Bill Smale with prize winning onions

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Artist/Maker	Ravilious, James (photographer)
Place of origin	Devon (photographed)

Black and white photograph of a man in a jacket, tie and cardigan, stood next to a table of carefully arranged onions at a flower and horticultural show.

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Categories	Photographs Rural Life Farming The Royal Photographic Society
Object type	Photograph
Title	Bill Smale with prize winning onions (assigned by artist)
Materials and techniques	Gelatin silver print Photographic Paper Gelatin Silver Process Photography
Brief description	Photograph by James Ravilious. 'Bill Smale with prize winning onions'. St. Giles in the Wood, North Devon, October 1974, gelatin silver print
Physical description	Black and white photograph of a man in a jacket, tie and cardigan, stood next to a table of carefully arranged onions at a flower and horticultural show.
Dimensions	Height: 405mm Width: 505mm
Content description	Beaford Arts, a village arts centre in Devon, commissioned Ravilious to contribute images to the Beaford Archive, intended as a photographic record of a life in the largely unspoilt but vulnerable country area within a 10-mile radius of Beaford. During the course of seventeen years Ravilious took over 80,000 black and white images of many aspects of life in the area between the Taw and Torridge rivers of North Devon, including landscapes, studies of farmers at work, special occasions and ancient traditions in the local towns and villages.
Marks and inscriptions	Bill Smale with prize winning onions. St. Giles in the Wood, N Devon Oct 1974. James Ravilious, Beaford Archive (The inscription is in the photographer's handwriting)
Credit line	The Royal Photographic Society Collection at the V&A, acquired with the generous assistance of the National Lottery Heritage Fund and Art Fund.
Object history	This photograph was acquired by the Royal Photographic Society in connection with the retrospective exhibition of James Ravilious's work held at the RPS in Bath in 1997, titled 'An English Eye'.
Place depicted	Devon
Bibliographic references	Ravilious, James and Robin. The Heart of the Country. London: Scolar Press, 1980. 128 p., ill. ISBN 0859676277. Hamilton, Peter. An English Eye: The Photographs of James Ravilious. Tiverton: Devon Books, 1998. 120 p, ill. ISBN 1855226286 Ravilious, James. A Corner of England. Tiverton ; Cambridge : Devon Books ; Lutterworth Press, 1995. 160 p., Ill. ISBN 0861148975 Beacham, James P. James Ravilious. [Obituary] The Guardian. 8 October 1999 Bennett, Alan, interviewed by Andrew Dickson. The History Boy: Alan Bennett introduces the poignant work of photographer James Ravilious, who documented the people and landscape around his north Devon home over a 20-year period, creating one of the country's most comprehensive archives. The Guardian. 15 November 2007 Beacham, Peter. Down The Deep Lanes. Tiverton : Devon Books, 2000. 142 p., ill. ISBN 1855227436
Other number	2003-5001/2/24115 - Science Museum Group accession number
Collection	Department of Photography
Accession number	RPS.1707-2017

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Record created	July 25, 2017
Record URL	https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O1405716/bill-smale-with-prize-winning-photograph-ravilious-james/

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