Mark Haworth-Booth
Mark Haworth-Booth OBE HonFRPS (born 20 August 1944) served as a curator at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, from 1970 to 2004.[1]
Life and career
Haworth-Booth was educated at Brighton College before going to Clare College, University of Cambridge, where he studied English literature, and University of Edinburgh, where he studied art history.
He served as a curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum from 1970 to 2004 and, as senior curator of photographs, helped to build up its collection of photography. He has curated many exhibitions, including Photography: An Independent Art (1997),[2] and Things: A Spectrum of Photography, 1850-2001 (2004).[1] The last photography exhibition he curated, with the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris and the National Portrait Gallery, London, was a centenary retrospective of the pioneering photographer Camille Silvy (1834-1910). It was titled Camille Silvy. Photographer of Modern Life 1834-1910 and exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in 2010.[3] He researched the Silvy exhibition catalogue at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, as a museum scholar in 2008.
He acted as a consultant on the BBC television series The Genius of Photography, aired in 2007 and again in 2009.
Haworth-Booth served as the first Visiting Professor of Photography at the University of the Arts London (2002–09).
He lives with his wife Rosie, whom he married in 1979 in North Devon. They have two daughters.
Awards
- Honorary Research Fellow at the Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A)
- Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art
- 1987: Royal Photographic Society's Hood Medal[4]
- 1996/7: honorary fellowship, Royal Photographic Society[5]
- 2005: Appointed OBE for his "services to museums"
- 2006: Fenton Medal, Royal Photographic Society[6]
- 2012: Honorary Doctor of Arts degree from the University of the Arts London[7]
Publications
- Voices of the Vivarais. Self-published, 2010. By Tessa Traeger. OCLC 880682376. Haworth-Booth contributed an introduction. Edition of 250 copies.
Arms
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References
- 1 2 Things: A Spectrum of Photography, 1850-2001 (London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 2004)
- ↑ Mark Haworth-Booth (ed.) Photography: An Independent Art (London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1997)
- ↑ http://www.npg.org.uk/index.php?id=5754.
- ↑ http://www.rps.org/annual-awards/Hood-Medal
- ↑ http://www.rps.org/annual-awards/Honorary-Fellowships
- ↑ http://www.rps.org/annual-awards/Fenton-Medal
- ↑ "Honorary awards 2012" University of the Arts London. Accessed 17 September 2016