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Ruth Quinn

@ruthquinn.bsky.social

Curator of image making and taking, brittle plates and papery memories, pixels, brass lenses, plastic boxes all the miscellaneous things that make up a photographic collection. Bradford, West Yorks.

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Ruth Quinn @ruthquinn.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

The National Science and Media Museum are looking for a fixed term Curator of Photography & Photographic Technology (I'm off to grow a small human). It's a great job, wonderful collections, best colleagues and an exciting time to be in Bradford. Please share. ce0111li.webitrent.com/ce0111li_web...

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Ruth Quinn @ruthquinn.bsky.social · 19/12/2024

A short thread: Memes, the Kodak Gallery and thinking about photographic archives pretty much sums up my work year in review! www.thetelegraphandargus.co.uk/news/2480516...

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'Absolute unit' meme to be placed on display in Bradford museum

The National Science and Media Museum is set to display its first digitally born object - the 'absolute unit' meme.

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Charlotte Connelly @curatorconnelly.bsky.social · 06/12/2023

This looks like an AMAZING opportunity. The RGS has such wonderful and somewhat underloved object collections. The person who gets to do this would be in a position to shine the light on some fantastic objects with extraordinary stories. Doing a 2nd doctorate would be excessive, right? #histsci 📜

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Dr Sara Dominici @saradominici.bsky.social · 08/12/2023

PhD 🚨! Interested in finding out how camera & train interactions shaped ideas of leisure and heritage in Britain 1880s-1930s? Apply for this CDA with me, @drhesslee.bsky.social @ruthquinn.bsky.social Oliver Betts & Pippa Catterral! Applications deadline: 05 January www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DEK361/p...

Photographs from article discussing how to take snapshots from a moving train. Printed in 1903 in the journal Amateur Photographer.

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Ruth Quinn @ruthquinn.bsky.social · 30/11/2023

PhD Klaxon! At the National Science and Media Museum and National Railway Museum. That's right, PHOTOGRAPHY AND TRAINS. The project will explore how cameras and rail travel shaped experiences of the British countryside and leisure between 1880 & 1930. www.westminster.ac.uk/study/postgr...

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Techne Collaborative Doctoral Award (CDA) Studentship: Photography by Train | University of Westmins...

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