John Blakemore (born 1936), is an English photographer who has worked in documentary, landscape, still life and hand made books.
He has been the recipient of Arts Council awards, a British Council Travelling Exhibition and in 1992 won the Fox Talbot Award for Photography. He was made an Honorary Fellow of the Royal Photographic Society in 1998.
Table of Contents
- 1 Life and work
- 1.1 John Blakemores Black & White Photography Workshop
- 1.2 Charlie Rose with Jane Arraf, Romesh Ratnesar & John Burns; Bill Blakemore, Freeman Hrabowski & Anthony Marx; Bill Carter & Doug Ellin (June 7, 2006)
- 1.3 Bob Bondurant on High Performance Driving
- 1.4 Who's Lucky Now?
- 1.5 Blakemore Road Runner Bleeding 1/16-Ounce Bait (Red)
- 1.6 Coltrane '58: Prestige Recordings [5 CD]
- 1.7 Old John Deere
- 1.8 The Teacher and the Teenage Brain
- 1.9 Blakemore TTI Fishing Co Road Runner Bulk Head Hook (Chartreuse, 1/32-Ounce)
- 1.10 WWE Cena HLR Signature T-Shirt
Life and work
Blakemore was born in Coventry. He discovered photography during National Service like the Royal Air Force in Tripoli in the 1950s and is self-taught. Wartime childhood experiences and Edward Steichen’s The Family of Man exhibition inspired him initially upon his return home to photograph the people of Coventry and its post-war reconstruction as a freelance, working first for the Black Star photo agency, and later in a variety of studios including Courtaulds of Coventry where he was initially employed as a black and white printer previously being promoted to a photographer’s position. Blakemore left the company and Coventry in 1968. In the upfront 1970s Blakemore allied his buddy Richard Saddler as a lecturer at Derby College of Art. He vanguard became Emeritus Professor of Photography at the University of Derby, where he taught from 1970 to 2001, being influential upon the younger generation.
Blakemore worked in black-and-white upon landscape subjects, making use of the Zone System and much darkroom work upon his prints. He has with worked in yet life, including a series upon tulips.
Since 2010 a large ration of Blakemore’s archive has been held at the Library of Birmingham, in particular:
Last update 2021-08-06