Frank Sutcliffe: Photographer of Whitby Hiley Michael
Frank Sutcliffe: Photographer of Whitby Hiley Michael As one of the first men to devote his life and creative energy to photography, Frank Sutcliffe moved away from the confines of Victorian…
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Frank Sutcliffe: Photographer of Whitby Hiley Michael
As one of the first men to devote his life and creative energy to photography, Frank Sutcliffe moved away from the confines of Victorian photographic conventions, which were based on artifice, and set himself the task of photographing the people and the countryside that he saw around him in as truthful and straightforward a manner as his equipment would allow. Michael Hiley has traced Sutcliffe's writings on photography, many of which are to be found only in newspaper archives and specialist photographic libraries. Despite his rarely leaving Whitby, Sutcliffe's work was known, exhibited and copied all over the world.
The years of his greatest success were years of unprecedented upheaval in both painting and photography, and this book sets out to establish the As the son of a painter, Sutcliffe was aware both of the unique qualities of photography and of the debt it owed to painting.