Historian, broadcaster and museum director who was the founding head of the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford
Colin Ford, who has died aged 91, was an enthusiastic promoter of photography in all its forms. As the founding head of the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television, Bradford (1982-93; renamed the National Science and Media Museum in 2017), he aimed to make the science and art of photography and moving images accessible to all.
From 1972 he had been the inaugural keeper of photography and film at the National Portrait Gallery in London, the first such role at a national museum. During his previous seven years as deputy curator of the National Film Archive (now the BFI National Archive), he proposed that the NPG show film portraits of prominent British figures.
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