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  Fay Godwin - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Godwin was born in Berlin, Germany, the daughter of a British diplomat and an American artist.
Godwin had exhibitions which have toured Britain, her last major retrospective was at the Barbican Centre, London in 2001.
Godwin died in Hastings at the age of 74.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Fay_Godwin   (444 words)

  
 Fay Godwin Homepage
Fay's childhood was peripatetic, and she attended nine different schools before embarking on a career as a travel rep. In the 1950s she settled in London, and worked for a time in publishing, before marrying Anthony Godwin, the editor-in-chief of Penguin books, in 1961.
Fay Godwin was passionate about photography, about the students she taught at photographers' workshops, the environment, the position of women in society, health issues and her home on the bleak Romney marshes of Kent.
Godwin was fascinated by the antiquity of the land, by the traces which men and women had left behind them, manifested, in her early projects, by ancient roadways across the countryside.
www.djclark.com /godwin/obit.htm   (4728 words)

  
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Godwin was known for her images of the British countryside as well as portraits of authors such as Ted Hughes and Doris Lessing.
"Fay Godwin's photographs were about the real world and real people, but imaginatively transformed and enhanced by a sensitive, perceptive and often ironic and critical eye," Prof Hill said.
Godwin won a string of prestigious awards for her work after becoming interested in photography while taking photos of her children.
www.mygodwins.com /20608.html?*session*id*key*=*session*id*val*   (280 words)

  
 Fay Godwin remembered
Godwin was the direct successor of these artists and photographers, and her work was in many ways the culmination of the efforts of Smith, van Wadenoyen and Moore.
Some years ago I had a conversation with Fay Godwin on the subject of influences, she having noticed some similarities between two sets of pictures we had taken independently at the same time and in the same area of North East Fife.
Fay Godwin leaves a void, the only other photographer of note working in this area is John Davies but his main body of work in Industrial Landscapes is now several years old.
www.scottish-photographers.com /faygodwinremembe.html   (1150 words)

  
 Fay Godwin | Obituaries | Guardian Unlimited
Fay Godwin, who has died aged 74, was an outstanding landscape photographer, in line of succession to Edwin Smith, Bill Brandt and Ray Moore.
During the 1950s, she had severely damaged a knee in a skiing accident, and that was always a hindrance, although not one which she let stand in her way, for she became president of the Ramblers' Association during the late 1980s.
It is an emblematic picture, and a pointer to the kind of imagery that would increasingly preoccupy Fay during the later, more radical, phase of her photography.
www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,,1495728,00.html   (1125 words)

  
 fay godwin
Godwin was self-taught, her interest developed during the 1960s through taking pictures of her young family.
Godwin's own view was: ‘Because in a dreary British way, I had been pigeon-holed as a fl and white photographer and at my age it was not permissible to move on.’ However, in 2001 Godwin was honoured with a major retrospective, "Landmarks" at the Barbican Centre, in London.
Her continuing observations of the landscape, albeit from a different angle, show that Godwin’s colour work is every bit as carefully considered, and important as the fl and white images that previously gained her popular and critical acclaim.
www.ipgbattle.com /godwin_tn.html   (596 words)

  
 Telegraph | Entertainment
This articulation has been the trademark quality of a Fay Godwin photograph for many years, more so, I feel than the clouds and horizons by which her pictures are easily recognised from a distance.
Godwin at least finds a compromise and an accommodation in her portraits of Lake District farmers, where man and nature achieve a kind of harmony.
Fay Godwin has located the essence of his remark in pictures of people whose ancestors might well have crossed paths with the famous poet, and has captured the collective good implied by such a word, and redefined it as a term through these legible and communicative photographs.
www.telegraph.co.uk /arts/main.jhtml?xml=/arts/2001/06/23/bapoet23.xml   (1305 words)

  
 Fay Godwin: Landmarks & Terrain: Landscapes of the Great War by Peter Cattrell
Fay Godwin has been taking photographs for over 30 years, and is best known for her dramatic and politically-charged landscapes, many of which depict the Highlands and Islands of Scotland.
Godwin loves it when the meaning of signs is changed by their context, and she has captured one Bradford wall whose topmost billboard advertises “Pension plans that grow with you”, with a hoarding underneath warning “AIDS: don’t die of ignorance”.
The stones at Callanish are gnarled in a stark white light against a pitch-fl sky, the silhouette of a ruined house in Yorkshire seems to project a shadow upwards to the heavens, and the rolling hills at Durisdeer are sculpted by the movement of the sun.
www.artandphilosophy.com /031026.html   (535 words)

  
 Guardian | Fay Godwin
Fay's rendering was more lyrical, but a lot of the evidence in the pictures points to mediocre development and careless desecration.
Fay's entry into art proper came with Remains Of Elmet: A Pennine Sequence (Faber and Faber, 1979) with poems by Ted Hughes.
It fostered the industrial revolution in textiles, but, by the 1970s, when Fay went there, it had decayed to the point of looking like a figure for the end of the world.
www.guardian.co.uk /print/0,3858,5204855-103684,00.html   (1125 words)

  
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 British Council
Fay Godwin was born in Berlin and spent the early part of her life abroad, travelling with diplomatic parents.
Godwin became interested in making a book which described a walk easily accessible from her home in London; the result was a study of the Ridgeway, the ancient track that runs from the prehistoric monuments of Avebury to the Thames Valley.
Godwin's early work was often discussed in the context of a then resurgence of landscape photography in Britain, but her approach was distinct from that of other photographers in this field.
collection.britishcouncil.org /html/artist/artist.aspx?id=18161   (316 words)

  
 The Photographers' Gallery | E~H | Fay Godwin
Fay Godwin (1931-2005) was best known for her fl and white studies of the British landscape, created with a keen eye, amazing sensitivity and an enduring respect for the land in which she worked.
Fay was also an accomplished portraitist who created warm and intimate images of members of the literary community.
Fay was born in Berlin to a British diplomat father and American painter mother and her youth was spent in various different parts of the world.
www.photonet.org.uk /index.php?id=102,333,0,0,1,0   (279 words)

  
 Godwin Pumps
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Godwin's law is named after Mike Godwin, who was legal counsel for the Electronic Frontier Foundation in the early 1990s, when the law was first popularized.
Born at Wisbech in Cambridgeshire, Godwin's family on both sides were middle-class people, and it was probably only as a joke that he, a stern political reformer and philosophical radical, attempted to trace his pedigree to a time before the Norman Conquest to the great earl, Godwine.
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 Quiraing Lodge
Fay will share her commitment, artistry, skills and experience with all participants in what may become, for some, a life-changing event.
Fay will talk about much of her work from her days of PR portrait photography, through her most known work, the landscapes she is renowned for, through to more recent less known intimate colour work including her current digital colour work.
Fay will have with her many of her books and also a wide selection of her fine prints, including both old favourites and less known newer work both books and prints may be bought, many at prices only available on a workshop!
www.portmanteau.co.uk /quiraing/pages/biographies/fay_godwin.asp   (456 words)

  
 Fay Godwin news - Amateur Photographer - The world's number one weekly photography magazine   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Fay Godwin, one of Britain's best-known landscape photographers, has died aged 74.
Godwin — who was born in Berlin in 1931- was a former president of the Ramblers' Association (1987-90) and held a series of awards including an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society.
Godwin died on 27 May after suffering a stroke and had been in hospital since Easter.
www.amateurphotographer.com /news/Fay_Godwin_news_64479.html   (266 words)

  
 Fay Godwin
Fay Godwin is known internationally for landscape and portrait work and, in particular, for her bestselling landscape collection Land,
Godwin was President of The Ramblers’ Association from 1987-90.
Godwin will share the wealth of her experience in preparing photographs for exhibition and publication (including self publishing) along with her love and concern for the British landscape.
www.duckspool.com /duckspool/tutors/fay_godwin/fay_godwin.htm   (554 words)

  
 Ramblers Association - News - latest news
Fay Godwin, former President of the Ramblers' Association, has died
Fay Godwin, former President of the Ramblers’ Association and one of Britain’s most talented landscape photographers, has died.
Fay was born in Berlin and after a brief dalliance in publishing began her photography career in 1969.
www.ramblers.org.uk /news/archive/2005/faygodwin.html   (206 words)

  
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 British Journal of Photography - The landscape has changed
Fay Godwin, one of the foremost landscape photographers in Britain has passed away.
Fay Godwin, who died on 27 May aged 74, was a tireless environmental campaigner in her life and work.
The daughter of a British diplomat and an American artist, Godwin was born in Berlin and had a peripatetic childhood abroad, before settling in London in the 1950s and marrying publisher Anthony Godwin in 1961.
www.bjp-online.com /public/showPage.html?page=282601   (584 words)

  
 EDITOR-AT-LARGE: Janet Street-Porter Independent, The (London) - Find Articles   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Godwin is a tiny, bird-like woman who has humped her equipment to the remotest places and recorded them in a way which demonstrates that, one day, all traces of man will somehow be eradicated.
From the bleakness of Shetland to Kent beaches, the Scilly Isles to Cumbria, Fay has spent her life looking carefully at our landscape and drawing our attention to how unique it is. As a relatively recent resident of the north Kentish coast, I have been walking the Saxon Shore way each week.
Fay did this in 1983 and made a book of it with the writer Alan Sillitoe.
www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20010729/ai_n14402803   (1011 words)

  
 Fay Godwin
Fay Godwin is known internationally for landscape and portrait work and, in particular, for her bestselling landscape collection Land, and also for, Our Forbidden Land, a hard hitting environmental polemic with 30,000 words of her own text.
The Edge of the Land was published in 1995, and explored several areas of the British coastline and changing populations with photographs and her own interviews.
Godwin was President of The Ramblers’ Association from 187-90.
www.cfje.dk /cfje/links.nsf/Personbeskrivelser/personID/FN003639   (258 words)

  
 National Galleries of Scotland | Online Collections » Artist Search » The Trough Area at Chivas' Keith Bond ...
Godwin likes to hint at past events in contemporary scenes - in this case the 'dumping' of malts into troughs for fermentation.
Fay Godwin first became interested in photography in the mid-1960s as a result of taking pictures of her young children.
But, as a socialist and active environmentalist, Godwin makes the land in her photographs reveal traces of its history, through mankind's occupation and and intervention.
www.natgalscot.ac.uk /collections/artist_search.php?objectId=58001   (215 words)

  
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 FAY GODWIN - LANDMARKS - DEWI LEWIS PUBLISHING
Landmarks is a glorious celebration of the work of Fay Godwin, one of the UK’s most respected and influential photographers.
Drawing on the whole body of her photographic practice of the last thirty years, it includes literary portraits, humorous snapshots, and rural and urban landscapes, as well as the intimate series of colour images, Glassworks, that marks the most recent evolution of her vision.
Fay Godwin is the author, or co-author, of seventeen books, including Remains of Elmet, with poems by Ted Hughes (1979, new edition published as Elmet, 1994); and the Land trilogy, Land, (1985); Our forbidden land, (1990); and The Edge of the Land, (1995).
www.dewilewispublishing.com /PHOTOGRAPHY/GODWIN.html   (221 words)

  
 Welcome to the Forest of Dean Sculpture Trail   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
Fay Godwin's work is in public and private collections worldwide, including the National Museum of Photography, Bradford; the British Council; the National Portrait Gallery, London; the British Library, London; the National Portrait Gallery of Scotland; the Victoria and Albert Museum, London; the Stanford Museum of Art and other museums in USA.
She was the first photographer to have a full-length feature on the South Bank TV Arts Show; to have work purchased by the Contemporary Arts Society; to exhibit with the British Council's Fine Art Department, and at the Yale Center for British Art.
Fay Godwin joined Network Photographers, photographic agency, in 1991, and Collections in 1994.
www.forestofdean-sculpture.org.uk /godwin.html   (464 words)

  
 National Galleries of Scotland   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
This retrospective exhibition of Fay Godwin’s photographs shows nearly 40 years of work starting with her first portraits.
Godwin is best known for her landscape photographs: lyrical images of beautiful scenery in changing atmospheres, sometimes presented directly, sometimes showing the effects of human misuse.
Fay Godwin will give a lecture on her work at Edinburgh College of Art (main lecture theatre), Lauriston Place, 11 October at 3.30pm.
natgalscot.ac.uk /html/3-exhibitions/Exhibitions474.asp?...&status=past   (188 words)

  
 No Man's Land - Fay Godwin's last interview
The 73-year old photographer is not in the best of health these days, and while mentally she’s still as sharp as the photographs that made her famous, her ailing heart leaves her with little energy for taking photographs.
Godwin’s fl and white landscapes were, and indeed still are, haunting and brooding in the main.
When Godwin sold her darkroom recently, it was the end of an era.
www.ephotozine.com /articles/viewarticle.cfm?id=69   (2127 words)

  
 Exhibitions  -  2003
This year's lecture by Fay Godwin coincides with a retrospective exhibition of her work being shown at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Queen Street, Edinburgh.
Fay worked hard to promote the work of the Ramblers' Association, of which she became President.
Fay showed many monochrome photos and some of her more recent work in colour.
www.edinphoto.org.uk /10/12_exhibitions_-_2003.htm   (1136 words)

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