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{{Short description|British academic and historian of photography}}{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2017}}{{Use British English|date=November 2017}}Mark Haworth-Booth {{post-nominals|country=GBR|sep=,|size=100%|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.Things: A Spectrum of Photography, 1850-2001 (London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 2004)

Family

(File:Haworth Hall on the River Hull - geograph.org.uk - 259098.jpg|thumb|right|220px| 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.WEB,www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/portrait/mw196393/Mark-Haworth-Booth, Mark Haworth-Booth - National Portrait Gallery, www.npg.org.uk,

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),Mark Haworth-Booth (ed.) Photography: An Independent Art (London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1997) and Things: A Spectrum of Photography, 1850–2001 (2004). 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.www.npg.org.uk. He researched the Silvy Exhibition catalogue at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, as a Museum Scholar in 2008.WEB,www.getty.edu/foundation/initiatives/residential/getty_pre_postdoctoral_fellowships.html, Pre- and Postdoctoral Fellowships (Getty Foundation), www.getty.edu, Inaugural Visiting Professor of Photography at the University of the Arts London (2002–2009),WEB,ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk/7877/1/MHaworth-Booth%2Bbook%2BC.pdf, www.ualresearchonline.arts.ac.uk, he acted as a consultant on the BBC television series The Genius of Photography, aired in 2007 and again in 2009.WEB,www.bbc.co.uk/photography/genius/gallery/ray.shtml, BBC - Photography - Genius of Photography - Gallery - Man Ray, www.bbc.co.uk, 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).

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

(File:Medal, order (AM 2001.25.651-1).jpg|thumb|right|100px|OBE insignia)

• 2005: OBE, for “services to museums”.

Academic awards

• 1987: Hood Medal, Royal Photographic SocietyWEB, 2021-09-29, Hood Medal,rps.org/about/awards/history-and-recipients/hood-medal/, rps.org,
• 1996: Hon FRPS, Royal Photographic SocietyWEB, 2021-09-29, Honorary Fellowship,rps.org/about/awards/history-and-recipients/honorary-fellowship/, rps.org,
• 2005: Honorary Research Fellow, Victoria & Albert Museum (V&A)
• 2006: Fenton Award, Royal Photographic SocietyWEB, 2021-09-29, Fenton Medal,rps.org/about/awards/history-and-recipients/fenton-medal/, rps.org,
• 2006: Senior Fellow of the Royal College of ArtWEB,www.rca.ac.uk/more/about-rca/our-history/college-honours/senior-fellows/, Senior Fellows, Royal College of Art,
• 2012: Honorary Doctor of Arts, University of the Arts (Hon DA)“Honorary awards 2012” University of the Arts London. Accessed 17 September 2016

Publications

• {{Citation | author1=Mark Haworth-Booth | title=Camille Silvy: River Scene, France | year=1992 | publication-date=1992 | publisher=Getty Publications | isbn=978-0-89236-205-9 | url=https://archive.org/details/camillesilvyrive00hawo }}
• {{Citation | author1=Haworth-Booth, Mark | author2=Aperture Foundation | title=Metamorphoses : photography in the electronic age | year=1994 | publication-date=1994 | publisher=Aperture Foundation | edition= 1st | isbn=978-0-89381-602-5 }}
• {{Citation | author1=Arnatt, Keith | author2=Haworth-Booth, Mark | author3=Aperture Foundation | title=British photography : towards a bigger picture | year=1988 | publication-date=1988 | publisher=Aperture | isbn=978-0-89381-340-6 }}
• {{Citation | author1=Bernard, Bruce | author2=Haworth-Booth, Mark | title=One hundred photographs : a collection by Bruce Bernard | date=25 October 2002 | publication-date=2002 | publisher=Phaidon Press | isbn=978-0-7148-4278-3 }}
• {{Citation | author1=Haworth-Booth, Mark | author2=McCullin, Don | title=Donald McCullin | year=1983 | publication-date=1983 | publisher=Collins | isbn=978-0-00-411935-9 }}
• BOOK, Strand, Paul, Haworth-Booth, Mark, Paul Strand, 1997, 1987, Aperture, 978-0-89381-746-6, registration,archive.org/details/paulstrand0000stra,
• BOOK, Victoria and Albert Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings, Strong, Roy, Haworth-Booth, Mark, Old and modern masters of photography, 1981, 1981, H.M.S.O, 978-0-11-290362-8,
• BOOK, Victoria & Albert Museum, Haworth-Booth, Mark, Photography, an independent art : photographs from the Victoria and Albert Museum 1839-1996, 1997, V & A Publications, 978-1-85177-204-9,
• BOOK, Yoneda, Tomoko, Haworth-Booth, Mark, Iizawa, Kōtarō, Between visible, 2004, 2004, Nazraeli Press in association with JGS, 978-1-59005-045-3,
• BOOK, Haworth-Booth, Mark, Folio Society (London, England), The Folio Society book of the 100 greatest photographs, 2006, Folio Society,trove.nla.gov.au/work/21011563, 12 February 2019,
• BOOK, Haworth-Booth, Mark, Miller, Lee, The art of Lee Miller, January 2007, 2007, V&A, Hardback, 978-0-300-12375-3, registration,archive.org/details/artofleemiller0000hawo,
• BOOK, Baltz, Lewis, Haworth-Booth, Mark, San Quentin Point, 1986, 1986, Aperture, 1st, 978-0-89381-247-8,
• BOOK, Haworth-Booth, Mark, Victoria and Albert Museum, Things : a spectrum of photography 1850-2001, 2004, 2004, Jonathan Cape in association with the Victoria & Albert Museum, 978-0-224-07289-2,
• BOOK, Mellor, David, Brandt, Bill, Haworth-Booth, Mark, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Bill Brandt, behind the camera : photographs, 1928-1983, 1985, 1985, Aperture, 978-0-89381-191-4,
• BOOK, Coe, Brian, Haworth-Booth, Mark, Victoria and Albert Museum, A guide to early photographic processes, 1983, 1983, Victoria & Albert Museum, 978-0-903696-23-4,
• BOOK, Brandt, Bill, Shadow of light : photographs, 1977, 1977, Gordon Fraser Gallery, [New] / introductions by Cyril Connolly and Mark Haworth-Booth, 978-0-900406-65-2,
• BOOK, Brandt, Bill, Haworth-Booth, Mark, Bill Brandt Archive, Brandt nudes : a new perspective, 2004, 2004, Bill Brandt Archive, Edition limited to 1000 copies of which numbers 1-100 include a platinum print, 978-0-9547048-0-3,
• BOOK, Victoria & Albert Museum, Aperture, Inc, Philadelphia Museum of Art, 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, 1984, Haworth-Booth, Mark, 1984, 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, 978-0-89381-145-7, registration,archive.org/details/goldenageofbriti0000unse,
• {{Citation |author1=Haworth-Booth, Mark, (curator.) |author2=Polaroid Corporation |title=Selections 4 : the International Polaroid Collection |year=1988 |publication-date=1988 |editor-last=Hitchcock |editor-first=Barbara |publisher=Polaroid Corporation |isbn=978-0-9616459-2-2}}
• {{Citation | author1=Arnatt, Keith | author2=Rose, Andrea | author3=Haworth-Booth, Mark | author4=British Council | title=One foot has not yet reached the next street | year=1992 | publication-date=1992 | publisher=The British Council | isbn=978-0-86355-144-4 }}
• {{Citation | author1=Moffat, Curtis | author2=Barnes, Martin, 1971-, (editor.) | author3=Haworth-Booth, Mark, (writer of supplementary textual content.) | author4=Stevenson, James, (writer of supplementary textual content.) | title=Curtis Moffat : silver society : experimental photography and design, 1923-1935 | year=2016 | publication-date=2016 | publisher=Göttingen, Germany Steidl London V&A Museum | edition= First | isbn=978-3-95829-027-3 }}
• {{Citation | author1=Gill, Stephen | author2=Haworth-Booth, Mark | author3=Victoria Miro Gallery | title=Invisible | year=2005 | publication-date=2005 | publisher=Nobody | edition= 1st | isbn=978-0-9549405-0-8 }}
• {{Citation | author1=Haworth-Booth, Mark | author2=Kauffer, E. McKnight (Edward McKnight), 1890-1954 | title=E. McKnight Kauffer : a designer and his public | year=1979 | publication-date=1979 | publisher=Gordon Fraser Gallery | isbn=978-0-86092-034-2 }}
• {{Citation | author1=Martin, Paul | author2=Haworth-Booth, Mark | title=A Yarmouth holiday | year=1988 | publication-date=1988 | publisher=Nishen | isbn=978-1-85378-104-9 }}
• {{Citation | author1=Goldblatt, David | author2=Haworth-Booth, Mark | author3=Danelzik-Brüggemann, Christoph | author4=Stevenson, Michael, 1966- | title=David Goldblatt : South African : intersections | year=2005 | publication-date=2005 | publisher=Prestel | isbn=978-3-7913-3247-5 }}
• {{Citation | author1=Haworth-Booth, Mark | author2=Young, Michael | author3=British Press Photographers’ Association | title=Assignments 2 : the British Press Photographers’ Association yearbook | year=1988 | publication-date=1988 | publisher=Phaidon Press | isbn=978-0-7148-2563-2 }}
• {{Citation | author1=Barnes, Martin | author2=Haworth-Booth, Mark | author3=Canon Photography Gallery (Victoria and Albert Museum) | title=Benjamin Brecknell Turner : rural England through a Victorian lens | year=2001 | publication-date=2001 | publisher=V&A Publications | isbn=978-1-85177-335-0 | url=https://archive.org/details/benjaminbrecknel0000barn }}
• {{Citation | author1=Derges, Susan | author2=Haworth-Booth, Mark | author3=Cotton, Charlotte | author4=Fraenkel Gallery | author5=James Danziger Gallery | title=Susan Derges : woman thinking river | year=1999 | publication-date=1999 | publisher=Fraenkel Gallery ; New York : Danziger Gallery | isbn=978-1-881337-06-5 }}
• {{Citation | author1=Haworth-Booth, Mark | author2=Brandt, Bill | author3=Victoria and Albert Museum | title=The Land : twentieth century landscape photographs | year=1975 | publication-date=1975 | publisher=Gordon Fraser Gallery | isbn=978-0-900406-71-3 }}
• {{Citation | author1=Phillips, Sandra S | author2=Haworth-Booth, Mark | author3=Squiers, Carol, 1948- | author4=San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | title=Police pictures : the photograph as evidence | year=1997 | publication-date=1997 | publisher=San Francisco Museum of Modern Art | isbn=978-0-8118-1984-8 }}
• {{Citation | author1=Haworth-Booth, Mark | author2=Victoria and Albert Museum | title=Photography now | year=1989 | publication-date=1989 | publisher=Dirk Nishen in association with the Victoria & Albert Museum | isbn=978-1-85378-012-7 }}
• {{Citation | author1=Haworth-Booth, Mark | author2=Centre national de la photographie (France) | title=The Origins of British photography | year=1991 | publication-date=1991 | publisher=Thames and Hudson | isbn=978-0-500-41082-0 }}
• {{Citation | author1=Brandt, Bill | author2=Haworth-Booth, Mark | title=Literary Britain | year=1951 | publication-date=1986 | publisher=Aperture | edition= New | isbn=978-0-905209-66-1 }}
• {{Citation | author1=Goldblatt, David | author2=Stevenson, Michael, (writer of added commentary.) | author3=Haworth-Booth, Mark, (contributor.) | title=Regarding intersections | year=2014 | publication-date=2014 | publisher=Steidl | edition= First revised Steidl | isbn=978-3-86930-714-5 }}
• {{Citation | author1=Bonnell, Sian | author2=Gooding, Mel | author3=Haworth-Booth, Mark | author4=Ffotogallery | author5=Hirschl Contemporary Art | title=Sian Bonnell : From an Elsewhere Unknown | year=2004 | publication-date=2004 | publisher=Ffotogallery [and] Hirschl Contemporary Art | isbn=978-1-872771-51-9 }}
• {{Citation | author1=Haworth-Booth, Mark | author2=Scherf, Jone Elissa | author3=St. Andrews, George | author4=Frans Halsmuseum | title=Making your dreams come true : young British photography | year=2001 | publication-date=2001 | publisher=Hatje Cantz Verlag | isbn=978-3-7757-1119-7 }}
• {{Citation | author1=Haworth-Booth, Mark | author2=Weston, Edward, 1886-1958 | author3=Hayward Gallery | title=Edward Weston | year=1977 | publication-date=1977 | publisher=Arts Council | isbn=978-0-7287-0126-7 }}
• {{Citation | author1=Dolron, Desiree | author2=Haworth-Booth, Mark | author3=Assouline, Pierre | author4=Institut néerlandais (Paris, France) | title=Desiree Dolron : exaltation, gaze, xteriors | year=2006 | publication-date=2006 | publisher=Éditions Xavier Barral : Institut néerlandais | isbn=978-2-915173-15-4 }}
• {{Citation | author1=Pauli, Lori | author2=Haworth-Booth, Mark | author3=Torosian, Michael, 1952- | author4=Baker, Kenneth, 1946- | author5=Burtynsky, Edward, 1955- | author6=National Gallery of Canada | title=Manufactured landscapes : the photographs of Edward Burtynsky | year=2003 | publication-date=2003 | publisher=National Gallery of Canada in association with Yale University Press | isbn=978-0-300-09943-0 }}
• {{Citation | author1=Cohen, Morton N. (Morton Norton) | author2=Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898 | author3=Flukinger, Roy, 1947- | author4=Haworth-Booth, Mark | author5=Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center | title=Reflections in a looking glass : a centennial celebration of Lewis Carroll, photographer | year=1998 | publication-date=1998 | publisher=Aperture Foundation | edition= 1st | isbn=978-0-89381-796-1 }}
• {{Citation | author1=Chadwick, Helen | author2=Warner, Marina, 1946- | author3=Buck, Louisa | author4=Mellor, David | author5=Haworth-Booth, Mark | author6=Kunsthallen (Brandts klædefabrik) | author7=Portfolio Gallery (Edinburgh, Scotland) | title=Stilled lives : Helen Chadwick | year=1996 | publication-date=1996 | publisher=Portfolio Gallery ; Odense, Denmark : Kunsthallen Brandts klædefabrik | isbn=978-0-9520608-3-3 }}
• {{Citation | author1=Haworth-Booth, Mark | author2=McCauley, Anne | author3=Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute | author4=Victoria and Albert Museum | title=The museum & the photograph : collecting photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1853-1900 | year=1998 | publication-date=1998 | publisher=Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute | isbn=978-0-931102-40-0 }}
• {{Citation | author1=Hockney, David | author2=Hockney, David | author3=Haworth-Booth, Mark | author4=Arts Council of Great Britain | author5=Hayward Gallery | title=Hockney’s photographs | year=1983 | publication-date=1983 | publisher=Arts Council of Great Britain | isbn=978-0-7287-0382-7 }}
• {{Citation | author1=Hoppé, E. O. (Emil Otto) | author2=Haworth-Booth, Mark | author3=Michael Hoppen Photography (Gallery) | title=Hoppé’s London | year=2006 | publication-date=2006 | publisher=Guiding Light | edition= Limited | isbn=978-0-9551863-0-1 }}
• {{Citation | author1=Bohm, Dorothy | author2=Haworth-Booth, Mark | author3=Bohm-Duchen, Monica | author4=Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain | title=Walls and windows | year=1998 | publication-date=1998 | publisher=Lund Humphries | isbn=978-0-85331-718-0 }}
• {{Citation | author1=Bradford, Richard | author2=Haworth-Booth, Mark, (writer of foreword.) | title=The importance of elsewhere : Philip Larkin’s photographs | date=26 October 2015 | publication-date=2015 | publisher=Frances Lincoln Limited | isbn=978-0-7112-3631-8 }}
• {{Citation | author1=Davidson, Bruce | title=England/ Scotland, 1960 | year=2005 | publication-date=2005 | publisher=Steidl ; London : Thames & Hudson [distributor] | edition=1st | isbn=978-3-86521-127-9 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/englandscotland10000davi }}
• {{Citation | author1=Brandt, Bill | title=Ombre de lumière : photographies | publication-date=1977 | publisher=Chêne | url=https://trove.nla.gov.au/work/34833447 | access-date=12 February 2019 }}

With essays by

• {{Citation | author1=Bush, Andrew | title=Bonnettstown | year=1989 | publication-date=1989 | publisher=H.N. Abrams | isbn=978-0-8109-0748-5 }}
• {{Citation | author1=Jack, Ian | title=On the road again : where travel writing went next | year=2006 | publication-date=2006 | publisher=Granta Publications | isbn=978-0-903141-86-4 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/grantavolume9400ianj }} (Essay: Homage to mount desert island : a small resort, but there’s so much to do)
• {{Citation | author1=Weaver, Mike | title=British photography in the nineteenth century : the fine art tradition | date=25 August 1989 | publication-date=1989 | publisher=Cambridge University Press | isbn=978-0-521-34119-6 | url-access=registration | url=https://archive.org/details/britishphotograp0000unse_w5z8 }} (Essay: Benjamin Brecknell Turner : Photographic views from nature)
• {{Citation | author1=Weinberg, Adam D | author2=Gilman, Sondra | author3=Wiggins, Marianne | author4=Roalf, Peggy | author5=Moore, Marianne, 1887-1972. When I buy pictures | author6=Art Museum of South Texas | author7=Patrick and Beatrice Haggerty Museum of Art | author8=Hood Museum of Art | title=From the heart : the power of photography, a collector’s choice | year=1998 | publication-date=1998 | publisher=Art Museum of South Texas ; [New York, N.Y.] : Aperture | edition= 1st | isbn=978-0-89381-809-8 }} (Preface)
• {{Citation | author1=Baltz, Lewis | author2=Turrell, Julia Brown | author3=Heiferman, Marvin | author4=Des Moines Art Center | title=Rule without exception | year=1990 | publication-date=1990 | publisher=University of New Mexico Press in association with the Des Moines Art Center | isbn=978-0-8263-1269-3 }} (Essay: San Quentin Point)
• {{Citation | author1=Newhall, Beaumont, 1908-1993 | author2=Walch, Peter (Peter S.), 1940- | author3=Barrow, Thomas F | title=Perspectives on photography : essays in honor of Beaumont Newhall | year=1986 | publication-date=1986 | publisher=University of New Mexico Press | edition= 1st | isbn=978-0-8263-0863-4 }} (Essay: A Connoisseur of the art of photography in the 1850s: The Rev. C. H. Townsend)
• {{Citation | author1=Benton, Charlotte | author2=Benton, Tim, 1945- | author3=Wood, Ghislaine | author4=Victoria and Albert Museum | title=Art deco 1910-1939 | year=2003 | publication-date=2005 | publisher=V&A | isbn=978-1-85177-388-6 }} (Essay: Photography and the new vision)
• {{Citation | author1=Aynsley, Jeremy | author2=Atkinson, Harriet | author3=Design History Society | title=The Banham lectures : essays on designing the future | date=November 2009 | publication-date=2009 | publisher=Berg | edition= English | isbn=978-1-84788-302-5 }} (Essay: Reyner Banham and photography)
• {{Citation | author1=Bann, Stephen | author2=Center for Advanced Study in the Visual Arts (U.S.) | author3=National Gallery of Art (U.S.) | title=Art and the early photographic album | year=2011 | publication-date=2011 | publisher=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)
• {{Citation | title=Alpine journal (v. 114 | date=10 March 2010 | publication-date=2010 | publisher=Ernest press | isbn=978-0-948153-94-5 }} (Essay: The Return of Vittorio Sella)
• {{Citation | author1=Hoozee, Robert | author2=Museum voor Schone Kunsten (Ghent, Belgium) | title=British vision : observation and imagination in British art, 1750-1950 | year=2007 | publication-date=2007 | publisher=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)WEB, 2020-06-28, Mark Haworth-Booth - National Portrait Gallery,www.npg.org.uk/collections/search/person/mp68566/mark-haworth-booth, www.npg.org.uk,

See also

• Adrian Hardy Haworth

Arms

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References

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External links

• {{Official website|www.markhaworthbooth.com}}

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