The V&A – which is not a contemporary photo gallery but a museum – currently has only a very small room for photography, but fully half of the pictures were less than 10 years old and (you guessed it) printed very large, in colour, and were conceptual.

Whether you like this type of work is, of course, a subjective matter – personally I can think of no other art form that, so soon after it’s creation, has concentrated so hard on making itself mundane – but surely the balance is wrong? Is the collection really so lacking in good pictures from the previous 150 years?