An excellent overview of the recent exhibition (September 2013- March 2014) of work by Tony Ray-Jones. The first to be held at the London Science Museum Media Space, a new area devoted to ‘photography and art’.
A review by Brian Human of Only in England, an exhibition of work by Tony Ray-Jones and Martin Parr, held at the Science Museum, London, 2013-2014.Continue reading “Only in England – Review”
I learned this week that nearly a year ago Robert Elwall, the photographic historian and photographs curator at the Royal Institute of British Architects, had died.
The cover of ‘English Cathedrals’.Olive’s dedication to me on the inside cover.
In 1990, Olive Cook gave me a signed and dedicated copy of ‘English Cathedrals‘, which had just been published. In the Foreword she says that the book was needed because relatively few of Edwin’s photographs of cathedrals had ever been published, yet it was a subject to which he was considerably drawn.
This article was first published in the March/April 1981 edition of Creative Camera magazine, a special double issue entitled ‘British Photography Now’. Moore was talking to art historian Ian Jeffrey, and the interview took place just prior to the opening of Moore’s major retrospective, held at London’s Hayward Gallery. This show was only the second exhibition by a living British photographer to be held there. The first had been Bill Brandt in 1970.
This article was the first time Raymond Moore had work published in a photographic magazine. It is from Issue 36 of Camera Owner in June 1967, the precursor of Creative Camera, and was written by J S Lewinski.
This is a copy of the introductory text, written by Peter Turner, that accompanied the portfolio of twenty-four photographs by Raymond Moore in the Creative Camera International Year Book 1977. It includes an abridged interview between Turner and Moore.
In 1984, in the September 15 edition of Amateur Photographer, David Brittain (later to become editor of Creative Camera) wrote an article entitled ‘Moore Land’.
Whilst inevitably geared in part to the kind of readership that Amateur Photographer attracts, the article was a thorough and enlightening look into Moore’s approach to making what he himself called ‘shots’.
This is a copy of the introductory text, written by Peter Turner, that accompanied the portfolio of twenty-four photographs by Raymond Moore in the Creative Camera International Year Book 1977. It includes an abridged interview between Turner and Moore.
