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Key Works - An Overview of British Photography.
Key Works presents photographs from the collection to chart the ways in which British photographers have responded to the world around them from the documentary strategies of Bill Brandt and...Read more -
Natural Selection
As well as exploring the rural life of the village and countryside, many British photographers have explored nature and addressed the natural environment. At times these depictions are mundane, and...Read more -
Land of Make Believe
A central aspect of the Hyman Collection's holdings of British photography addresses masquerade, performance, costume, ritual, parade. There is a strong thread of fantasy and a variety of works that...Read more -
Country Life
The Hyman Collection of British Photography includes many works which address the countryside including both landscapes and depictions of village life. These include depictions of the land as in Fay...Read more -
Capital City
The Hyman Collection of British Photography includes works from England, Nothern Ireland, Scotland and Wales that trace the lives of communities in rural and urban parts of Britain. In addition...Read more -
Sign of the Times. Word and Image in British Photography
Photographs in the Hyman Collection collection allow one to explore the use of word and image in British Photogtraphy and allow one to chart a number of stratagies by which...Read more -
Queen and Country
The Hyman Collection includes many works which present folk customs, constructions of national identity and that address forms of patriotism and nationalism. At their centre is the flag and references...Read more -
Cultures of Masculinity
Cultures of Masculinity takes its title from Tim Edward's social, cultural and theoretical study of masculinity published in 2006. It presents photographs from the 1930s to the present to explore...Read more -
Street Theatre
The Hyman Collection of British Photography has a number of works which take as their setting the streets of Britain. At times what is captured is an unguarded moment but...Read more -
Childhood
A central thread of the Hyman Collection is intimacy. Pictures of children are a leitmotif since the earliest days of photography and the collection includes a range of responses to...Read more