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A new exhibition at the V&A Museum, London, explore its origins, adaptations and reinventions over 157 years of Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland from manuscript to a global phenomenon beloved by all ages. Photography from Lewis Carroll to Julia Margaret Cameron features in the exhibition of course and is also the subject of an online essay 'The real Alice in Wonderland'. 

For details of the exhibition which is due to open on 27 March (but check the date as a result of COVID) see: https://www.vam.ac.uk/exhibitions/alice-curiouser-and-curiouser

To read the essay see: https://www.vam.ac.uk/articles/the-real-alice-in-wonderland

Image: Alice Liddell aged 7, photographed by Charles Dodgson (Lewis Carroll) in 1860. Wikimedia commons.

A new web site conceived by journalist and broadcaster Barry Fox has been launched to bring together more than 100 years of technology industry photography in one place. The aptly-named www.tekkiepix.com features a multitude of historic photos spanning more than a century of technical milestones and product launches – and the fascinating stories behind them.

2021 heralds the fiftieth anniversary of home video recording and the introduction of the consumer video cassette recorder – and this is just one of the industry breakthroughs documented by this unique site. For example, type ‘U-matic’ in the search field to discover when the first video recorder went on sale and to reveal who manufactured it.

No subscriptions or fees are required to use the site, which is a completely free, non-profit treasure trove of pictures and articles covering the history of home gadgetry before the days of Apple, Google, YouTube, Spotify and Netflix. Tekkiepix also includes a comprehensive timeline of consumer technology landmarks starting from 1877.

Founder Barry Fox commented, “Tekkiepix has taken a great deal of time, investment and hard work to prepare and publish. The Covid lockdowns have provided the opportunity for me to sort, digitise and meticulously index many piles of press and publicity photos that I had been storing in my garage and attic.”

So far, many hundreds of rare pictures have been processed and posted, along with the intriguing stories behind each image. As a keen photographer, many of these pictures were captured by Barry personally at numerous product launch events, while others were issued by technology manufacturers over the years. Barry carefully archived the collection rather than disposing of the images. He added, “Tekkiepix is giving these publicity pictures the chance of a second life.”

There is much more material to be added, with boxes of negatives and transparencies still to be scanned, and Barry hopes that through donations from enthusiasts, or perhaps sponsorship by an interested organisation, he can expand Tekkiepix much further: “I have added a Donate button to encourage contributions. Through this support, I’ll be able to build the site and turn it into an even more valuable and educational resource for younger generations to appreciate in the future.”

Many of the companies that originally distributed the pictures to the media for PR purposes have long since closed or been sold, and Barry believes this may be the only lasting record of these historically important photographs.

Over the past six months, Barry has been generously assisted by former technology magazine editor Richard Dean in professionally re-vamping and expanding the original ‘DIY’ site design, with support from photographer and website designer John Kentish.

See: https://tekkiepix.com/

Bonhams' auction of Travel and Exploration on 10 February includes an album of mountaineering photographs by William F Donkin and Vittorio Sella, dating from the 1880s. It is estimated at £6000-8000. Donkin was a member of the Photographic Society from 1881 until his death in a mountaineering accident in 1888 and the Society's honorary secretary. 

The catalogue entry notes: William Frederick Donkin died, aged 43, during a climbing expedition to the Caucasus in 1888. Fêted at the time of his premature death, with a retrospective exhibition of his work held at the instigation of the Alpine Club (of which he was honorary secretary from 1885-1888) and Photographic Society in 1889, Donkin has subsequently been overshadowed by the longer lived Sella. This is undoubtedly due to the lack of details known about his life (no entry on ODNB) and scarcity of his works. The current album includes many views attributed to him.

The album was originally with The Rucksack Society. 

See the full catalogue entry here.

Hundred Heroines which celebrates women in photography is presenting an online symposium to discuss the work of the Heroines showcased in its Anemoia online gallery, It will have some special guests and will include a Q&A.

Chaired by Haley Drolet (Research Assistant, Faculty of History, Oxford University). Hundred Heroines will welcome Amanda Hopkinson, Ralph Harrington, Monika Baker and Jean Bubley to discuss the work of Edith Tudor Hart, Berenice Abbott, Homai Vyarawalla, Fanny Foster, Esther Bubley, Gerti Deutsch and Nancy Sheung. They are all featured in the exhibition. The event promises to give new insight to the life and work of these Heroines.

The full programme will be announced on the Hundred Heroines website shortly.

Bookings can be made here

Click here to join the Hundred Heroines mailing list for updates.

Image: Homai Vyarawalla. Rehana Mogul and Mani Turner at work in sculpture class at the J.J. School of Arts. A live male model can be seen in the background. Bombay, late 1930s. HV Archive/Alkazi Collection of Photography

Recent scholarship surrounding the development, use, and reuse of colour photography has highlighted the need for more research and debate about photographic colour, in terms of histories, technologies and the emotions they have affected. Long told as merely a triumphalist history of technological achievement, colour photography is steeped as well in controversy, in the re-telling of history, in activism, in politics of individuals, communities and countries. Colour photography, while a boon to some, has been developed and deployed at the expense of others. The PHRC seeks contributions especially from scholars who seek to make the voices of such individuals and communities heard.

In this 9th annual conference of the PHRC we invite papers addressing contemporary debates in and around colour photography. We invite short abstracts of 150-200 words on topics that address themes like:

• Historical and contemporary uses of colourisation
• Emotional and affective responses to colour photography
• Industrial histories
• Activist and political uses of colour in photography
• Colour photography in race and identity politics

Due to the nature of online conferencing, PHRC will innovate its format this year, and thus we are seeking very short abstracts of 150-200 words, and up to 5 keywords for a 15-minute presentation.

Please send abstracts for consideration to phrc@dmu.ac.uk by 26 February 2021 - including name, contact details and institutional affiliation (when applicable).

Photography and Its Many Colours. Innovations, Emotions and Activism
14-15 June 2021
ONLINE via Microsoft Teams (De Montfort University, Leicester UK)
Follow on Twitter: @PHRC_DeMontfort
Conference hashtag #PHRC21

Image: Patricia Wilder 

Farleys House & Gallery is presenting Lee Miller: Fashion in Wartime Britain, a major exhibition opening on 21 March 2021. The exhibition will explore the under recognised body of fashion photography made by the renowned surrealist photographer during the Second World War. It will feature over 60 of Miller’s images for British Vogue from 1939 to early 1944, many of which have never been seen before. The exhibition will be accompanied by a major new publication, featuring over 100 recently archived images.  

This important aspect of Lee Miller’s wartime work has previously been overshadowed by her role as a front line correspondent in the final years of the war. New research, undertaken for the exhibition and book, on Miller’s wartime diaries has uncovered the sheer volume of editorial shoots for British Vouge that she worked on for most of the early 1940s. Despite paper rationing, British Vogue was kept in print throughout the war under the influential editorship of Audrey Withers and was seen as an opportunity by the British government to encourage women to join the war effort. Its pages were transformed into a guide for “soldiers without guns”, whilst continuing to advise on fashion and how to make the most of what was available in spite of clothes rationing, which was introduced in 1941. Miller’s fashion output was so prolific that in 1941, Audrey Withers described just how important Miller was to the publication: ‘she has borne the whole weight of our studio production through the most difficult period in Brogue’s [British Vogue’s] history’.

Photographs on display will provide insight into the prevailing fashions of the day, from factory wear to evening gowns and suits by famed designers including Norman Hartnell, Digby Morton, Hardy Amies and Bianca Mosca, one of the few female fashion designers from the period. Despite the difficult wartime conditons, Lee used her surrealist eye and technical skills in the art direction of her photographs and often took models out of the studio to museums, a taxidermy shop and onto the streets. Most notably she photographed broadcaster Elizabeth Cowell, one of the first female television announcers, against a backdrop of bombed out houses in London.

In 1940 during the early days of the war Lee wrote to her parents, describing the immense difficulty of shooting during the Blitz and the team’s perseverance: ‘the studio never missed a day – bombed once and fired twice – working with the neighbouring buildings still smouldering – the horrid smell of wet charred wood – the stink of cordite – the fire hoses still up the stair cases and we had to wade bare foot to get in – little restaurants producing food on a primus stove – carrying water to flush toilets and whoever could, taking the prints and negs home to do at night if they had the sacred combination of gas, electricity and water.’

The exhibition will be accompanied by a lavishly illustrated coffee table book, featuring over 100 photographs, published by Lee Miller Archives, with contributions from Robin Muir, Amber Butchart and introduction by Lee Miller’s granddaughter Ami Bouhassane.  

The exhibition and book have been made possible with support from the DCMS Culture Recovery Fund awarded by the Arts Council England. Farleys House & Gallery and the Lee Miller Archives were saved from imminent closure due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic following a successful crowdfunder in the summer of 2020. The crowdfunder enabled vital conservation work to take place on the house and helped to support future programming. Without the funding and continued encouragement and support of everyone through these difficult times Farleys and the Lee Miller Archives would not be able to continue.

Lee Miller: Fashion in Wartime Britain
Publication date 21 March 2021
Available for pre-order from February through www.leemiller.co.uk and all good bookshops.
ISBN: 9780 9532389 8 9

Gallery opening hours & ticketing information
The exhibition will be on view from Saturday 21 March – July 2021.
Farleys House & Garden is open every Thursday and Sunday, 10am to 4.30pm
Tickets will be available from early March 2021. Pre-booking advised through www.farleyshouseandgallery.co.uk.

Image: Image credit: Lee Miller, Corsetry, Solarised Photographs, Vogue Studio London England 1942 © Lee Miller Archives, England 2020. All rights reserved.

Out of the Archive is a new online talks series exploring how photography archives can both document the past and inspire the present. It is presented by Four Corners and will bring in organisations and artists working with archives to share untold stories, initiate new work and catalyse community projects. It runs on Thursdays throughout February

The next two talks are: 

Revisiting Radical Community Photography | 11 February | 6.30 - 8.00pm 
A closer look at the radical, youth-led photography projects recording South and East London in the 1970s and 1980s by photographer Paul Carter, who will be discussing the influential Blackfriars Photography Project, as well as the more recent SE1 Stories initiative, which is documenting and celebrating the history of community action around Waterloo and North Southwark.

Also joining are Andrew Woodyatt and Tamara Stoll from the Rio Cinema Archive. They will be sharing their discovery, documentation and publication of a vast collection of images produced by the Rio Cinema’s Tape/Slide Newsreel Group, which gave a voice to unemployed young people in Hackney, and now offers a fascinating insight into the era. Register here 

Photographers in the Archives | 18 February | 

Anita Corbin and Ingrid Pollard  will talk about their work reactivating photography archives to create new projects. Further details coming soon. 

See more and details of past talks here: https://www.fourcornersfilm.co.uk/whats-on/out-of-the-archives

Photographic artist Melanie King, who uses cyanotype and alternative processes in her work has collaborated with Professor Lucie Green to produce Solar Orbiter, a series of ITV screen idents. They will be shown during February 2021.   

Melanie King, who is based  in Kent works with alternative photography processes, with a specific focus on astronomy. Lucie Green, is a professor of physics at UCL.

The piece of art is based on the European Space Agency’s Solar Orbiter mission which launched in February 2020 and is the latest spacecraft sent to study the sun. The spacecraft has to endure searing heat, but in doing so it has taken images of the sun closer than any other spacecraft. Data gathered by the spacecraft’s suite of telescopes provides views of the sun in ultraviolet light and X-rays, and will help shed light on why the sun produces huge explosions and eruptions in its atmosphere.  

Melanie says: "Myself and Lucie produced a cyanotype using ultraviolet light, a form of light which is produced by the Sun. As Lucie has been working on the European Space Agency's Solar Orbiter mission, we were inspired to use shapes found within the Solar Orbiter craft to form the logo. Part of the ident was filmed at Airbus Stevenage."

See: https://www.itv.com/itvcreates/articles/melanie-king-and-prof-lucie-green

and https://www.melaniek.co.uk/itv-solar-orbiter-cyanotype#0

Images: ITV and Melanie King / Twitter / https://twitter.com/MelanieKKing/status/1356191228472274944/photo/3

William Robert Hogg worked as a photographer for Jabez Hughes of Ryde. He was frequently sent to photograph Queen Victoria at Osborne House. Later in life he ran a tobacconist shop and sub post office in the town but still recorded the area on his plate camera. The Isle of Wight Heritage service holds a collection of over 200 glass negatives of Hogg’s work of which 81 can be seen here. The photographs date from the 1910-1920s.

The Isle of Wight Heritage service also holds a collection of photographs by Sandown photographer James Dore 1854-1925.

See: https://www.iow.gov.uk/Residents/Libraries-Cultural-and-Heritage/Heritage-Service/Cowes-Maritime-Museum/The-photographs-of-William-Robert-Hogg-1844-1928

The impact of COVID-19 on DCMS funded museums and galleries in 2020 has been laid bare by new research showing an average 74 per cent decline in visitor numbers for the period January-September 2020 against the previous year.

For those institutions closely involved with photography, the V&A Museum, London, saw a drop from 3,084,702 for the first nine months in 2019 to 796,708 in 2020. The National Science and Media Museum, Bradford, saw a drop from 340,944 to 102,155. 

For the period after September the drop in numbers was closer to 90 per cent as London locked down and other regions were placed in tiers that did not allow museums and galleries to re-open to the public, or severely limited visitor admissions.

With a UK countries in a lockdown that will remain in place until at least 8 March 2021 and most regions then likely to be placed in tiers that would prevent public re-opening the first half of 2021 looks to be set for an equally first six months.

The initial data research was commissioned by https://www.diys.com/. Download an infographic here;  diys-uk-museum-and-gallery-visitor-numbers-infographic.jpg. 

Visitor numbers for the later period and other metrics are available on the DCMS website: https://www.gov.uk/government/statistics/daily-visitors-to-dcms-sponsored-museums-and-galleries

Fairly recently I acquired a large and interesting album that appears to have been compiled by a British family managing a tea plantation in India, possibly around Tamil Nadu and Kerala. The photographs are a mixture of personal photographs, most likely taken by an enthusiastic amateur,and (presumably purchased) professional photographs by people such as Baker and the Nicholas brothers. The only photographs I can date for sure are from the early 1870s (Madras cyclone images from 1872) but as these are towards the end of the album some of the other images may well be from the 1860s.

This is a very long shot but I'd appreciate input anyone can give as regards:

1. The identity of the family

Here is a large format group shot of the family and their friends taking tea. I believe the compiler of the album is the lady third from left.

If anyone recognises anyone in the photograph or has tips on how to go about identying the subjects I'd be very grateful for your input 

2. The identity of the photographer responsible for this small format posed image.

There are several photographs similar to this in the album. I have found images on the interent that look vaguely similar but they don't seem to be from the same photographer.

There are many other photographs in the album I could ask about but this is a start.

Photo London 2021 has been rescheduled from May to 9–12 September 2021, with a preview day on 8 September. The fair will be held at Somerset House as programmed.

Since the start of the year, the Founders of Photo London have engaged in detailed discussions with expert advisers from various fields, including science and government, regarding the timing of the Fair. Their unanimous view is that it would be best advised to wait a little longer for the global vaccination programmes to take effect, allowing for the easing of lockdowns and travel restrictions and for as strong an economic rebound as possible.

The new early September dates give the best chance to deliver the strongest possible edition of Photo London in a safe environment. The second edition of Photo London Digital will run alongside the Fair providing an opportunity for exhibitors unable to come to London to gain exposure to Photo London’s outstanding network of collectors.

Since the UK locked down in March last year, Photo London has responded to the global crisis by developing online platforms to connect, learn and talk about photography. In the months leading up to the fair in September, it will continue to do so by presenting a year-round programme of events and new initiatives involving experts from across the industry. 

See: https://photolondon.org/

This talk will examine the history of Scottish expatriates in nineteenth-century Japan and their contribution to the photography networks.

When Edward Hornel and George Henry travelled to Japan in 1893, they encountered a community of photographers that supported their own artistic pursuits in the country. Their visit was particularly timely, but Scottish photographers, artists, and merchants had long been involved in the growth and popularity of photography in Japan. This talk will examine the history of Scottish expatriates in nineteenth-century Japan and their contribution to the photography networks and communities in their adopted country.

The Fox Talbot Museum will no longer have a specialist curator for the first time since the museum's opening in 1975 as the National Trust recruits for a more general Property Curator for its Lacock portfolio. This includes the Fox Talbot Museum and Abbey and three other Trust properties close to Lacock. The role replaces Roger Watson who retired as Fox Talbot Museum curator last autumn. 

For Lacock the role description notes: The Property Curator has overall responsibly for curation and conservation care of the Lacock and North Wiltshire Portfolio which also includes Great Chalfield Manor, The Courts Garden and Westwood Manor. The Abbey itself has a team working with the Property Curator, you will be responsible for setting standards / objectives / managing budgets etc. Practically how the Property Curator deploys their team to meet these responsibilities is largely up to you, so you would delegate as you need to and play to strengths of the whole team including yourself. 

The wider role description says: Our remarkable collections are held across hundreds of properties and places in England, Wales and Northern Ireland. They include outstanding internationally important works of art and material culture such as paintings, sculptures, textiles, dress, decorative arts, furniture, books and libraries, as well as highly significant industrial, agricultural photographic, archaeological and archival collections.  We also care for places and landscapes that are carry with complex and fascinating histories.  We now have a number of exciting opportunities for Property Curators at some of our most internationally significant historic properties within England.

Our houses and collections are a fundamental part of our work and these new roles take a critical part in helping to care for, research and interpret these places and their collections.

To support some of our most internationally significant collections we need Property Curators to deliver an innovative approach to these high profile cultural destinations. While the properties are all unique, the role is to deliver a consistent approach of high standards of collections management and care across our most internationally significant historic properties.

See more here: 

General role (plus link to detail for Lacock): https://careers.nationaltrust.org.uk/OA_HTML/a/#/vacancy-detail/97214

Lacock specific role: https://careers.nationaltrust.org.uk/OA_HTML/fndgfm.jsp?mode=download_blob&fid=1929423&accessid=91s-6NHaPCMuuF1ZhoKLng..&gfa=N

The Royal Geographical Society with IBG, is partnering with Wiley Digital Archives (WDA) on an extensive digitisation programme of substantial parts of the pre-1945 Collections.

As part of its mission to undertake research on the Collections and to make the Collections more accessible to a wider audience, in collaboration with Wiley, it has recently awarded 11 Research Fellowships for 2020-21 which provide researchers with access to the WDA platform, who would not otherwise have access to it.

The projects cover a wide range of topic areas, advancing knowledge on a number of key themes, including providing new insights into the science and technology of exploration, making use of innovative new digital methodologies, highlighting hidden and forgotten histories, exploring under-researched parts of the Collections, and more.

The projects supported are as follows.

• Alicia Colson (Independent): From ‘Banishment’ to ‘Cool’: a chairborne exploration of a ‘forgotten archipelago’ - Santa Catarina, Brazil

• Sherezade Garcia Rangel (Falmouth University, UK): Unbound beauty: Venezuela according to the Wiley Digital Archive

• Emily Hayes (Oxford Brookes University, UK): (Un)commonplace knowledge: geographical relativity in the fin de siècle

• Sandra Hayward (Independent): Hidden treasures: low-latitude historical aurorae and their relevance to future space flight

• Rick Mitcham (Kindai University, Japan): Corresponding geographies: a critical exploration of Walter Weston’s contact with the Royal Geographical Society, 1892-1924

• Fred Morton (University of Botswana, Botswana): Cattle people: the Tswana and Metsemegologolo: multimodal landscape of African urbanisms

• Joanne Norcup (University of Warwick, UK): The life and legacies of the 1998 British Council / Royal Geographical Society exhibition (1998) Photos and Phantasms: Sir Harry Hamilton Johnston’s photographs of the Caribbean (1908 – 1909)

• Catherine Oliver (University of Cambridge, UK): Animals in the Royal Geographical Society’s archives

• Karen Rann (Queen’s University Belfast, UK): Moving mountains: early uses of isobaths and contour lines on maps

• Bradley Rink (University of the Western Cape, South Africa): Airmindedness redux: growing tourism and worldliness through aeromobility in Africa

• Shaun Seah (Columbia University, USA): Watch on Deck – the Orientalist gaze of tourists, naval officers and colonial officialdom along the Straits of Singapore (1850-1950)

More information about each of the projects, new materials that are found, and how the digital archive is enabling new kinds of scholarship with be shared over the year.

The programme is expected to run again for 2021-22.

See: https://www.rgs.org/geography/news/support-for-research-on-the-society%E2%80%99s-collections/

Delve into the lives, loves and labour of the world’s most prominent portrait galleries in this international conversation series. From curatorial decisions to art handling, exhibition design to major events, favourite portraits to the creative copy they command – this is your chance to go behind the scenes for insights into global gallery goings-on.

The second event in this 15 Minutes of Frame international series will focus on the power that photographic portraiture has to change and enhance collections. It features Magdalene Keaney, Senior Curator, Photographs at the National Portrait Gallery, London and Louise Pearson Curator (Photography) at the National Galleries of Scotland, in conversation with our very own Penny Grist, Curator Exhibitions from the Australian NPG.

Free event
Thursday, 28 January 2021 at 0900-0945
Booking link: https://www.portrait.gov.au/calendar/15-minutes-npg-lnd-sct-aus

Birkbeck's History and Theory of Photography Research Centre has announced its spring term talks which will be online. Established in 2012, the Centre is an interdisciplinary group based in Birkbeck's School of Arts, led by Dr Patrizia Di Bello and Professor Steve Edwards. We aim to facilitate, exchange and showcase new and existing research on photography's history and theory, both at Birkbeck and in the wider photographic and academic community.  

26 February 2021

Taous R Dahmani

‘A typology for ‘Direct Action Photography’: 5 Acts merging political activism’s lexicon and photography’s vocabulary (1958-1989 / UK)’  

12 March 2021 

Justin Carville

‘Racializing Insurgency: Photography, Colonial Governmentality and Ireland’

16 March 2021

Sean Willcock 

‘Negative Histories of Colonial Photography: Encounters with Photographic Processes in the Imperial Field’

Zoom links will be provided at the start of the relevant week: Please contact Alexandra Symons Sutcliffe with any queries: asymon03@mail.bbk.ac.uk Sign up for regular mailings here: http://www.bbk.ac.uk/research/centres/history-and-theory-of-photography/

Image: 

Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. "Thomas McCarthy ; James Smith, Private in the American Service ; Joseph O'Carroll, Captain in the American Service ; Joseph Cromien, Spirit-retailer, Kept a meeting house for the Fenians in Dublin." New York Public Library Digital Collections. Accessed January 11, 2021. https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47dc-96a2-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99

The project offers an exciting opportunity for a student to study British South Asian heritage in relation to factory work, leisure and domesticity and their photographic representations, using the Black Country Visual Arts’ Apna and Punjabi Workers photographic archives.

The BCVA digital archive is comprised of 2000 photographs, featuring street life, fashion and domestic material culture (1960s–Present), 36 photographs of Punjabi factory workers (1992) and is ever-expanding. Using archival research, oral history interviews and object analysis as key methods, the project will help shape understandings of the ways in which the material environments of the home and factory and preservation of tangible and intangible heritage, enabled the South Asian community in the Black Country to inhabit the diasporic space.

This fully-funded three-year PhD, funded through the Techne DTP will be jointly hosted by BCVA and the Centre for Design History at the University of Brighton.

Further details and how to apply can be found at: https://www.brighton.ac.uk/research-and-enterprise/postgraduate-research-degrees/funding-opportunities-and-studentships/2021-ahrc-techne-home-and-factory.aspx

If you have any questions about the project, please contact the lead supervisor, Dr Megha Rajguru (M.Rajguru@brighton.ac.uk)

The deadline for applications is: Monday 15 February 2021 (16.00)

Rachel Nordstrom from the University of St Andrews, Scotland, Victor Flores, from Universidade Lusófona de Humanidades e Tecnologias, Lisbon, Portugal, Denis Pellerin and Rebecca Sharpe, from the London Stereoscopic Archive, England, have once again joined forces to organise this free online Zoom event which is meant to be a celebration of Stereoscopic 3D. They have invited photo historians, researchers, artists, curators, collectors and innovators to talk about their passion to explore various aspects of stereoscopy.

The full programme and speakers will be announced shortly. To see it and to register go to: https://stereoscopy.blog/celebration-of-stereoscopic-3d/

Here's a piece I wrote on the Pam blog back in October. It touches on the Cult of Pan, Wicca and the English Gymnosophical Society.

A Very British Arcadia

Due, in part, to the censorship laws of the 1950s, photographers often sought to cloak their work in respectability, using Classical allusions in an attempt to validate their “art studies”. There is a certain naive charm to captioning a photograph of a lady in a state of undress Nymph in a Sunlit Glade or Nymph Surprised, and we shouldn’t underestimate the hunger for art from the boys behind the bike shed or the homesick squaddie in barracks. Be that as it may, there’s also something much deeper at play…

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