John Blakemore ARCHIVE c.1956-2020

The Hyman Collection includes a substantial archive spanning the whole of John Blakemore's career. It includes framed exhibition prints, mounted vintage photographs, and work prints as well as his negatives from the 1950s to the 2020s. It also includes over seventy unique hand-made artist's books. The archive also holds letters, notebooks, manuscripts and typescripts, book dummies and layout plans. As well as this extensive archive, purchased from Blakemore, himself, the Hyman Collection also holds archival material acquired from his friend and fellow photographer and educator, Richard Sadler. This second body of material includes photographs, letters, manuscripts, installation views, teaching notes, catalogues and magazines.

We are in the process of cataloguing and digitising this archive. Below is a selection of items.