| DANIEL MEADOWS | Now & Then |
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| Daniel Meadows is probably best known for his travelling
photo studio in a converted double-decker bus: The Free Photographic Omnibus.
The work he produced from it in the early 1970s was (and remains) the only
solo attempt ever made at a national photographic portrait of the ordinary
people of England.
Through his subsequent career Meadows has been a photographer and a teacher of photographers. His work has been widely published and exhibited in one-man shows: at the ICA (London) 1975; Photographers' Gallery (London) 1987; Royal Photographic Society (Bath) 1996. In 1998 it was screened in the Theatre Antique at the Rencontres d'Arles International Festival of Photography, France. |
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| Meadows worked throughout the 1980s with Magnum photographer
David Hurn, teaching documentary photography at Newport's School of Art and
Design. In 1994, he moved to Cardiff University's Centre for Journalism Studies
to set up a postgraduate programme in photojournalism.
Meadows has also had a career as a stillsman in the film industry. His photographs are collected in three books including 'Set Pieces - being about film stills mostly' (BFI publications 1993). He has also written and presented radio programmes (BBC R4) and televison documentaries (Granada TV). |
His latest book 'National Portraits - photographs from the
1970s', contains a fresh edit by Val Williams of the portraits in the Free
Photographic Omnibus archive.
It is distributed by Cornerhouse Publications (contact Alison Crosby, Head of Publications, at Cornerhouse Publications, 70 Oxford Street, Manchester M1 5NH,England. Tel 0161 200 1502 / fax 0161 200 1504. International Tel 00 44 161 200 1502 / international fax 00 44 161 200 1504. E-mail publications@cornerhouse.org). The exhibition 'National Portraits' is toured by Viewpoint Gallery, Salford and was shown at the National Museum of Photography, Film & TV in Bradford in 1997. |
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