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  1. Snap Judgements

    6/6 A look at the current state of the art, from phone cameras to digital post-production.

  2. We Are Family

    5/6 How the medium translates personal relationships into photographic ones.

  3. Paper Movies

    4/6 A look at the golden age of photographic journeys from the 1950s to the 1970s.

  4. Right Place, Right Time

    3/6 How photographers dealt with dramatic events like D-Day, the Holocaust and Hiroshima.

  5. 1918-1945: Documents for Artists

    2/6 How, in the decades following the First World War, photography was the central medium.

  6. 1800-1914: Fixing the Shadows

    1/6 A look at how the problem of 'fixing the shadows' was solved by two rival methods.