Amanda Hopkinson

Last updated

Amanda Hopkinson (born 1948) is a British scholar and literary translator. [1]

Contents

Biography

She was born in London to the British journalist and magazine editor Sir Tom Hopkinson and photographer Gerti Deutsch. [2] She gained a BA from the University of Warwick in 1970. [2]

During her academic career, Hopkinson has taught at City University, Manchester University, the University of East Anglia, the University of East London, Westminster University and Cardiff University. As a translator, she is best known for her English versions of contemporary Latin American literature. She has also translated several works by the French crime writer Dominique Manotti. In this work, she frequently collaborates with fellow translators Ros Schwartz and her husband Nick Caistor, with whom she lives in Norwich. [3]

Hopkinson is additionally a writer on photography. She has published monographs on Julia Margaret Cameron, Martin Chambi and Manuel Alvarez Bravo, and she has further written or edited a number of books on photography and photojournalism. She has also written the obituaries of numerous photographers for The Guardian newspaper. [4]

Selected translations

Works on photography

Related Research Articles

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Julia Margaret Cameron</span> British photographer (1815–1879)

Julia Margaret Cameron was a British photographer who is considered one of the most important portraitists of the 19th century. She is known for her soft-focus close-ups of famous Victorian men and women, for illustrative images depicting characters from mythology, Christianity, and literature, and for sensitive portraits of men, women and children.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Martín Chambi</span>

Martín Chambi Jiménez was a Peruvian photographer, originally from Puno, in southern Peru. He was one of the first major Indigenous Latin American photographers.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Eve Arnold</span> American photojournalist (1912–2012)

Eve Arnold, OBE (honorary), FRPS (honorary) was an American photojournalist, long-resident in the UK. She joined Magnum Photos agency in 1951, and became a full member in 1957. She was the first woman to join the agency.

<i>Picture Post</i> Weekly photo journal magazine (1938-57)

Picture Post was a photojournalistic magazine published in the United Kingdom from 1938 to 1957. It is considered a pioneering example of photojournalism and was an immediate success, selling 1,700,000 copies a week after only two months. It has been called the UK's equivalent of Life magazine.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Manuel Álvarez Bravo</span> Mexican photographer

Manuel Álvarez Bravo was a Mexican artistic photographer and one of the most important figures in 20th century Latin American photography. He was born and raised in Mexico City. While he took art classes at the Academy of San Carlos, his photography is self-taught. His career spanned from the late 1920s to the 1990s with its artistic peak between the 1920s and 1950s. His hallmark as a photographer was to capture images of the ordinary but in ironic or Surrealistic ways. His early work was based on European influences, but he was soon influenced by the Mexican muralism movement and the general cultural and political push at the time to redefine Mexican identity. He rejected the picturesque, employing elements to avoid stereotyping. He had numerous exhibitions of his work, worked in the Mexican cinema and established Fondo Editorial de la Plástica Mexicana publishing house. He won numerous awards for his work, mostly after 1970. His work was recognized by the UNESCO Memory of the World registry in 2017.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Lola Álvarez Bravo</span> Mexican photographer (1903–1993)

Lola Álvarez Bravo was the first Mexican female photographer and a key figure in the post-revolution Mexican renaissance. Known for her high level of skill in composition, her works were seen by her peers as fine art. She was recognized in 1964 with the Premio José Clemente Orozco, by the State of Jalisco, for her contributions to photography and her efforts to preserve the culture of Mexico. Her works are included in the permanent collections of international museums, including the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Center for Creative Photography</span> Photography archive in Tucson, Arizona

The Center for Creative Photography (CCP), established in 1975 and located on the University of Arizona's Tucson campus, is a research facility and archival repository containing the full archives of over sixty of the most famous American photographers including those of Edward Weston, Harry Callahan and Garry Winogrand, as well as a collection of over 80,000 images representing more than 2,000 photographers. The center also houses the archives for Ansel Adams, including all negatives known to exist at the time of his death. The CCP collects, preserves, interprets, and makes available materials that are essential to understanding photography and its history.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Tom Hopkinson</span> British journalist, picture magazine editor, author, and teacher

Sir Henry Thomas Hopkinson was a British journalist, picture magazine editor, author, and teacher.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Women photographers</span> Women working as photographers

The participation of women in photography goes back to the very origins of the process. Several of the earliest women photographers, most of whom were from Britain or France, were married to male pioneers or had close relationships with their families. It was above all in northern Europe that women first entered the business of photography, opening studios in Denmark, France, Germany, and Sweden from the 1840s, while it was in Britain that women from well-to-do families developed photography as an art in the late 1850s. Not until the 1890s, did the first studios run by women open in New York City.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Gerti Deutsch</span> Austrian-born British photographer

Gertrude Helene "Gerti" Deutsch (1908–1979), also known as Gertrude Hopkinson, was an Austrian-born British photographer. She is best known for her work for the magazine Picture Post, from 1938 until 1950.

Nick Caistor is a British translator and journalist, best known for his translations of Spanish and Portuguese literature. He is a past winner of the Valle-Inclán Prize for translation. He is a regular contributor to BBC Radio 4, the BBC World Service, The Times Literary Supplement, and The Guardian. He lives in Norwich, and is married to fellow translator Amanda Hopkinson.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Colette Álvarez Urbajtel</span> French-Mexican photographer (1934–2020)


Colette Álvarez Urbajtel was a French-Mexican photographer, whose work, mostly of everyday life, was in black-and-white until 1990. She is the widow of Mexican photographer Manuel Álvarez Bravo, who taught her until she became a photographer in her own right. Her work has been exhibited extensively both in Mexico and abroad. It has been recognized with membership in the Salón de la Plástica Mexicana, two retrospectives and has been featured in several books and magazines.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Dominique Manotti</span> French crime writer and economic historian

Dominique Manotti is a French crime writer and economic historian. She has written more than a dozen books, many of which have been translated. Among her many prizes is the 2011 Grand Prix de Littérature Policière, the most prestigious award in French crime fiction.

Violet Hamilton was a photographer who lived and worked in Australia, the US and the UK.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">Fotohof</span> Publishing house, gallery, photography archive, library, education in Salzburg, Austria

Fotohof is a Salzburg-based non-commercial gallery and publishing company specialising in contemporary fine art photography. Its sponsoring body is the Association for the Promotion of Auteur Photography, founded in 1981.

Ros Schwartz is an English literary translator, who translates Francophone literature into English. In 2009 she was awarded the Chevalier d’Honneur dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres for her services to French literature.

May Mirin (1900-1997) was an American photographer who documented life in Mexico.

Evelyne Z. Daitz was a Swiss-born American art dealer, curator, and agent, specializing in photography. She was the owner and director of the Witkin Gallery in New York from 1984 to 1999.

<span class="mw-page-title-main">International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum</span>

The International Photography Hall of Fame and Museum in St. Louis, Missouri honors those who have made great contributions to the field of photography.

References

  1. "Amanda Hopkinson | Arcadia Books". arcadiabooks.co.uk. Retrieved 20 January 2016.
  2. 1 2 "Contemporary Authors Online". Biography in Context. Gale. 2006. Retrieved 21 January 2016.
  3. "Nick Caistor, Non-fiction writer, Translator". Royal Literary Fund . Retrieved 16 October 2014.
  4. "Amanda Hopkinson". The Guardian. Retrieved 20 January 2016.