1990
Peter Miller: Nightscapes: [British: contemporary]
The work of a
contemporary photographer who explores light as a
minimalist. The use of extremely long exposures to form
images where relationships invert and distort, posing
questions concerning our perception of the world. Spring
1990.
WHF
Talbot in France May-June 1843 [British: 19th Century] An
in-depth study of Talbot’s first extensive
photographic visit to Paris and selected cities to the
south. Placed in the context of his numerous notebooks,
diaries and correspondence. 40 Images exhibited as
contemporary salt paper prints based upon a section of the
larger 1989 exhibition. Spring 1991.
1991
Shadows and light; the work of the Reverend Francis
Lockey [British: 19th Century]
the first comprehensive architectural photographic study of
the city of Bath taken between 1849 and 1858, using WHF
Talbot’s Calotype process. A travelling exhibition of
60 new Silver / salt paper prints taken from the original
negatives using the methods described earlier. First
exhibited at the Royal Photographic Society, Bath, Alkmaar,
Holland and at the Fox Talbot Museum. Lacock. June/July
1991
1992
Imaginary Museum Jean Claude Mougin [French: contemporary] The
work of a French photographer / teacher / philosopher, Jean
Claude Mougin, in which he constructs a group of images as
sets with complex cross-relationships which speak not only
about the past, but also about a possible future fate of
the present. 44 Palladium Prints. Autumn 1992.
1992 Hans
Namuth: Los Todos Santos [German / American: 20th
Century] The work of the German born photographer, who
until 1992 lived in New York. His study of this small group
of native Indians of a period of some 20 years is a
remarkable human document and an invaluable ethnological
study. Following his untimely death in October 1992 his
work was exhibited also at the Scottish National Portrait
gallery in Edinburgh.
1994
Alfred & John Bool and Henry Dixon: London
[British 19th
Century] Exhibition based upon the Guildhall Libraries
holdings of their remarkable photographic record of the
building of the Holborn Viaduct Farringdon Road Development
in the city of London. Exhibited at the London Guildhall
and the Fox Talbot Museum
1996
Naoya Hatakeyama Limeworks [Japanese: contemporary]
Origins of the city: Hatakeyama’s work is monumental
in scale and breadth. His photographs are simple yet
complex. His subject matter is quarries, the large and
extensive scars which are modernity’s most enduring
and controversial inheritance. These are the great negative
voids which were transformed into the modern city. March to
June 1996.
1996 Dick
Arentz Recent Work [American: contemporary]:
A stunning series of varied images taken at locations and
sites drawn together to by the photographer’s
distinctive vision and selective understanding of both the
sense of place and the unique visual possibilities inherent
in the use of the large format Panorama camera and the
Platinum process. 38 original hand made prints. September
to October 1996.
1996
William Graystone Bird [British, 19/20th Century]
A little known British Pictorialist photographer from the
turn of the 20th century who captured the life and times of
fishing and farming communities in the south-west of
Britain. Due to the destruction of his Bath studio in 1937
three generation of the Bird family’s photographic
negatives and prints were destroyed with the demolition of
the building. His work is now extremely rare. From a
private collection. 44 Silver bromide prints from lantern
slides. Autumn 1996.