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:
This archive consists of several hundred vintage prints, laminated exhibition panels, work prints and contact sheets made by Jo Spence, in collaboration with Terry Dennett. The photographs were acquired from the Jo Spence Memorial Archive though Richard Saltoun Gallery, London.
One of Spence's major projects in the 1970s was the result of the time that she spent with gypsies or travellers chronicling, especially, the lives of the women and children.
The acquisition includes large exhibition panels, over one hundred black and white photographs and more than four hundred 2.25 inch square contact prints. The contact prints are especially significant because Spence would bring these images with her on her visits to show the subjects.
Details can be found here:
