Mark Haworth-Booth

Mark Haworth-Booth OBE (born 20 August 1944) is a British academic and historian of photography. He was a curator at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London from 1970 to 2004. ^[1]

Family

Hull Bank House, East Riding Yorks

His family on his father’s side were minor gentry seated at Hull Bank House, Kingston upon Hull Yorkshire, now Haworth Hall. One of his forebears married the sister of the poet and MP for Hull, Andrew Marvell. ^[2]

Early life and education

Haworth-Booth was the youngest son of Alderman Antony Haworth-Booth, chairman of East Sussex County Council, and Eva Holm, only daughter of the Danish stage and film actress Astrid Holm and her husband Holger Holm, ballet dancer and film actor.

He was educated at Brighton College before going up to Clare College, Cambridge to read English literature, before undertaking postgraduate studies in Art history at the University of Edinburgh and (much later) creative writing at Exeter (MA with Distinction).

Work

Haworth-Booth started his career at the Manchester Art Gallery in 1969 and worked at the Victoria and Albert Museum from 1970 to 2004, becoming Senior Curator of Photographs and played a major role in building up its collection of photography. He has curated many exhibitions, including Photography: An Independent Art (1997), ^[3] 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. ^[4] He researched the Silvy Exhibition catalogue at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, as a Museum Scholar in 2008. ^[5]

Inaugural Visiting Professor of Photography at the University of the Arts London (2002–2009), ^[6] he acted as a consultant on the BBC television series The Genius of Photography, aired in 2007 and again in 2009. ^[7]

Since retiring from most photographic activity he has focused on environmental campaigning and writing. He has published poems in national magazines since 1986, won awards and published two books of poems: Wild Track (2005) and Wild is the Wind (with Tessa Traeger’s photographs, 2017). Since May 2023 he has been a Green Party councillor on North Devon District council.

Personal life

Haworth-Booth lives in North Devon with his wife Rosie (née Miles), whom he married in 1979. Rosemary Miles (her professional name) made many important acquisitions of BAME printmakers for the V&A collection and served as the chair of Autograph, the Association of Black Photographers. They have two daughters.

Honours

OBE insignia

• 2005: OBE, for "services to museums".

Academic awards

• 1987: Hood Medal, Royal Photographic Society ^[8]
• 1996: Hon FRPS, Royal Photographic Society ^[9]
• 2005: Honorary Research Fellow, Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A)
• 2006: Fenton Award, Royal Photographic Society ^[10]
• 2006: Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art ^[11]
• 2012: Honorary Doctor of Arts, University of the Arts (Hon DA) ^[12]
• 2024: Eastlake Medal and Honorary Fellowship, Royal Photographic Society

Publications

• Mark Haworth-Booth (1992), Camille Silvy: River Scene, France, Getty Publications, ISBN   978-0-89236-205-9
• Haworth-Booth, Mark (1994), Metamorphoses : photography in the electronic age (1st ed.), Aperture Foundation, ISBN   978-0-89381-602-5
• Arnatt, Keith; Haworth-Booth, Mark; Aperture Foundation (1988), British photography : towards a bigger picture, Aperture, ISBN   978-0-89381-340-6
• Bernard, Bruce; Haworth-Booth, Mark (25 October 2002), One hundred photographs : a collection by Bruce Bernard, Phaidon Press (published 2002), ISBN   978-0-7148-4278-3
• Haworth-Booth, Mark; McCullin, Don (1983), Donald McCullin, Collins, ISBN   978-0-00-411935-9
• Strand, Paul; Haworth-Booth, Mark (1997). Paul Strand . Aperture (published 1987). ISBN   978-0-89381-746-6.
• Victoria and Albert Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings; Strong, Roy; Haworth-Booth, Mark (1981). Old and modern masters of photography. H.M.S.O. ISBN   978-0-11-290362-8.
• Victoria & Albert Museum; Haworth-Booth, Mark (1997). Photography, an independent art : photographs from the Victoria and Albert Museum 1839-1996. V & A Publications. ISBN   978-1-85177-204-9.
• Yoneda, Tomoko; Haworth-Booth, Mark; Iizawa, Kōtarō (2004). Between visible. Nazraeli Press in association with JGS. ISBN   978-1-59005-045-3.
• Haworth-Booth, Mark (2006). The Folio Society book of the 100 greatest photographs. Folio Society. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
• Haworth-Booth, Mark; Miller, Lee (January 2007). The art of Lee Miller (Hardback ed.). V&A (published 2007). ISBN   978-0-300-12375-3.
• Baltz, Lewis; Haworth-Booth, Mark (1986). San Quentin Point (1st ed.). Aperture. ISBN   978-0-89381-247-8.
• Haworth-Booth, Mark (2004). Things : a spectrum of photography 1850-2001. Jonathan Cape in association with the Victoria & Albert Museum. ISBN   978-0-224-07289-2.
• Mellor, David; Brandt, Bill; Haworth-Booth, Mark (1985). Bill Brandt, behind the camera : photographs, 1928-1983. Aperture. ISBN   978-0-89381-191-4.
• Coe, Brian; Haworth-Booth, Mark (1983). A guide to early photographic processes. Victoria & Albert Museum. ISBN   978-0-903696-23-4.
• Brandt, Bill (1977). Shadow of light : photographs ([New] / introductions by Cyril Connolly and Mark Haworth-Booth ed.). Gordon Fraser Gallery. ISBN   978-0-900406-65-2.
• Brandt, Bill; Haworth-Booth, Mark; Bill Brandt Archive (2004). Brandt nudes : a new perspective (Edition limited to 1000 copies of which numbers 1-100 include a platinum print ed.). Bill Brandt Archive. ISBN   978-0-9547048-0-3.
• Victoria & Albert Museum (1984). Haworth-Booth, Mark (ed.). The Golden age of British photography, 1839-1900 : photographs from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, with selections from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Royal Archives, Windsor Castle, the Royal Photographic Society, Bath, Science Museum, London, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh . Aperture in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art; New York : Distributed in the U.S. by Viking Penguin. ISBN   978-0-89381-145-7.
• Haworth-Booth, Mark, (curator.) (1988), Hitchcock, Barbara (ed.), Selections 4 : the International Polaroid Collection, Polaroid Corporation, ISBN   978-0-9616459-2-2
• Arnatt, Keith; Rose, Andrea; Haworth-Booth, Mark (1992), One foot has not yet reached the next street, The British Council, ISBN   978-0-86355-144-4
• Moffat, Curtis; Barnes, Martin, 1971-, (editor.); Haworth-Booth, Mark, (writer of supplementary textual content.); Stevenson, James, (writer of supplementary textual content.) (2016), Curtis Moffat : silver society : experimental photography and design, 1923-1935 (First ed.), Göttingen, Germany Steidl London V&A Museum, ISBN   978-3-95829-027-3 {{citation}}: |author2= has generic name (help)
• Gill, Stephen; Haworth-Booth, Mark (2005), Invisible (1st ed.), Nobody, ISBN   978-0-9549405-0-8
• Haworth-Booth, Mark; Kauffer, E. McKnight (Edward McKnight), 1890-1954 (1979), E. McKnight Kauffer : a designer and his public, Gordon Fraser Gallery, ISBN   978-0-86092-034-2
• Martin, Paul; Haworth-Booth, Mark (1988), A Yarmouth holiday, Nishen, ISBN   978-1-85378-104-9
• Goldblatt, David; Haworth-Booth, Mark; Danelzik-Brüggemann, Christoph; Stevenson, Michael, 1966- (2005), David Goldblatt : South African : intersections, Prestel, ISBN   978-3-7913-3247-5
• Haworth-Booth, Mark; Young, Michael (1988), Assignments 2 : the British Press Photographers' Association yearbook, Phaidon Press, ISBN   978-0-7148-2563-2
• Barnes, Martin; Haworth-Booth, Mark (2001), Benjamin Brecknell Turner : rural England through a Victorian lens, V&A Publications, ISBN   978-1-85177-335-0
• Derges, Susan; Haworth-Booth, Mark; Cotton, Charlotte (1999), Susan Derges : woman thinking river, Fraenkel Gallery; New York : Danziger Gallery, ISBN   978-1-881337-06-5
• Haworth-Booth, Mark; Brandt, Bill (1975), The Land : twentieth century landscape photographs, Gordon Fraser Gallery, ISBN   978-0-900406-71-3
• Phillips, Sandra S; Haworth-Booth, Mark; Squiers, Carol, 1948- (1997), Police pictures : the photograph as evidence, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, ISBN   978-0-8118-1984-8
• Haworth-Booth, Mark (1989), Photography now, Dirk Nishen in association with the Victoria & Albert Museum, ISBN   978-1-85378-012-7
• Haworth-Booth, Mark (1991), The Origins of British photography, Thames and Hudson, ISBN   978-0-500-41082-0
• Brandt, Bill; Haworth-Booth, Mark (1951), Literary Britain (New ed.), Aperture (published 1986), ISBN   978-0-905209-66-1
• Goldblatt, David; Stevenson, Michael, (writer of added commentary.); Haworth-Booth, Mark, (contributor.) (2014), Regarding intersections (First revised Steidl ed.), Steidl, ISBN   978-3-86930-714-5 {{citation}}: |author3= has generic name (help)
• Bonnell, Sian; Gooding, Mel; Haworth-Booth, Mark (2004), Sian Bonnell : From an Elsewhere Unknown, Ffotogallery [and] Hirschl Contemporary Art, ISBN   978-1-872771-51-9
• Haworth-Booth, Mark; Scherf, Jone Elissa; St. Andrews, George; Frans Halsmuseum (2001), Making your dreams come true : young British photography, Hatje Cantz Verlag, ISBN   978-3-7757-1119-7
• Haworth-Booth, Mark; Weston, Edward, 1886-1958 (1977), Edward Weston, Arts Council, ISBN   978-0-7287-0126-7
• Dolron, Desiree; Haworth-Booth, Mark; Assouline, Pierre (2006), Desiree Dolron : exaltation, gaze, xteriors, Éditions Xavier Barral : Institut néerlandais, ISBN   978-2-915173-15-4
• Pauli, Lori; Haworth-Booth, Mark; Torosian, Michael, 1952-; Baker, Kenneth, 1946-; Burtynsky, Edward, 1955- (2003), Manufactured landscapes : the photographs of Edward Burtynsky, National Gallery of Canada in association with Yale University Press, ISBN   978-0-300-09943-0
• Cohen, Morton N. (Morton Norton); Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898; Flukinger, Roy, 1947-; Haworth-Booth, Mark (1998), Reflections in a looking glass : a centennial celebration of Lewis Carroll, photographer (1st ed.), Aperture Foundation, ISBN   978-0-89381-796-1
• Chadwick, Helen; Warner, Marina, 1946-; Buck, Louisa; Mellor, David; Haworth-Booth, Mark (1996), Stilled lives : Helen Chadwick, Portfolio Gallery; Odense, Denmark : Kunsthallen Brandts klædefabrik, ISBN   978-0-9520608-3-3
• Haworth-Booth, Mark; McCauley, Anne (1998), The museum & the photograph : collecting photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1853-1900, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, ISBN   978-0-931102-40-0
• Hockney, David; Hockney, David; Haworth-Booth, Mark (1983), Hockney's photographs, Arts Council of Great Britain, ISBN   978-0-7287-0382-7
• Hoppé, E. O. (Emil Otto); Haworth-Booth, Mark (2006), Hoppé's London (Limited ed.), Guiding Light, ISBN   978-0-9551863-0-1
• Bohm, Dorothy; Haworth-Booth, Mark; Bohm-Duchen, Monica (1998), Walls and windows, Lund Humphries, ISBN   978-0-85331-718-0
• Bradford, Richard; Haworth-Booth, Mark, (writer of foreword.) (26 October 2015), The importance of elsewhere : Philip Larkin's photographs, Frances Lincoln Limited (published 2015), ISBN   978-0-7112-3631-8
• Davidson, Bruce (2005), England/ Scotland, 1960 (1st ed.), Steidl; London : Thames & Hudson [distributor], ISBN   978-3-86521-127-9
• Brandt, Bill (1977), Ombre de lumière : photographies, Chêne, retrieved 12 February 2019

With essays by

• Bush, Andrew (1989), Bonnettstown, H.N. Abrams, ISBN   978-0-8109-0748-5
• Jack, Ian (2006), On the road again : where travel writing went next , Granta Publications, ISBN   978-0-903141-86-4 (Essay: Homage to mount desert island : a small resort, but there's so much to do)
• Weaver, Mike (25 August 1989), British photography in the nineteenth century : the fine art tradition , Cambridge University Press (published 1989), ISBN   978-0-521-34119-6 (Essay: Benjamin Brecknell Turner : Photographic views from nature)
• Weinberg, Adam D; Gilman, Sondra; Wiggins, Marianne; Roalf, Peggy; Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972. When I buy pictures (1998), From the heart : the power of photography, a collector's choice (1st ed.), Art Museum of South Texas; [New York, N.Y.] : Aperture, ISBN   978-0-89381-809-8 (Preface)
• Baltz, Lewis; Turrell, Julia Brown; Heiferman, Marvin (1990), Rule without exception, University of New Mexico Press in association with the Des Moines Art Center, ISBN   978-0-8263-1269-3 (Essay: San Quentin Point)
• Newhall, Beaumont, 1908-1993; Walch, Peter (Peter S.), 1940-; Barrow, Thomas F (1986), Perspectives on photography : essays in honor of Beaumont Newhall (1st ed.), University of New Mexico Press, ISBN   978-0-8263-0863-4 (Essay: A Connoisseur of the art of photography in the 1850s: The Rev. C. H. Townsend)
• Benton, Charlotte; Benton, Tim, 1945-; Wood, Ghislaine (2003), Art deco 1910-1939, V&A (published 2005), ISBN   978-1-85177-388-6 (Essay: Photography and the new vision)
• Aynsley, Jeremy; Atkinson, Harriet (November 2009), The Banham lectures : essays on designing the future (English ed.), Berg (published 2009), ISBN   978-1-84788-302-5 (Essay: Reyner Banham and photography)
• Bann, Stephen (2011), Art and the early photographic album, National Gallery of Art; New Haven [Conn.] : Distributed by Yale University Press, ISBN   978-0-300-13590-9 (Essay: Camille Silvy : the photography of works of art as record and restoration)
• Alpine journal (v. 114, Ernest press (published 2010), 10 March 2010, ISBN   978-0-948153-94-5 (Essay: The Return of Vittorio Sella)
• Hoozee, Robert (2007), British vision : observation and imagination in British art, 1750-1950, Mercatorfonds; Ghent, [Belgium] : Museum voor Schone Kunsten, 2007, ISBN   978-90-6153-748-9 (Essay Roger Fenton, Double Bridge on the Machno)(Essay Bill Brandt, Young Housewife, Bethnal Green, 1937)

Collections

Haworth-Booth's work is held in the following permanent collection:

• National Portrait Gallery, London: 18 Polaroid prints (as of June 2020) ^[13]

See also

• Adrian Hardy Haworth

Arms

Coat of arms of Mark Haworth-Booth

Crest (1) A figure representing St Catherine robed and crowned as a queen kneeling affrontée, in the dexter hand a Catherine Wheel, in the sinister hand a Sword supported the point downwards all proper (for BOOTH(ancient)); (2) A stag’s head gules attired or gorged with a collar of roses argent (for HAWORTH). Escutcheon Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Argent three Boars’ Heads erect and erased Sable (for BOOTH); 2nd and 3rd, Azure on a Bend between two Stags’ Heads couped Or a Longbow of the Field (for HAWORTH). Motto Quod ero spero ("I will be what I wish to be")

References

1. Things: A Spectrum of Photography, 1850-2001 (London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 2004)
2. "Mark Haworth-Booth - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk.
3. Mark Haworth-Booth (ed.) Photography: An Independent Art (London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1997)
4. www.npg.org.uk.
5. "Pre- and Postdoctoral Fellowships (Getty Foundation)". www.getty.edu.
6. "www.ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk" (PDF).
7. "BBC - Photography - Genius of Photography - Gallery - Man Ray". www.bbc.co.uk.
8. "Hood Medal". rps.org. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
9. "Honorary Fellowship". rps.org. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
10. "Fenton Medal". rps.org. Retrieved 29 September 2021.
11. "Senior Fellows". Royal College of Art.
12. "Honorary awards 2012" University of the Arts London. Accessed 17 September 2016
13. "Mark Haworth-Booth - National Portrait Gallery". www.npg.org.uk. Retrieved 28 June 2020.

External links

• Official website