Throughout the 1950s and 1960s, Herbert Shergold operated a commercial photography studio in Bristol, using glass plate negatives – an unusually antiquated technique popular in the 1910s – to create highly stylised portraits of actors as well as of his local community. In Shergold’s studio, Bristol’s working class residents were styled to appear as Hollywood film stars. Yet little is known of Shergold. After his death, his images largely disappeared from view, falling into the possession of private collectors in the U.S., The Netherlands, as well as Bristol.
Bristol Photo Festival
Herbert Shergold : Now Keep Quite Still
Until November 17, 2024
The Launderette
145 Cheltenham Rd,
Cotham, Bristol BS6 5RR
https://bristolphotofestival.org/at-the-edge-of-the-everyday-world-by-rinko-kawauchi-3
