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Tom Wood - The DPA Work
Quayle, Cian
Quayle, Cian
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2024-06-27
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Tom Wood - The DPA Work (book covers)
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Tom Wood - The DPA Work Volume 1: Photographs of Rainhill Hospital, 1988 - 1990
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Tom Wood - The DPA Work Volume 2: Photographs of Cammell Laird Shipyard, 1993 - 1996
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Tom Wood - The DPA Work Volume 3: Rainhill Hospital Archive Portraits, 1890 - 1891
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'Tom Wood - The DPA Work' is the culmination of a long term research project led by Dr Cian Quayle. The Documentary Photography Archive was founded by Audrey Linkman, in Manchester, in 1985. In 2012 photographer Tom Wood invited Quayle to investigate an archive of two landmark commissions which he had undertaken for the DPA, which had lain dormant and unseen since their deposit with the DPA and holding at Greater Manchester County Record Office. Wood first exhibited a selection of the Rainhill Hospital photographs at the Open Eye Gallery in 1988, and in 2020 current Open Eye Executive Director Sarah Fisher has described the instrumental significance of Quayle's role as 'independent researcher-curator' evidenced in new writing, the collaborations, commissions, exhibitions, publications and events, which he has curated, authored, edited, and published. The development of the book project emanated from The DPA Work exhibitions at Contemporary Art Space Chester, which featured as part of Look 13 Liverpool International Photography Festival and the publication of Tom Wood - The DPA Work are the culmination of this research. In his writing Quayle contextualised the origin of the DPA projects, the subsequent journey, reception and wider reach of Wood's work. The introductory, contextual essay 'Tom Wood - The DPA Work' revisits the basis for the original commissions and their contemporary significance and wider contextual understanding and interpretation.
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Quayle, C. (2024). Tom Wood - The DPA Work. Steidl.
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The DPA Work comprises three volumes: Volume 1 Photographs of Rainhill Hospital, 1988 - 1990. Volume 2: Photographs of Cammell Laird Shipyard, 1993 - 1996. Volume 3 Rain hill Hospital Archive portraits 1890 - 1891 is a companion book, which is based on a collection of 19 c. admission photographs of Rainhill Hospital patients. Quayle's collaboration with Tom Wood also involved the research and integration of material from public archives: photographs, artefacts and documents related to the century long history of Cammell Laird Shipyard at Wirral Archives Service in Birkenhead. This material has been described as 'crucial' by Wirral archivist William Meredith in the contextual background against which Wood's photographs were reconfigured. Quayle was also able to commission new writing from Audrey Linkman who was founder of the DPA. Acclaimed poet Clare Shaw was also invited by Quayle to respond to Wood's Rainhill images. The project can also be seen as a precursor of socially-engaged photographic practices. Quayle and Wood collaborated on the selection and edit of the images from each body of work.
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