L’Oeil de la Photographie is pleased to link up with a new educational resource britishphotography.org to provide an A to Z of British Photography based on photographs in the Hyman Collection. Every two weeks we will present the next letter of the alphabet.
Just launched britishphotography.org gives online access to Claire and James Hyman’s personal collection of British photography as well as providing essays on the subject and links to other websites.
Established over a period of nearly twenty years, the Hyman Collection consists of over 3,000 artworks with an emphasis on photography from nineteenth century salt prints to contemporary works. The Hyman Collection seeks to support British Photography through education and acquisitions and to use britishphotography.org as a forum for promoting British Photography.
Today D is for Drink
The Hyman Collection includes many works which present the pub as the heart of social life. The image of people, usually men, with a pint glass in hand runs through British photography from the Bert Hardy’s photographs of pubs of Elephant and Castle to Colin Jones on the streets of Belfast. Whereas in Paris, Brassai was drawn to women drinking wine at bar tables, in Britain the drink of choice is commonly beer and pubs are shown as predominantly a male arena.
INFORMATION
The Hyman Collection
16 Savile Row
London W1S 3PL
United Kingdom
http://britishphotography.org
