The Stephen H Tyng Permanent Collection

In 1965, Francis Wu’s “Vanity Fair” was included in the permanent collection of Stephen H. Tyng. The Royal Photographic Society holds the collection.

The late Stephen H. Tyng, a New York businessman joined the Royal Photographic Society in the early years of the century. He paid a number of visits to England during which he practiced landscape work under the guidance of A.C. Banfield and Bertram Cox. In appreciation to the help given him, he established a fund for the acquisition of outstanding examples of pictorial photography.

"Vanity Fair" by Francis Wu 1949

The Pictorial Group Committee, which appoints the Trustees of the Fund and the selectors of the prints. The selectors are appointed annually and are empowered to purchase photographic works, which they deem to be a true cross section of good contemporary pictorial work. This collection started in 1927.