Goudhurst
Photograph
1998 (made)
1998 (made)
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From 1997 to 2000 Toby Glanville, a young British photographer, produced a series of photographs showing people in their occupations and environments in Kent. The photographs from this series, published in the book Actual Life (2002) are a sensitive record across a range of people and subjects of life in this southern English county at the turn of the 20th century.
The psychologist and writer Adam Phillips has written that ‘one of the many striking things about Glanville’s portraits of people – apart, that is, from their unstartled stillness – is that his subjects are revealed but never exposed. His photographs seem to give people a sense of themselves, without exploiting their self-consciousness in front of the camera.’
The psychologist and writer Adam Phillips has written that ‘one of the many striking things about Glanville’s portraits of people – apart, that is, from their unstartled stillness – is that his subjects are revealed but never exposed. His photographs seem to give people a sense of themselves, without exploiting their self-consciousness in front of the camera.’
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Materials and techniques | C-type print |
Brief description | 'Goudhurst', [two girls sitting on a grass bank], 1998, c-type print by Toby Glanville |
Physical description | Colour photograph of two teenage girls sitting on a grassy slope at the edge of a graveyard. |
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Gallery label | Photographs by Toby Glanville
A print by the young British photographer Toby Glanville was among the few contemporary pieces selected by Bruce Bernard when he formed the collection for James Moores, currently showing in the Canon Photography Gallery. Photoworks, an independent visual arts organisation that promotes photography in the South East, recently commissioned Glanville to produce a body of images showing people in their occupations and environment in Kent. A selection of the remarkable work from that commission is shown here and accompanies a new publication Actual Life with a text by Adam Phillips who has written perceptively:
Glanville’s photographs seem to arrest the attention of his subjects, but without interrupting it. And it is this gift that makes his still-life photographs so eerily unobtrusive One of the many striking things about Glanville’s portraits of people apart, that is, from their unstartled stillness is that his subjects are revealed but never exposed. His photographs seem to give people a sense of themselves, without exploiting their self-consciousness in front of the camera ...They make us wonder, for a moment, what it would be like if embarrassment was dispensable; if we were undistracted by the consolations of shame.
Looking at these photographs, and being looked at by them their unharrassed openness, their unfussy clarity is like a reinventing of curiosity. A looking at that is not even a wanting to see through; a feeling for the sufficiency of what happens to be there.(December 2003) |
Credit line | Given by the photographer. Copyright Toby Glanville |
Production | This work was the result of two commissions to record people in their occupations and environment in Kent at the turn of the century. The commissions involved Photoworks, Kent County Council, Sevenoaks District Council and Tunbridge Wells Borough Council. |
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Summary | From 1997 to 2000 Toby Glanville, a young British photographer, produced a series of photographs showing people in their occupations and environments in Kent. The photographs from this series, published in the book Actual Life (2002) are a sensitive record across a range of people and subjects of life in this southern English county at the turn of the 20th century. The psychologist and writer Adam Phillips has written that ‘one of the many striking things about Glanville’s portraits of people – apart, that is, from their unstartled stillness – is that his subjects are revealed but never exposed. His photographs seem to give people a sense of themselves, without exploiting their self-consciousness in front of the camera.’ |
Bibliographic reference | Nothing in the World but Youth Margate: Turner Contemporary, 2011. ISBN: 9780955236334. |
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Accession number | E.336-2003 |
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Record created | February 24, 2004 |
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