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  • Loans to Lives Less Ordinary

    Loans to Lives Less Ordinary

    Loans to new exhibition at Two Temple Place January 17, 2025
    The Hyman Collection is lending works by Bert Hardy, Ken Grant, and Jo Spence PRESS RELEASE Lives Less Ordinary: Working-Class Britain Re-seen Our 2025 exhibition...
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  • Loans to The 80s: Photographing Britain at TATE BRITAIN

    Loans to The 80s: Photographing Britain at TATE BRITAIN

    November 19, 2024
    The Hyman Collection is delighted to be major lenders to the exhibition The 80s : Photographing Britain ( 21 November 2024 - 5 May 2025)...
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  • Loans to two new exhibitions in Belfast

    Loans to two new exhibitions in Belfast

    Jo Spence and Arpita Shah exhibitions at Belfast Exposed September 30, 2024
    We are delighted to be loaning works from the Hyman Collection to the two upcoming exhibition's at Belfast Exposed: Jo Spence. A Woman's Place? and...
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  • James Hyman curates Writing her own Script. Women Photographers from the Hyman Collection

    James Hyman curates Writing her own Script. Women Photographers from the Hyman Collection

    April 26, 2023
    As part of the 2023 Public Programme at Photo London, we are pleased to present Writing her own Script. Women Photographers from the Hyman Collection...
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  • JO SPENCE: THE ARCHIVE WHICH IS NOT ONE

    JO SPENCE: THE ARCHIVE WHICH IS NOT ONE

    A ROUNDTABLE DISCUSSION WITH CHARLENE HEATH, JAMES HYMAN AND PATRIZIA DI BELLO April 13, 2023
    Organised by Birkbeck College. A roundtable discussion with Dr. Charlene Heath, Dr. James Hyman and Professor Patrizia Di Bello, discussing multiplicity, dispersal and repetitions of...
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  • James Hyman curates The English at Home. Twentieth Century Photographs from the Hyman Collection

    James Hyman curates The English at Home. Twentieth Century Photographs from the Hyman Collection

    January 9, 2023
    The English at Home: 20th Century Photographs from the Hyman Collection is one of the opening exhibitions of the new Centre for British Photography. Curated...
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  • CURATORIAL COLLABORATION BETWEEN JO SPENCE MEMORIAL LIBRARY ARCHIVE (BIRKBECK COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON) AND THE HYMAN COLLECTION

    CURATORIAL COLLABORATION BETWEEN JO SPENCE MEMORIAL LIBRARY ARCHIVE (BIRKBECK COLLEGE, UNIVERSITY OF LONDON) AND THE HYMAN COLLECTION

    January 4, 2023
    The exhibition is curated by Patrizia Di Bello of the Jo Spence Memorial Library Archive at Birkbeck College, University of London and James Hyman, Hyman...
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  • James Hyman curates Picture Post Exhibition

    James Hyman curates Picture Post Exhibition

    March 15, 2022
    Telling Tales. Picture Post and its Legacy . Curated by James Hyman, the exhibition presents some of the key photographers of Picture Post magazine as...
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  • Loans to Actually, the Dead are not Dead

    Loans to Actually, the Dead are not Dead

    Württembergischer Kunstverein, Stuttgart October 22, 2021
    The Hyman Collection is pleased to be a major lender to the group exhibition Actually, the Dead are not Dead. Techniques of Becoming at Württembergischer...
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  • Loans to A Different Mirror. Photographs from the Hyman Collection

    Loans to A Different Mirror. Photographs from the Hyman Collection

    Photo Oxford Festival October 4, 2021
    A Different Mirror presents a dialogue between two generations of socially engaged photographers from the pioneering work of Jo Spence and Alexis Hunter, grounded in...
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  • Watch Claire Hyman's video walk-through of Jo Spence. From Fairytales to Photo Therapy. Photographs from the Hyman Collection

    Watch Claire Hyman's video walk-through of Jo Spence. From Fairytales to Photo Therapy. Photographs from the Hyman Collection

    April 15, 2021
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  • Announcing a significant new publication on Jo Spence

    Announcing a significant new publication on Jo Spence

    October 29, 2020
    RRB Photobooks and The Hyman Collection are pleased to present Fairy Tales and Photography, or, Another look at Cinderella, a facsimile of the unpublished thesis...
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  • Exhibition for the Arnolfini Bristol: Jo Spence. From Fairytales to Phototherapy. Photographs from the Hyman Collection.

    Exhibition for the Arnolfini Bristol: Jo Spence. From Fairytales to Phototherapy. Photographs from the Hyman Collection.

    October 15, 2020
    Arnolfini present a major retrospective of the work of photographer Jo Spence (1934 - 1992), drawn from The Hyman Collection, one of the most comprehensive...
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  • Coming soon to the Arnolfini Bristol: A Picture of Health? Women Photographers from the Hyman Collection

    Coming soon to the Arnolfini Bristol: A Picture of Health? Women Photographers from the Hyman Collection

    October 8, 2020
    A Picture of Health is a group exhibition of contemporary women photographers from The Hyman Collection who have responded to subjects of health and wellbeing....
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  • THE HYMAN COLLECTION DONATES 100 WORKS TO THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY, OXFORD

    THE HYMAN COLLECTION DONATES 100 WORKS TO THE BODLEIAN LIBRARY, OXFORD

    January 1, 2020
    The Bodleian Library Expands its Collection of Modern and Contemporary British Photographs with a gift from the London-based collectors Claire and James Hyman. OXFORD, UK....
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  • Jo Spence's Unpublished Thesis and unique set of exhibition laminates

    Jo Spence's Unpublished Thesis and unique set of exhibition laminates

    November 15, 2019
    The Hyman Collection is delighted to have acquired a series of rare laminated exhibition panels by Jo Spence as well as the original copy of...
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  • Modern Nature. Photographs from the Hyman Collection

    Modern Nature. Photographs from the Hyman Collection

    Hepworth Wakefield July 13, 2018
    We are delighted that the Hepworth Wakefield (Museum of the Year 2017) have curated an exhibition from photographs in the Hyman Collection. HEPWORTH WAKEFIELD PRESS...
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  • Loans to Creating the Countryside: 1600-2017

    Loans to Creating the Countryside: 1600-2017

    Compton Verney Art Gallery and Park March 18, 2018
    The Hyman Collection is delighted to be lending around twenty works from the collection, including photographs by Anna Fox, Paul Hill, Paul Reas, Jo Spence...
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  • THE HYMAN COLLECTION DONATES 125 WORKS TO THE YALE CENTEr FOR BRITISH ART

    THE HYMAN COLLECTION DONATES 125 WORKS TO THE YALE CENTEr FOR BRITISH ART

    January 16, 2018
    YALE CENTER FOR BRITISH ART PRESS RELEASE PDF The Yale Center for British Art Significantly Expands Its Collection of Modern and Contemporary British Photographs with...
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  • Loans to Máquinas de Vivir. Flamenco y arquitectura en la ocupación y desocupación de espacios.

    Loans to Máquinas de Vivir. Flamenco y arquitectura en la ocupación y desocupación de espacios.

    October 19, 2017
    We are delighted to be lending a large group of works by Jo Spence from her gypsies and travellers series to the substantial international exhibition...
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  • Loans - Here We Are. An exhibition to celebrate the Burberry September collection, Old Sessions House, Clerkenwell Green

    Loans - Here We Are. An exhibition to celebrate the Burberry September collection, Old Sessions House, Clerkenwell Green

    September 18, 2017
    The Hyman Collection is a major lender to the exhibition Here We Are. The exhibition celebrates the very best of British photography on the occasion...
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  • Loans to A Green and Pleasant Land: Landscape and the imagination, 1970-now

    Loans to A Green and Pleasant Land: Landscape and the imagination, 1970-now

    Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne August 30, 2017
    The Hyman Collection is delighted to be the largest lender, after the Arts Council of England, to the exhibition A Green and Pleasant Land: Landscape...
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  • Jo Spence. Remodelling Photo History

    Jo Spence. Remodelling Photo History

    September 23, 2014
    Remodelling Photohistory We are pleased to have acquired one of only three complete vintage sets of Jo Spence's celebrated series Remodelling Photohistory. This seminal body...
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  • The Jo Spence Gypsies and Travellers Archive

    The Jo Spence Gypsies and Travellers Archive

    September 1, 2014
    Claire and James Hyman are delighted to announce one of our most significant acquisitions, Jo Spence's complete gypsies and travellers work. Details are here: JO...
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