Mostrar 38 resultados

Glass plate negatives, lantern slides and prints for photographs taken by Walter Doughty during the first 24 years of his Manchester Guardian career.

Administrative/Biographical history: Walter Doughty was born on the 22 August 1876 in Stalybridge. Doughty joined the Manchester Guardian in 1908 as the paper's first staff photographer and continued to work occasionally for the paper and the Manchester Evening News after his retirement in 1949. He was an innovative photojournalist; he was the first newspaperman to photograph the city of Manchester from the air in 1919 when the Manchester Corporation opened its first municipal aerodrome. It is also believed he covered the civil war in Ireland for the paper in 1922 with a camera he either made himself, or had custom built for his use. Part of his obituary from The Guardian, 29 May 1958, reads 'In the files of the office his pictures throughout the Edwardian and Georgian eras would make a fine illustrated history of the North of England from the last 50 years', making him the first in a strong line of Manchester-based Guardian photographers who would continue in this tradition, amongst them Tom Stuttard, Robert Smithies, Don McPhee and Denis Thorpe. He died at his Alderley Edge home on 27 March 1958.

Series of glass plate negatives taken by Walter Doughty for the Manchester Guardian/Manchester Evening News during the Irish Civil War (1920-22).

Doughty was sent to Cork in the autumn of 1920, and later to Dublin during the Irish civil war (1922-23) with his self-built camera and recorded the scenes on 3.5 x 4" and 4 x 5" glass negatives. The first known date of publication is 1 November 1920 when the paper ran two large images of Doughty's depicting scenes following the return of the body of the Lord Mayor of Cork to the City. Although the paper's first reports in 1922 used news agency prints from 'LNA' (London News Agency) and 'Sports and General' as illustrations, ten photographs by Doughty were published the following week between June 30 and July 7, 1922, a further photograph depicting a man looking out of a shattered window pane (WHD/1/1) appeared on July 8 in the Manchester Evening News. With the exception of these three images from Cork, none of this published material remains in the collection, but it is apparent that most photographs were taken from the same view, and in some cases moments after those which appeared in the paper. This suggests that Doughty is photographer for both published images, and those in this collection. It is likely that he was together at certain times with other agency photographers at the recording of many of these events. In 2001 the magazine 'History Ireland' reproduced nine of the images. They were later reproduced in the Guardian Newsroom publication, and featured in the accompanying show of the same name 'Hidden History' (August 2005) and again in 2007 in a Guardian 'Archive' supplement feature on Guardian photographers by Eamonn McCabe. Although it has not been proven that Doughty is the photographer of all this work, it is most likely that he was, given that he was the only staff photographer at the Manchester Guardian at the time and that Doughty's daughter owns a vintage print from the series in the same hand as other Doughty print captions.

4 x 5" glass negatives

3.5 x 4.5" glass negatives and 1 vintage contact print