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Mark Haworth-Booth
Mark Haworth-Booth   Senior Curator of Photographs, Victoria and Albert Museum
Terpsichore Five Dollars with Che Lace (Plate XX in 'The Pencil of Nature', 1844-46) Hoddy and John Munro Fishing at Flaipool Whitby Abbey, Yorkshire, from the North East Untitled (ducks) Study from Life The Bedfellows Didmarton Church, Gloucestershire Untitled #. 74 Annemarie Schwarzenbach
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Hoddy and John Munro Fishing at Flaipool
Zoom inHoddy and John Munro Fishing at Flaipool, 1847
Horatio Ross, 1801 - 86
Daguerreotype
" This picture is where snapshot photography begins. It's unlikely that Horatio Ross ever saw a picture of fly-fishing, but he was a great sportsman and like a lot of photographers he'd brought together two things, his passion for sport and his passion for photography, and by doing that he brought together two things and made something new - great pictures of his favourite pastimes. "

Text adapted from spoken dialogue
Mark Haworth-Booth Other comments: Liz Jobey Sixth form students
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