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Hilary Roberts and Mark Holborn
Cecil Beaton and Photographers at War
11:30am | Sunday 16 September 2012Tickets: | Duration: | Venue: |
£N/A | 1 Hour | Blenheim Palace: The Indian Room |
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Historian Hilary Roberts and publisher Mark Holborn discuss war photography and its role in documenting the horrors and realities of conflict. Their conversation will be illustrated by iconic war images. Roberts is head curator of the Imperial War Museums’ photograph archive and recently worked with Holborn, editor at Jonathan Cape responsible for illustrated books, on Cecil Beaton: Theatre of War, to accompany the exhibition of the same name. Beaton was one of the best known photographers of the Second World War. He was commissioned by the Ministry of Information and his wartime travels took him to the Western desert, Iraq, Palestine, Syria, India and Burma. His 7,000 photographs are now housed at the Imperial War Museums. Roberts and Holborn are now working together on a 500-page photographic archive of the First World War to be published next year.
Roberts is a specialist in the history of war photography. She also works closely with photographers covering current conflicts. Holborn has worked with many of the world’s leading photographers and artists including Richard Avedon, Lucian Freud, Antony Gormley, Annie Leibovitz, Issey Miyake and Don McCullin. He is an author in his own right. His study of art and science from Linnaeus to Lennart Nilsson is published this year.
The price for this event includes a glass of wine.