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Humphrey Spender's Humanist Landscapes
Deborah Frizzell
Humphrey Spender
Yale Center for British Art
Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
其他書名
Photo-documents, 1932-1942
出版
Yale Center for British Art/Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art
, 1997
主題
Photography / Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions / General
ISBN
0300073348
9780300073348
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=hAphQgAACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Working for the new illustrated weekly magazine Picture Post and for Mass Observation, a project to survey British society, photographer Humphrey Spender (born 1910) produced a body of powerful and poignant photographs in the decade from 1932 to 1942. His photographs embody with lucidity, detail, and breadth an entire complex of social relations in Depression-era and wartime Britain. This illustrated book examine Spender's photography in depth. Deborah Frizzell shows how Spender's influential work came to play a key role in the development of British documentary and photojournalism. Frizzell, who has worked closely with Spender in preparing the book, analyzes the aesthetic, critical, and art historical importance of his work within the genesis of British photojournalism; the place of his work within the broader dialogue of the British documentary movement; and the functions of his work within the context of the Mass Observation cultural anthropology project. She discusses how his merging of individual drama with an evolving social consciousness is at the heart of the British documentary movement and is paralleled in the prose and poetry of the Auden Generation and especially in the concerns of Stephen Spender, Humphrey's older brother. Illustrated with some seventy of Spender's own photographs, the volume also offers reproductions of drawings, prints, and paintings by such contemporaries as Humphrey Jennings, William Coldstream, and Graham Bell, and photographs by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Bill Brandt.