19.08.10
Fay Godwin: Land Revisited exhibition at the National Media Museum
Fay Godwin: Land Revisited is a free-to-enter exhibition at the National Media Museum, Bradford, celebrating the 25th anniversary of an outstanding photographic project by one of Britain’s greatest photographers.
In 1985 Fay Godwin achieved both popular and critical success with her exhibition and accompanying book ‘Land’ – a project which brought not only the artist, but also photography as an art form, to the attention of a wider audience. Between 15 October, 2010, and 27 March, 2011, the National Media Museum is displaying a selection of prints from this acclaimed series of black and white landscape images taken across Britain, from the Orkneys to the South coast.
Colin Harding, curator of the exhibition said: “Fay Godwin was able to capture the differing moods and textures of the British landscape with remarkable sensitivity and without sentimentality. These images established her reputation as one of Britain’s finest landscape photographers.”
Fay Godwin: Land Revisited features approximately 70 vintage prints from the original exhibition, which was shown at the National Media Museum (then the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television) in 1986 when the show toured the UK, and subsequently the USA.
During her career Fay Godwin photographed, collaborated, and was friends with, many leading literary figures including Ted Hughes, Philip Larkin, Salman Rushdie and Angela Carter. She was also president of the Ramblers’ Association from 1987 to 1990 and campaigned heavily for greater public access to, and the conservation of, the British countryside. Fay Godwin died in 2005.
This exhibition at the National Media Museum will give people the chance to revisit this seminal work once again. It will also give new audiences the opportunity to discover the work of one of our most gifted photographers.
Fay Godwin: Land Revisited
Gallery Two
National Media Museum, Bradford
15 October 2010 – 27 March 2011
Free entry to exhibitions
Information: 0844 8563797
www.nationalmediamuseum.org.uk
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