Visual Culture
The work of a North East ‘Primitive Painter’. Since retirement, Herbert Cooper has set out to document events and memories of his life in a Durham pit village. A vivid record of working class life. 1960s/70s.
Visual Culture Slides
In the early days of the Amber Collective, members took on paid work for colleges and broadcasters, and generated businesses, sharing the income amongst the group to allow them take their artistic practice forward. In 1972 Amber launched the Lambton Visual Aids slide library, producing sets of transparencies for Higher Education.
This imagery, created to illustrate potential lectures on a host of subjects, included copies of historical works and original slides alongside new images which included projects on: urban architecture, fairground arts, Blackpool Illuminations, shop fronts and other topics.
In addition to the images from the the Amber Film & Photography Collective, other photographers were commissioned to develop sets of slides in international topics under Lambton Visual Aids.
Visual Culture
A selection of humorous, often ingenious, pictorial initials (always the first letter of a sentence) from PUNIANA, or THOUGHTS WISE & OTHER-WISE by the Hon. Hugh Rowley, Hotten, 1867. The designs are all by Rowley himself…. MORE PUNIANA and other works of a similar type.
Visual Culture
A selection of chromolithic plates from MASTERPIECES OF INDUSTRIAL ART & SCULPTURE AT THE INTERNATIONAL EXHIBITION, 1862, Day & Son. A cross-section of furniture, textiles, ceramics, glassware, etc.
Visual Culture
A selection of publicity illustrations, featuring tobacco, cigar and cigarette packs and tins, presentation boxes, etc, from I TABACCHI ITALIAN, the 1934 official publicity catalogue of the Italian State Tobacco co.
Visual Culture
Antique and modern batik sarongs and cloths of traditional design. Photographed 1974-76. 24 colour slides
Visual Culture
A selection of architectural studies and details of the Hindu and Buddhist temples, Borobudur, Chandi Mendut, Prambanan, Chandi Sewu, Chandi Cheto, Chandi Sukuh and Chandi Penataran. Photographed in 1974-1976.
Visual Culture
A selection of photographs of children’s marching troupes, a particularly North East phenomenon, known as ‘Juvenile Jazz Bands’. Each troupe, dressed in distinctive pseudo-military uniforms complete with peaked caps, miniature busbies, etc, competes in a precision-marching competition, accompanying themselves on drums and kazoos (the reference to ‘jazz’ is rather tenuous). The present selection was photographed at the Northumberland Miners’ Gala, Bedlington, in 1974.
Visual Culture
A selection of illustrations from Victorian children's books; POLL PARROT PICTURE BOOK, Routledge, London c 1870; THE HENNY-PENNY PICTURE BOOK, Routledge, c 1870; and from MY MOTHER'S PICTURE BOOK, Routledge, c 1870. Superb examples of the famous Kronheim colour printing.
Visual Culture
A selection of typical illustrations from France’s best known ‘naughty’ magazine, c 1916-17. Artists include Herouard, Leonnec, Barbier, Fontan, etc.
