Thanks to a most generous grant from the Friends of the National Libraries’ B. H. Breslauer Fund, the Library has recently been able to acquire a beautiful copy of one of the most famous nineteenth-century…
The next of our Visiting Scholar 2018 reports is from José Luís Neves, Lecturer in Photography at Ulster University. In this report José shares with us his highlights from this summer’s visit to St Andrews – one of the…
Back in March, we announced the names of this year’s University Library Special Collections Visiting Scholars. We have enjoyed getting to know the first of them over the last few weeks. From this coming Monday, our…
Mark Neville (b. 1966) is a photographer known for his multi-layered social documentary projects. I first came across Neville’s work when visiting the Scottish Parliament where I saw his large format photograph ‘Annie…
This past Monday morning was a sad morning. It was the last Monday morning in a series of Monday mornings that I’ve been spending inside the headspace of Martin Parr. Starting the week by spending some quality time…
For this week’s Historical How-To post, we’re turning our eyes (and our lens!) to the 20th century for some inspirational portrait photography! We’re going to take a backward glance at the craft of photography to when…
If you’ve been keeping your eye on the catalogue, you might have noticed that the new Photographic Books Collection is starting to grow. Most of this is due to the efforts of our summer intern, Krista Keller, who has…