Two centuries of photo history go on show at London museum

Charting two centuries of photographic history from the early pioneers to digital smartphone snappers, London’s Victoria & Albert Museum opened its new Photography Centre this week. The exhibition “tells the story of photography as a way of collecting the world, from the medium’s invention to today,” V&A director Tristram Hunt told reporters on Wednesday. “In an era when everyone’s iPhone makes them a photographer, the V&A’s Photography Centre explores and explains the medium in a compelling way,” he said, showing off the four new galleries. Museum-goers enter the galleries through an installation of more than 150 cameras spanning 160 years. Visitors can handle cameras from throughout the age