'Ring Horses', 1898.

A photograph of a group of horses on a seashore, taken by George Davison [1854-1930] in 1898.  This photograph was printed by the oil transfer process onto satin. In 1898 it was awarded the title of Salon Photograph of the Year.  George Davison was a noted pictorial photographer and a founder member of The Linked Ring in 1892.  From 1897 he was assistant manager of the Eastman Photographic Materials Company, renamed in 1898, Kodak Limited. He became managing director in 1900.  From the Kodak at the National Science & Media Museum. This collection of photographs, equipment and printed material tracing the history of photography, was assembled by Kodak Limited and acquired from them in the mid-1980s. As well as approximately 200,000 photographs, the Collection includes nearly 10,000 items of photographic and cinematic equipment as well as books and printed ephemera. The Collection is especially strong in the area of popular photography. It includes examples of most of the products made by Kodak Limited and thousands of snapshots, dating back to the 1880s. It also contains work by known photographers such as Frank Meadow Sutcliffe and Paul Martin.