Mark Haworth-Booth

Mark Haworth-Booth OBE HonFRPS (born 20 August 1944) served as a curator at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London, from 1970 to 2004.[1]

Life and career

Haworth-Booth was educated at Brighton College before going to Clare College, Cambridge and afterwards the University of Edinburgh. He curated the exhibitions Photography: An Independent Art (1997),[2] and Things: A Spectrum of Photography, 1850-2001 (2004).[1] His last photography exhibition was held at the National Portrait Gallery, London and titled Camille Silvy. Photographer of Modern Life 1834-1910.[3]

Haworth-Booth studied English literature at Cambridge University and art history at Edinburgh University. He served as a curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum from 1970 to 2004 and, as senior curator of photographs, helped to build up its collection of photography.

Haworth-Booth is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) and a Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Art. He has curated many exhibitions and acted as a consultant on the BBC television series The Genius of Photography, aired in 2007 and again in 2009. He curated, with the Jeu de Paume in Paris and the National Portrait Gallery in London, a centenary retrospective of the pioneering photographer Camille Silvy (1834-1910), shown at the National Portrait Gallery, London, in 2010.

Haworth-Booth researched the Silvy Exhibition catalogue at the J. Paul Getty Museum as a Museum Scholar in 2008. Published in the UK, with French and US editions, he wrote the introduction to Tessa Traeger's Voices of the Vivarais, published in 2010 with an exhibition at Purdy Hicks Gallery in London.

Haworth-Booth served as the first Visiting Professor of Photography at the University of the Arts London (2002–09). He was awarded the Royal Photographic Society's Hood Medal in 1987,[4] an honorary fellowship in 1996/7[5] and its Fenton Medal in 2006.[6]

Haworth-Booth was appointed OBE for his "services to museums" in 2005 and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Arts degree by the University of the Arts London in 2012. He lives with his wife Rosie, whom he married 1979 in North Devon. They have two daughters.

Arms

Arms of Mark Haworth-Booth
Crest
(1) A Figure representing St Catherine robed and crowned as a Queen kneeling affrontée in the dexter hand a Catherine Wheel in the sinister hand a Sword supported the point downwards all Proper (for BOOTH(ancient));
(2) A Stag’s Head Gules attired Or gorged with a Collar of Roses Argent (for HAWORTH).
Escutcheon
Quarterly, 1st and 4th, Argent three Boars’ Heads erect and erased Sable (for BOOTH);
2nd and 3rd, Azure on a bend between two Stags’ Heads couped Or a Long-bow of the Field (for HAWORTH).
Motto
Quod ero spero ("What I hope, I shall be")

References

  1. 1 2 Things: A Spectrum of Photography, 1850-2001 (London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 2004)
  2. ↑ Mark Haworth-Booth (ed.) Photography: An Independent Art (London: Victoria & Albert Museum, 1997)
  3. ↑ http://www.npg.org.uk/index.php?id=5754.
  4. ↑ http://www.rps.org/annual-awards/Hood-Medal
  5. ↑ http://www.rps.org/annual-awards/Honorary-Fellowships
  6. ↑ http://www.rps.org/annual-awards/Fenton-Medal

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