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12201033459?profile=originalThe Daily Herald: The anatomy of a newspaper photographic archive. I am working on a Collaborative Doctoral Award (with the PHRC at De Montfort University, and the National Media Museum) researching the image making practices of the Daily Herald newspaper. Using the original photographs, records and filing categorisation I aim to draw out the day-to-day activity of the Daily Herald and its photographic and archival practice.

I am keen to undertake a series of oral history interviews to get first-hand accounts of routine working practices. I hope to interview staff and agency photographers, but also the other professions involved in the commissioning, selecting, editing and storage of images for the paper: picture editors, printers, darkroom and library staff - anyone who was involved in the cycle of production and use of images in the newspaper.

If you'd like to know more, or if you or one of your contacts would be interested and willing to participate, please get in touch with me. I will then send further information about the research, and how the information will be used, and answer any questions.

Thanks

Rebecca Smith
e: p15228002@myemail.dmu.ac.uk

Image: James Jarché, A group of press photographers wait to take a photograph of the King, Daily Herald archive, 1983-5236/10458
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12200972696?profile=originalWe at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts have been investigating the early London career of British photographer Florence Vandamm, who worked in NYC from 1924 to her retirement in 1962.  We discovered that she opened her first studio in London in 1908.  This site has been very helpful at providing resources and links. 

The exhibition (Pioneering Poet of Light: Florence Vandamm & the Vandamm Studio) will open in mid-September and runs through the end of February.  Please visit. Click here: http://www.nypl.org/events/exhibitions/poet-light-florence-vandamm-vandamm-studio

We are blogging about Vandamm's work on the Library's www.nypl.org.  You can find them in he Vandamm channel or under my name.

Image: Re-discovered image from a glass negative of the Theatre Guild's 1928 production of Faust, NYPL. 

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