Catlin Langford

is a curator and writer specialising in photography.

Writing

Books

Colour Mania: Photographing the World in Autochrome, Thames & Hudson/V&A (2022)

Chapters and Contributions

‘I photomaton, Thou photomatonest’: A photobooth history, in and out of Australia’,Auto Photo: A Life in Portraits, ed. Catlin Langford (Melbourne: Perimeter, 2024).

Staging Isolation: Images of Seclusion and Separation’, Watching, Waiting: The Photographic Representation of Empty Spaces, eds. Sandra Križić Roban and Ana Šverko (Leuven: Leuven University Press, 2023), pp.117-143.

‘Olive Edis’, in Phillip Prodger, An Alternative History of Photography, Prestel (2022).

Journal Articles

‘« L’apanage de tout photographe » : évaluer l’accessibilité de l’autochrome’, Photographica, no. 8 (2024), pp. 20- 35. [“The Common Property of Every Photographer”: Assessing the Accessibility of the Autochrome]

‘Soft, feminine and forgotten: Kate Smith’s autochromes’, The Burlington Magazine, vol. 165, no. 1442 (May 2023), pp. 530-533.

‘”Startling”, “Extraordinarily beautiful”, and “Obtrusive”: Reactions and Responses to the Stereo-Autochrome‘, Journal of Stereo and Immersive Media, vol. 6, no. 1 (2023), pp. 90-103.

‘Urban Inspiration’ RPS Journal (March/April 2022), p.221.

‘The Wallflower’, RPS Journal (November/December 2021), p.669.

‘“Colour Palaces”: The Autochrome Collection at the Victoria and Albert Museum’, Rundbrief Fotografie, vol. 28, no. 3 (2021), pp. 21-8.

‘Freeze Frame’, RPS Journal (July/August 2021), p.445.

‘“Kodak Girls” and royal women: Snapshot photography and its embrace by royal women’, The PhotoHistorian, no. 183 (Spring 2019), pp.24-9.

Online Publications

Articles

Catlin Langford and Stephanie Jamieson, ‘PERCEIVE: Preserving autochromes’, Victoria and Albert Museum, 31 October 2024.

Catlin Langford and Stephanie Jamieson, ‘PERCEIVE: Caring for Autochromes’, Victoria and Albert Museum, 12 September 2024.

Catlin Langford and Stephanie Jamieson, ‘PERCEIVE: New ways of thinking about autochromes’, Victoria and Albert Museum, 10 June 2024.

‘Lisa Sorgini- Behind Glass’, 1000 Words, 2023.

‘Revolution and realities’, Head On Photo Festival, 2022.

‘Grace Robertson: life and work’, V&A, 2021.

Afterlives: Collecting Snapshot Photographs’, Head On Photo Festival, 2021.

‘A Brief History of Photography and Truth, part one’, Photo 2021, International Festival of Photography, 2020.

‘A Brief History of Photography and Truth, part two’, Photo 2021, International Festival of Photography, 2020.

‘Lost and found: Discovering and revealing the histories of women photographers’, Photo Oxford Festival, 2020.

Thematic Guides, Collections and Trails

‘Lee Miller and Surrealist Aesthetics’, part of ’10 Artists You Should Know’, National Gallery of Victoria, 2025.

‘Photographic Technologies’, Prince Albert: His Life and Legacy, 2019.

‘Women Photographers’, Royal Collection Trust, 2018.

‘Portrait Photographs in the Royal Collection’, Royal Collection Trust, 2018.

‘Presentation Albums in the Royal Collection’, Royal Collection Trust, 2018.

‘Teachers Pack for Confusion of Tongues: Art and the Limits of Language’, Courtauld Gallery, 2016.

‘Outdoor Art Highlights’, Adelaide City Explorer, National Trust of South Australia, 2015.