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Andrew Bruce @AndrewPBruce

Father of 2 boys. Artist. Senior Photographer at The National Gallery. RCA grad. Photography technologist, consultant, writer and lecturer. In E17.

Joined October 2009
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I am no longer using Twitter — For many years I found Twitter the most positive, supportive, intriguing social media platform. So it really is very sad that in such a short space of time it’s transformed into something so radically different.
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I’m doing a talk as part of Westminster Photo Forum @westminphoto next week on my cultural heritage imaging and art practice. Weds 20th Nov, 6.30pm, Regent St Campus. Free. Open to all. No booking required!
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Had the great honour of capturing the first ever National Gallery All Staff photograph. Celebrating 200 years of the National Gallery, the sun came out and over three hundred members of staff congregated in Trafalgar Square for the picture. Photos © The @NationalGallery , London
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Thomas Flynn@nebulousflynn
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Last night I presented the work of the @iiif_io 3D Group to the @AcademySwf USD Working Group. There's lots of shared aspirations between these projects & I hope we can help each other along. Slides here for anyone interested: docs.google.com/presentation… #GLAM3D #interoperability
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PhD studentship opportunity at Imperial College London in collaboration with the National Gallery, focused on the use of machine learning for registration, mosaicking and resolution enhancement for imaging data from artworks. See here: findaphd.com/phds/project/re…
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Museums Association@MuseumsAssoc
28 Mar 2024
News | Nicholas Cullinan named director of the British Museum Head of National Portrait Gallery gets the job - but what's on the agenda for the new director after a tumultuous year? Read: ow.ly/zK9V50R45wT
A black and white portrait of Nicholas Cullinan

ALT A black and white portrait of Nicholas Cullinan
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Come and work with us! We're seeking a photographer to work part-time for a six month project imaging paintings in their frames. A great opportunity to operate fantastic kit, learn about our imaging procedures and work with an incredible collection nationalgalleryjobs.ciphr-ir…
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Love this instagram.com/reel/C4RDrv5SU…

Getty (@gettymuseum) • Instagram reel

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‘I love the dog, the sandals, everything!’: eight artists on their favourite paintings in the National Gallery theguardian.com/artanddesign…

‘I love the dog, the sandals, everything!’: eight artists on their favourite paintings in the...

As the National Gallery in London turns 200, we ask celebrated artists to pick the artwork from the collection that means most to them

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After 38 attacks on art, climate protesters have fallen into big oil’s trap – it’s time to change...

Repetition has blunted the art museum protests so much that the pumpkin soup assault on the Mona Lisa felt pathetic. More effective tactics are needed

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Museum imaging people 👋 Is anyone still successfully using Platypus software (either the standalone or photoshop plugin?) for reducing the visibility of cradles in x-radiographs of paintings?
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I used to use a great feature on photoshop a lot, but forgot exactly how it was done. You would hold a key and use a pipette, then click on an image area in the curves adjustment and it would put a point on the curve on the R, G and B channels separately. Anyone?
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vam.ac.uk/event/vyA7lORVER/d…

Demystifying Museum Careers: The Role of the Museum Photographer - V&A Academy Talk at Online · V&A

Do you want to work in a museum or in the heritage sector, but aren’t sure which roles you should apply to, or where to start?

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ahfap.org.uk/ahfap-conferenc… Excited to be delivering a workshop on Imaging Paintings in photo-mosaics at @NationalGallery upper photography studio alongside Carola van Wijk, Photographer - Technical Imaging at @rijksmuseum . As part of the the 2nd day workshops for @AHFAP conference

Association for Historical and Fine Art Photography

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Are there any commercial services who offer full-spectrum conversions AND bayer CFA removal for silicon sensors? Or is the CFA removal considered too risky to be commercially viable?!
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🤦‍♂️ standard.co.uk/homesandprope…

‘Why is everyone so obsessed with an E17 postcode?’

You can still find sourdough pizza and Victorian homes in Zone 3 while resisting the expensive allure of E17

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Who’s got a beautiful example of using structured light scanning for a project that they might be interested in having featured in a book?
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Interesting to see Fuji’s newest camera offering and the compact digi medium format market evolving m.dpreview.com/reviews/fujif…

Fujifilm GFX 100 II initial review: medium format movie maker

Fujifilm's latest 100MP GFX medium format brings boosts for stills shooters but the real drama is on the movie side of the camera. Find out more...

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melissa terras@melissaterras
1 Sep 2023
It's all about the money, money, money. Wait until folks hear that there is not one library in the entire world with a complete catalogue of their holdings, because there is not time nor resource to do so. Every institution would love a full catalogue. theguardian.com/commentisfre…

Politicians, not curators, are to blame for the British Museum's woes | Charlotte Higgins

The scandal over alleged thefts is a terrible blow for a museum Conservatives have starved of funding and respect, says the Guardian’s chief culture writer Charlotte Higgins

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Come and work with us! 12-month contract for an experienced photographer to capture paintings in their frames as part of the NG Digital Dossiers Project. Details here: nationalgalleryjobs.ciphr-ir…
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