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> Tate invites online visitors to identify unknown locations in John Piper’s photographs of Britain
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> From Cornwall to the Isle of Mull, thousands of John Piper’s unpublished photographs of Britain are made available on Tate’s website today, many of them of unidentified locations. Piper originally began taking the photographs when he worked with John Betjeman on the Shell County Guides, capturing shots of ruined abbeys, churches, old shop fronts and country inns, often fascinated by remote or forgotten places. Tate is inviting online visitors to identify the unknown locations in the photographs, spotting local buildings, landscapes or even their homes, helping to complete this historic collection.
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> Nearly 6000 black and white negatives celebrating Britain’s countryside and architectural heritage will be published from the Tate Archive, spanning 50 years from the 1930s to the 1980s. The collection brings to light an important yet lesser-known area of Piper’s work. While many of the places depicted were documented by Piper when Tate acquired the collection in the 1980s, and research is ongoing, locations in nearly 1000 photographs remain to be identified.
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> The new items are published as part of the Archives and Access project, supported by the Heritage Lottery Fund with a grant of £2 million. The project draws on the world’s largest archive of British Art – the Tate Archive - and brings it together online with Tate’s art collection, giving unprecedented world-wide access to original materials.
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> This is the final stage of the digitisation process with the publication of collections relating to a further 25 artists throughout 2015 including Robert Adams, Conrad Atkinson, John Banting, Stuart Brisley, Edward Burra, L.S. Lowry, Eileen Mayo, F.E. McWilliam, Bernard Meninsky, Henry Moore, Ronald Moody, Cedric Morris, John Nash, Paul Neagu, John Piper, Donald Rodney, William Rothenstein, Kurt Schwitters, Stanley Spencer, Stanhope Alexander Forbes, Julian Trevelyan and Aubrey Williams.
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> For further information on John Piper’s photographs, please visit www.tate.org.uk/johnpiper.
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> Please email
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> For further information about the project, related films and blogs please visit www.tate.org.uk/art/archive
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> For press information contact Daisy Mallabar or Ruth Findlay in Tate Press Office on 020 7887 8730/4941 or email
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> About the Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF)
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> Thanks to National Lottery players, we invest money to help people across the UK explore, enjoy and protect the heritage they care about - from the archaeology under our feet to the historic parks and buildings we love, from precious memories and collections to rare wildlife. www.hlf.org.uk @heritagelottery
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> Archives and Access project
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> The Archives and Access project is a five year programme of digital access, participation and learning with archives, featuring new initiatives and activities at Tate Britain, on the Tate website and with partners across the UK.
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> Tate is collaborating with five lead partner organisations along with representatives from more than 70 local organisations on a series of projects which bring together Tate’s newly digitised collection with each region’s own archival sources to explore their local and national heritage using newly generated content and digital tools. The programme involves the Josef Herman Art Foundation Cymru in Ystradgynlais, Tate Britain, Tate Liverpool, Tyne & Wear Archives & Museums and Turner Contemporary in Margate.
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> Recent activities include artist Rabab Ghazoul’s residency with the Josef Herman Art Foundation Cymru. The project culminated in a collaboration with the local community from Ystradgynlais on new choral works in response to the drawings and sketches of Polish artist Josef Herman who lived in the mining town in the 1940s and 50s. Current projects include a collaboration between Tate Liverpool, Alder Hey Children’s Hospital and artist Harriet Hall which investigates how art and archives can illuminate the 100 year history of the hospital and its local neighbourhood, and mark the transition from Alder Hey’s current site to a new state-of-the-art building.
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> As part of opening up access to the Archive, Tate has developed new ways of engaging with these historic materials. This includes a new series of films, Animating the Archives; an online ‘albums’ feature allowing visitors to group together archive items and artworks that they can add to, comment on and share; Archive Gallery tours at weekends; and access to images under a Creative Commons licence. Tate will be the first fine arts organisation to collaborate with the Zooniverse team led by the University of Oxford to crowdsource full text transcriptions of handwritten documents.
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