Farrier Wilf Barton shoeing a horse
Photograph
2005 (photographed)
2005 (photographed)
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This photograph was taken as part of Chris Steele-Perkins’ ‘Northern Exposures’ project, a commission organised by Side Gallery in Newcastle to document life in the North East of England. Steele-Perkins chose to focus on the curious intersection of rural life and post-industralism in former mining communities, looking in particular at man’s relationship with animals (pigeon clubs, feretting, lamping, greyhounds), and producing a body of work of exemplary black and white reportage . What he found was not the ‘rural England I grew up in [in Somerset], of cider, soft rolling hills and warmer weather’, but a way of life that still maintained links with ‘an older, mainly Anglo-Saxon England.’ As the photographer writes ‘I wanted to document these ways, and rituals of a life lived in the open, under the sky. This is what these photographs are: a partial record, and a personal exploration, which serves as both eulogy and elegy.’
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Materials and techniques | Digital fibre-based print |
Brief description | 'Farrier Wilf Barton shoeing a horse', black and white digital fibre-based print by Chris Steele-Perkins, from the portfolio 'Haswell Plough to Harajuku', 2005, printed 2007 |
Physical description | Black and white photograph of a man shoeing a horse - all that is visible through the cloud of steam/smoke is the hunched figure of a man in a cap. |
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Copy number | 1/3 |
Credit line | Purchased with the assistance of Eric Franck and the Cecil Beaton Royalties Fund |
Production | from the portfolio 'From Haswell Plough to Harajuku' |
Summary | This photograph was taken as part of Chris Steele-Perkins’ ‘Northern Exposures’ project, a commission organised by Side Gallery in Newcastle to document life in the North East of England. Steele-Perkins chose to focus on the curious intersection of rural life and post-industralism in former mining communities, looking in particular at man’s relationship with animals (pigeon clubs, feretting, lamping, greyhounds), and producing a body of work of exemplary black and white reportage . What he found was not the ‘rural England I grew up in [in Somerset], of cider, soft rolling hills and warmer weather’, but a way of life that still maintained links with ‘an older, mainly Anglo-Saxon England.’ As the photographer writes ‘I wanted to document these ways, and rituals of a life lived in the open, under the sky. This is what these photographs are: a partial record, and a personal exploration, which serves as both eulogy and elegy.’ |
Bibliographic reference | Northern Exposures, Northumbria University Press, 2007, pp. 95 |
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Accession number | E.457-2008 |
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Record created | August 9, 2008 |
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