Facilities
Autograph ABP's Photographic Archive - opening in 2010
With the support of a major grant from the Heritage Lottery Fund,
Autograph
ABP is developing the UK’s first permanent public print collection and
digital resource dedicated to culturally diverse photography – a long
overdue project with the potential to transform the way Britain’s
cultural history is represented.
Horace Ové, Walking Proud, London 1970s.
The Archive and Research Centre for Culturally Diverse Photography
will be the UK’s first print and digital resource for a collection of photographs documenting the emergence of post-war Britain as a multicultural society.
Through a programme of preserving, cataloguing and digitising, the photographs will form a digital learning resource featuring a range of interpretative materials . In addition to a series of public events and educational activities, including Artist-in-schools residencies, we will take a photography road show to major English cities where members of the public will have the opportunity to make their own contribution to this historic resource - from the back of a van, images will be digitised and catalogued to transform the collection into a continuously growing, living archive.
Over a period of four years, the Archive and Research Centre will be created as a permanent collection of photographs and online picture library. This modern collection of historical photographs will range in genre from constructed high street studio portraits and family snapshots to social documentary and fine art photography. Autograph’s existing collection of artists’ commissions will be enhanced through the addition of newly curated portfolios and vernacular photographs.
The archive will open to the public in the Autumn 2010
- admission will be free.
Further Information:
Please contact Renée Mussai, Archive Project Manager, Autograph ABP
direct line 020 7749 1263 or e-mail renee@autograph-abp.co.uk
