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Modern Nature
Photographs from the Hyman Collection at the Hepworth Wakefield 13 Jul 2018 - 22 Apr 2019This online exhibition is an expanded version of the show presented at the Hepworth Wakefield. It includes more recent acquisitions such as a series of works by John Davies in...Read more -
The Hyman Collection Donation
Yale Centre for British Art 16 Jan - 29 Mar 2018The Yale Center for British Art has expanded its collection of photographs through a generous gift of 125 works from the Londonbased collectors Claire and James Hyman. The gift includes...Read more -
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 -
Behind Closed Doors
Behind Closed Doors looks at the domestic interior in British Photography. It takes as its starting point three of the most important bodies of work by Bill Brandt: his first book,...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 holidings of British photography addresses masquerade, performance, costume, ritual, parade. There is a strong thread of fantasy and a variety of works that...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 -
Body Politics. From Welfare State to Personal Wellbeing
With the Collection covering many different phases in British photographic history, we are in a position to see how approaches to these subjects have changed over the past 80 years,...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 -
Picture Post: photo-journalism and the internationalising of British photography.
The Hyman Collection is delighted to have acquired an exceptionally rare complete, un-bound, run of the famous Picture Post magazine in impeccable condition. The collection also has many of the...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 -
Beside the Seaside
As an Island Nation the coast and beach are highly charged culural and national symbols. British photographers have responded to the subjeect in a variety of ways. Bill Brandt provides...Read more -
A Night in London
A Night in London explores the legacy of Bill Brandt. A focused selection looks at London lives and turns its back on the London of tourists - the neon lighting of...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