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== RIBA Library Photographs Collection

History

The RIBA Library Photographs Collection is part of the British Architectural Library. The Library was founded in 1834 as part of the Royal Institute of British Architects. The Library is the largest and most comprehensive resource in Britain for research and information on all aspects of architecture. For more information go to www.architecture.com.

The RIBA Library Photographs Collection contains 1.5 million images of architecture world-wide in a variety of formats: negatives; prints; 5x4 and 35mm colour transparencies; postcards; and digital files. The earliest photographs in the collection date from the 1850s. In addition to the work of acknowledged photographic masters such as Francis Bedford and Tony Ray-Jones and architectural photographers like Dell and Wainwright and Eric de Maré, the collection holds the archives of several of the foremost architectural and topographical photographers of the 20th century, among them John Maltby, Colin Westwood, John McCann, Henk Snoek, Alastair Hunter, Crispin Boyle, John Donat and Edwin Smith. The Collection also houses the archive of the Architectural Press, the publishers of the Architectural Review and Architects' Journal. Details of the collection content can be found in text format through the Library catalogue at www.architecture.com.

Using the RIBA Library Photographs Collection

The Collection is a working archive which is heavily used by practising architects, researchers, historians, the media and the general public from all over the world.

Material from the Collection can be supplied for exhibition either in its original form or in the form of copies, both in Britain and abroad and the Collection has also curated a number of exhibitions both at the headquarters of the RIBA and other venues.

Images in the RIBA Library Photographs Collection can also be purchased as prints for private display.

RIBApix

Images from the RIBA Library Photographs Collection can be accessed online at www.ribapix.com. RIBApix is the online image database of the British Architectural Library. It is the world’s most extensive visual archive devoted to architecture with over 30,000 images online. The database encompasses photographs, drawings and engravings, covers world architecture of all periods together with related subjects such as design, landscape, topography, planning, construction and the decorative arts. Many of its unique images are also of social documentary importance.

New images are being added all the time to RIBApix and the British Architectural Library has an active programme of digitisation. All images on RIBApix are the copyright of the RIBA but low resolution copies may be downloaded free of charge for personal use or teaching purposes.

Visiting

Access to the British Architectural Library is free of charge (photographic identification required) and access to the RIBA Library Photographs Collection is by appointment.

The collection is located at: Royal Institute of British Architects, 66 Portland Place, London, W1B 1AD, UK.