Photographs by David Hurn
Creative Camera, April, 1971, page 123
For many years there has been an almost constant battle going on in this country between the art establishment and photographers. The fight, quite simply, has been to see photography given coverage and patronage equally with the other arts.
At last things seem to be looking up.
Major developments have included three independent galleries (including our own at 19 Doughty Street), an increase in the amount of interest shown by some of the public galleries in exhibitions of photographs (witness the Bill Brandt show last year at the Hayward Gallery - a Museum of Modern Art import that aroused considerable interest) and the relatively recent formation of an Arts Council committee on photography. The most recent breakthrough has also come from the Arts Council, in the shape of a series of exhibitions that they have both sponsored and organised.
Throughout the summer a section of the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens is being given over to one-man shows by photographers. The first of these exhibits which began on 8 April and will run until 2 May is of photographs by David Hurn, the Magnum photojournalist. These pictures are his own selection from the show.
‘There are many forms of photography. I consider myself simply a recorder of that which I find of interest around me. I personally have no desire to create or stage direct ideas.
‘I hope my pictures will interest others and suggest things they might not have seen had they been in the same circumstances - to help show we are all individuals seeing in our own ways - and to provide some emotional response be it even dislike.'
At last things seem to be looking up.
Major developments have included three independent galleries (including our own at 19 Doughty Street), an increase in the amount of interest shown by some of the public galleries in exhibitions of photographs (witness the Bill Brandt show last year at the Hayward Gallery - a Museum of Modern Art import that aroused considerable interest) and the relatively recent formation of an Arts Council committee on photography. The most recent breakthrough has also come from the Arts Council, in the shape of a series of exhibitions that they have both sponsored and organised.
Throughout the summer a section of the Serpentine Gallery in Kensington Gardens is being given over to one-man shows by photographers. The first of these exhibits which began on 8 April and will run until 2 May is of photographs by David Hurn, the Magnum photojournalist. These pictures are his own selection from the show.
‘There are many forms of photography. I consider myself simply a recorder of that which I find of interest around me. I personally have no desire to create or stage direct ideas.
My enjoyment seems to come from trying to capture some form and order and significance out of the muddle around us.
‘I hope my pictures will interest others and suggest things they might not have seen had they been in the same circumstances - to help show we are all individuals seeing in our own ways - and to provide some emotional response be it even dislike.'
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