Documentary photography
Subject
Subject Source: Library of Congress Subject Headings
Found in 14 Collections and/or Records:
Archive of Daniel Meadows, photographer and social documentarist
Collection
Archive of Daniel Meadows, British photographer and social documentarist, 1969-2014.
Extents: 25.52 Linear metres (233 boxes, 248 digital shelfmarks)
Dates:
1969-2022, n.d.
Archive of Frederick Augustus Christal
Collection
Research notes and office diaries of Frederick Christal (1921-2006), sanitarian.
Extents: 1.05 Linear metres (7 boxes)
Dates:
1949-1982
Archive of Helen Muspratt
Collection
Correspondence, papers and photographs of Oxford-based studio and documentary photographer Helen Muspratt (1907-2001) including material gathered for a book about her work by her daughter Jessica Sutcliffe.
Extents: 31.531 Linear metres (97 boxes)
Dates:
1900-2016
Archive of Mohamed Amin
Collection
Archive of Mohamed Amin, and other photojournalists, working for the Camerapix photography agency.
Extents: 4.5 Linear metres (53 boxes)
Dates:
1946-1992
Collection of Photographs by Sunil Gupta and Charan Singh
Collection
The archive comprises:
62 prints of images featured in the series Come Out (2024) by Sunil Gupta, documenting Pride marches in London from 1985 to 1995.
37 prints of images featured in the series Delhi: Communities of Belonging (2016) by Sunil Gupta and Charan Singh, chronicling contemporary LGBTQ life in Delhi amidst a surge of...
Extents: 0.13 Linear metres (3 boxes)
Dates:
1985-2016
Collection of prints and maquettes by Arturo Soto
Collection
Prints and maquettes from the series A Certain Logic of Expectations, in which Arturo Soto photographs the liminal spaces of the city of Oxford. Soto aims to document a counter-narrative of the city that resists the overbearing iconography of the university. The work challenges the city's established narratives of tradition, influence, and power. Soto's visual narrative is structured around several thematic strands: notions of home and homelessness, the looming...
Extents: 0.5 Linear metres (7 boxes)
Dates:
2015-2021
The Hyman Collection of British Photographs
Collection
One hundred prints of 20th century British photographers donated by Claire and James Hyman.
Extents: 1.0 Linear metre (9 boxes)
Dates:
1928-1994
Photograph by Lewis Hine of a street scene outside Amoskeog Mills, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. Photogr. c. 572, fol. 105
Photograph by Lewis Hine of a street scene outside Amoskeog Mills, Manchester, New Hampshire, USA.
Extents: 1 leaf
Dates:
25 May 1909
Photographs by Markéta Luskačová documenting the Oxford Schools Sculpture Project
Single Item
32 black and white silver bromide photographs documenting the Oxford Schools Sculpture Project by Markéta Luskačová. Commissioned in 1983 by the Museum of Modern Art, Oxford and exhibited at MOMA between 1 April and 20 May 1984. Also included are various documents relating to the project.
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
1983-1984
Portfolio of photographs by Chloe Dewe Mathews from the series Caspian: The Elements
Single Item
A portfolio of photographs from the series Caspian: The Elements by Chloe Dewe Mathews. Taken between 2010 and 2015 in Iran, Southern Russia and Azerbaijan, as part of a body of work that took the photographer around the communities and towns around the Caspian. Dewe Mathews also visited Turkmenistan and Kazakhstan. Her work shows how everyday life in the region is tangled with the sea, and surrounding land, and rich mineral resources. She found lives driven by...
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
2010-2021
The postcard collection of the artist Tom Phillips
Collection
Photographic postcards collected by Tom Phillips and arranged by theme.
Extents: 7.77 Linear metres (111 boxes)
Dates:
c.1890s-1960s
Silver gelatine print by Henri Cartier-Bresson and associated documents
Single Item
'Sunday on the Banks of the River Seine'; a silver gelatine print by Henri Cartier-Bresson; signed and dedicated to Dr. Hazel Rossotti, as thanks for her nomination of Cartier-Bresson for an honorary doctorate at Oxford University. Also included are the order of proceedings from the 1975 Encaenia ceremony and transcripts of the address that the university orator John G. Griffith gave to Cartier-Bresson.
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
Majority of material found within Bulk, 1974-1975; 1938-1975
Small Town Inertia by J.A. Mortram
Collection
Photographs, writings, audio, and video content from J.A. Mortram's project Small Town Inertia, a documentary study of the impact of austerity on the people living around Dereham in Norfolk.
Extents: 0.5 Linear metres (4 boxes)
Dates:
2006-2023
Two photographs of the Tiananmen Square protests
Single Item
Shelfmark: MS. 22903 photogr.
Two photographs of the 1989 Tiananmen Square protests in Beijing, taken by Edgar Huang. Mounted on black board, with a description written on the reverse by the photographer.
Extents: 1 box
Dates:
1989