A surrogate touch: Dick's Book of Photos

Simon John Pierse

A surrogate touch: Dick's Book of Photos

School of Art

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Dick’s Book of Photos is revealed as a document of British social history in the mid to late 1930s – a time of heatwave summers, the growing tension of a war with Germany that seemed inevitable, naturism, sunbathing, quintessential British landscape transmuted through the lens of the new technology of the Leica, the influence of European surrealist art, and popular visual culture in the form of cinema and magazines.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	The Photograph and the Collection
Subtitle of host publication	Create \| Preserve \| Analyze \| Present
Editors	Graeme Farnell
Place of Publication	Edinburgh and Boston
Publisher	MuseumsEtc
Pages	371-403
Number of pages	660
ISBN (Print)	9781907697852
Publication status	Published - Jul 2013
Event	Keith Vaughan: Figure and Ground: Drawings Prints and Photographs 1935-62 - National Museum Wales, Cardiff, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland Duration: 13 Jul 2013 → 24 Nov 2013

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Exhibition	Keith Vaughan: Figure and Ground: Drawings Prints and Photographs 1935-62
Country/Territory	United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
City	Cardiff
Period	13 Jul 2013 → 24 Nov 2013

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Pierse, SJ 2013, A surrogate touch: Dick's Book of Photos. in G Farnell (ed.), The Photograph and the Collection: Create | Preserve | Analyze | Present . MuseumsEtc, Edinburgh and Boston, pp. 371-403, Keith Vaughan: Figure and Ground: Drawings Prints and Photographs 1935-62 , Cardiff, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, 13 Jul 2013. <http://museumsetc.com/products/photo_collection>

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