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Frank Sutcliffe
Photographer of Whitby by Michael Hiley
Gordon Fraser Photograpic Monographs : 1
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INSIDE FRONT SLEEVE
As one of the first men to devote his life and creative energy to photography, Sutcliffe moved away from the confines of Victorian photographic conventions which were based on artifice, and set himself the task of photographing the people and the countryside which he saw around him in as truthful and straightforward a manner as his equipment would allow. Although it was not in his character to publicise his own success, he was hailed by his contemporaries as one of the most original and outstanding photographers of his day. Although he rarely left Whitby, his work was known, exhibited and copied all over the world.
Michael Hiley has traced Sutfliffe's writings on photography, many of which are to be found only in newspaper archives, and specialist photographic libraries. Details which they reveal of how Sutcliffe went about his work as a photographer, his opinions on every subejct from the artistic potential of photography to the art of handling recalcitrant babies in the studio, provide a unique insight into the attitudes and preoccupations of a photographer in the late Victorian period.
As the son of a painter, Sutcliffe was aware both of the unique qualities of photoraphy and of the debt it owed to painting. The years of his greatest success were years of unprecedented upheaval in both painting and photorraphy and this book sets out to establish the relationship between Sutcliffe's work and that of the leading photographers and painters of his time.
This book brings together for the first time the best of Sutcliffe's work - pictures taken for his own pleasure from family albums, exhibition photographs which won prizes all over the world, examples of his work as a prfessional portrait photographer, and snapshots from the Kodak collection, which reveal a second burst of creative activity late in his career.
64 duotone plates and over 80 illustrations in the text.
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Frank Sutcliffe in his seventies.
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CONTENTS
List of illustrations in the text
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1 : Childhood
Chapter 2 : Early Ventures in Photography
Chapter 3 : The Failure of a Society Photographer
Chapter 4 : The Trials of a Portrait Photographer
Chapter 5 : 'The Pictorial Boswell of Whitby'
Chapter 6 : Sutcliffe's Style - Water Rats and Other Figure Studies
Chapter 7 : Sutcliffe's Style - The Changing Landscape
Chapter 8 : Photography - 'Art's youngest and fairest Child'
Chapter 9 - New Movements in Photography and Painting
Chapter 10 - Whitby - 'The Photographer's Mecca'
Chapter 11 : Epilogue - The Passing of Sutcliffe's Whitby
A Note on Retouching
PLATES
Notes to the Plates
Notes to the Text
Index
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