography exhibitions
The Special Exhibition Gallery showing' Wilfred Thesiger in
Africa' (2010–11). Photograph by Adrian ArbibThe Pitt Rivers Museum has curated a number of exhibitions from its collections
and by contemporary photographers from the 1980s. These were usually held at
the Museum’s Balfour Building on Banbury Road, but occasionally at the main
museum site in the old temporary exhibition space, which was dismantled in
2008. The list below relates to exhibitions held at the Museum, and does not
include exhibitions elsewhere to which photographs were loaned. We hope to
make further information and related resources about these exhibitions available
on this webpage in due course.
Wilfred Thesiger in Africa: A Centenary Exhibition
4 June 2010 – 5 June 2011
Wilfred Thesiger’s Iraq, 1949–1958: Photographs of Travel
Fox Talbot Museum (National Trust), Lacock, 29 July – 21 October 2004; Pitt
Rivers Museum, 18 December 2004 – 15 January 2006 (extended to 17 April
2006)
Seeing Lhasa: British Depictions of the Tibetan Capital, 1936–1947
7 September 2003 – 30 November 2004
Acts of Faith: Contemporary Brazilian Photography (Curated by PRM at Ashmolean
Museum)
25 October 2001 – 3 February 2002
Our Man in Ladakh: Himalayan Photographs by Colonel R. C. F. Schomberg
September 2001 – July 2002
Ladakh: Himalayan Photographs by Karl-Einer Löfqvist
14 October 1999 – 15 April 2000
West African Journeys: 12 albums of photographs – Senegal, Cote d’Ivoire,
Mali, Burkina Faso, Ghana, Togo – by Michael Pennie
17 June – 18 September 1999
Pacific Islanders: Photographs by Evotia Tamua
19 March – 12 June 1999
Home of Signs and Wonders: A Photographic Work in Progress from Nigeria by
Owen Logan
22 January – 10 April 1999
Imaginary Homecoming: Photographs by Jorma Puranen
27 November 1998 – 20 February 1999
Going Home: Continuity and Change in Modern Mongolia. Photographs by Barbara
Hind
26 June – October 1998
Women’s Lives: An Ethnographic Journal (Photographs by Beatrice Blackwood)
March – June 1998
Arctic Lives: Photographs by Bryan Alexander
10 January – 15 March 1997
Native American Photographs: Nineteenth-Century Images from the Collections
18 May – 28 September 1996
Picturing Paradise: Colonial Photography in Samoa, 1875–1925 (touring exhibition)
18 May – 2 September 1995
Wilfred Thesiger’s Photographs: A “Most Cherished Possession”
16 June 1993 – 27 February 1994; touring venues thereafter.
Wamo. D’Entrecasteaux Island, New Guinea, 1911–1912: Photographs by Diamond
Jenness
1 June 1991 – 23 May 1992
Tibet – A Great Mountain Land: Photographs by Sir Charles Bell, 1920-21
3 October 1987 – 27 February 1988
Images of China, 1908–1912 (Henry Laver Collection)
19 January – December 1985
