How We Are Photographing Britain

by Williams, Val; Bright, Susan; Parr, Martin

• ISBN13: 9781854377142
• ISBN10: 1854377140
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-09-01
• Publisher: Tate

Summary

This is the first book to tell the story of British photography as a coherent whole, from the pioneers of the early 19th century to photographers today who display their images on websites, on computer screenseven iPods. The authors have traveled the length and breadth of the UK, researching both well-known and forgotten bodies of work. Many famous names are here: Henry Fox Talbot, Lewis Carroll, Julia Margaret Cameron, Bill Brandt, Madame Yeronde, Angus McBean, Susan Lipper, and Tom Hunter are just a few. Among the works shown are postcards, family albums, photographic illustrations in books, medical photographs, wartime propaganda, and social documents. Through their exhaustive research the authors demonstrate the extraordinary range and diversity of roles that photography has played in British cultural life over the past 150 years.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 7
Introduction	p. 8
Harking Back: Loss and Longing in Nineteenth-Century British Photography	p. 10
Marks on the Flesh: Character, Costume and Performance in British Photography	p. 16
First Moves 1840-1900	p. 25
Into the Twentieth Century 1900-1918	p. 63
New Freedoms in Photography 1918-1945	p. 81
The New Britain 1945-1969	p. 107
The Urge to Document 1970-1990	p. 137
Reflections on a Strange Country 1990-2007	p. 160
Our Back Pages	p. 190
We are All Photographers Now	p. 198
Selected Biographies	p. 208
List of Exhibited Works	p. 224
Acknowledgements	p. 235
Lenders to the Exhibition	p. 236
Index	p. 237
Credits	p. 239
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