Photo Histories

Thanks @mikeyp4 & #BritishPhotographicHistory for mentioning Grace Robertson & Thurston Hopkins @PhotoHistories... "Alerted to the young Robertson by #ValWilliams, @ViragoBooks aligned Grace’s optimistic 1950s imagery with Virago’s “sense of possibility".. britishphotohistory.ning.com/profiles/blogs…

Grace Robertson & Thurston Hopkins on Picture Post & Simon Guttmann founder @Report_Digital .. THURSTON: Everybody on Picture Post feared him but he was… GRACE: So rude! THURSTON: …a remarkable man, coming up with ideas continuously, picture story ideas: photohistories.org/histories/grac…

"Picture Post’s office was battered the lift sounded as though it was in its death throes.. LIFE, Old Bond Street... the carpet came up to your knees.. a lift which took you to the editorial floor.. all money everywhere." Grace Robertson & Thurston Hopkins photohistories.org/histories/grac…

NEW on PHOTO HISTORIES: “To say photography is intrusive is a load of nonsense. All you are doing is plucking an invisible moment out and making it last” - Picture Post photographers Grace Robertson & Thurston Hopkins in conversation, 2011 (90 minute read) photohistories.org/histories/grac…

@PhotoHistories is @Kunsthalle_DA Thursday 18 NOV 19:30 local time / 18:30 UK time. Award-winning film maker & curator Ralph Goertz & @_grahamharrison on Ralph's show FACING BRITAIN: BRITISH DOCUMENTARY PHOTOGRAPHY SINCE THE 1960s. Thanks @BritishCouncil! kunsthalle-darmstadt.de/Program_3_1_gi…

Excellent thinking from our friends @ukpcn who will be delivering free online workshops & talks from their web site photocollections.org.uk from next week. Subjects to include "photographic conservation, writing from collections, interpretation of photographs and more" say @ukpcn

•Due to Corvid-19 the RPS are cancelling all workshops, talks and other events between now and the end of April. Consequently, 'Never Stop Looking' with Graham Harrison set for April 23rd has been cancelled. Hopefully, we can reschedule to later this year rps.org/what-s-on/

@_grahamharrison @The_RPS • Due to Corvid-19 pandemic the RPS are cancelling all workshops, talks & other events, in Bristol & elsewhere, between now & the end of April. Consequently 'Never Stop Looking' set for April 23rd has been cancelled. Hopefully, we will be able to reschedule to later this year •

'Never Stop Looking' with @_grahamharrison. From photographic assignments for the Telegraph Sunday Magazine, Vogue and the British Museum to @PhotoHistories, the photographers’ history of photography. Talk @The_RPS HQ Bristol, Thursday April 23rd 1830-2000 rps.org/events/bristol…

'Never Stop Looking' with @_grahamharrison. From photographic assignments for the Telegraph Sunday Magazine, Vogue and the British Museum to @PhotoHistories, the photographers’ history of photography. Talk @The_RPS HQ Bristol, Thursday April 23rd 1830-2000 rps.org/events/bristol…

Prof Larry Schaaf deliveres 2020 Colin Ford Lecture @ Weston Lib, Oxford last night. 'The Future of the Past' described Schaaf's 40 years examing the work of WH Fox Talbot & the compiling of Talbot's images into online catalogue raisonne talbot.bodleian.ox.ac.uk @The_RPS @richove

@OliveEaton16 @paddydocherty @bodleianlibs @richove @NPGLondon @guardian None of which means Hedgecoe wasn't a photographer or arguably his best work wasn't the portraits one can see on the NPG site, as stated. For more perceptive & engaged photos of similar British creatives suggest Snowdon's 'Private View' (1965) aslo @ NPG: npg.org.uk/collections/se…

@PhotoHistories @paddydocherty @bodleianlibs @richove @NPGLondon @guardian Afraid I don't. Remember what I saw, heard from his RCA students. Later, a series of his prints which imo denigrated young women photographed. Also an episode that concerned. Suggest many men in media attained accolades, reputations, and power. Which they abused. Imo it matters.

@bodleianlibs acquires 2,300 photobooks. Exhibition planned "in due course" says Bodley's Librarian @richove. HCB, Man Ray & Diane Arbus included in vast gift from publisher Charles Chadwyck-Healey - who worked with photographer John Hedgecoe in 1960s ... apollo-magazine.com/acquisitions-o…

@OliveEaton16 @paddydocherty @bodleianlibs @richove @NPGLondon @guardian No @OliveEaton16. There's a lot of information about John Hedgecoe on the internet and amazon has many Hedgecoe books which may seem somewhat dated to some. A quick scan (& you might agree with this perhaps?) that his most enduring work is @NPGLondon here npg.org.uk/whatson/displa…

@PhotoHistories @paddydocherty @bodleianlibs @richove @NPGLondon @guardian Were you a student of his?

@OliveEaton16 @paddydocherty @bodleianlibs @richove Hedgecoe was staff photographer @ Queen magazine 1957-72. Also author of over 30 photography books & emeritus professor at the RCA where he established the photo dept in 1965. Artist portraits @NPGLondon here: npg.org.uk/whatson/displa… & @guardian obit here: theguardian.com/artanddesign/2…

@PhotoHistories @paddydocherty @bodleianlibs @richove was John Hedgecoe really a photographer?

Daniel Meadows: Now & Then @ Weston Library, Oxford until 24 Nov. With DM @ PV was John Payne who DM photographed in Portsmouth holding a pigeon called Chequer, & Bodley's lib Richard Ovenden who holds a copy of DM's book with Daniel's 1974 photo of John and Chequer on the cover.

@kendrajbean @mediamuseum @CuratorGeoff @AnnieKJamieson @Kodak Re Angus McBean pix there's the Harvard Library; the Mander & Mitchenson Collection, University of Bristol Theatre Collection; the V&A & the NPG in London; the Royal National Theatre Archive & the Shakespeare Centre Library & Archive, Stratford. See here.. library.harvard.edu/collections/an…

Josef Koudelka, Don McCullin, Roman Vishniac, Anna Atkins and Cindy Sherman are among the shows worth considering in 2019.. once the snows have melted. This and more on @PhotoHistories starting here... photohistories.com/events-competi… @kasteelhelmond, @tatebritain, @tpgallery, @npglondon

Forty years ago, as a young photographer assigned by the Telegraph Sunday Mag to photograph the Fine Rooms & the precious artefacts belonging to @royalsociety, my task was to produce some interesting, publishable photographs: blogs.royalsociety.org/history-of-sci… @somersethouse @courtauldgall

Anna Atkins's cyanotype images of seaweeds were created & bound into 3 volumes to accompany William Henry Harvey's unillustrated 'British Algae' of 1841. @roseteanby & I photographed these 4 priceless books together @royalsociety, prob for 1st time ever... blogs.royalsociety.org/history-of-sci…

'Who Was Britain’s First Female Photographer?' @RoseTeanby's lecture @NPGLondon on 3 May 2018 examines pioneering work undertaken by five women in late C18th & early C19th Britain following new research with @PhotoHistories. More #VictorianGiants! Tickets: npg.org.uk/whatson/event-…