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	Humphrey Spender - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Humphrey Spender, (April 19, 1910 – March 11, 2005), was a photographer, painter, architect, designer and mural painter.
		The brother of the poet Stephen Spender, and like him educated at Gresham's School, he initially studied architecture before training as a photographer.
		Spender became a member of the Mass Observation movement, taking photos of daily life in working class communities.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Humphrey_Spender (189 words)

	Guardian Unlimited \| Obituaries \| Humphrey Spender (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		In later years, the photographer and artist Humphrey Spender, who has died aged 94, concluded "that the most valid and proper use of a camera is as a means of recording aspects of human behaviour; as time passes, social-documentary photographs gain in interest, whereas the 'beautiful' photograph...
		Humphrey had a phenomenal eye and memory for detail, including such items as "the carefully polished and chromium-plated component parts of a Hoover on the mantel of a pristine front parlour", or "the textural contrast of whitened paving stones before the houses against the cobbles of the street.
		Humphrey's ranks of the cloth-capped unemployed - hats, including women's hatpins, were among his favourite markers of class and style - and women stringing washing across backstreets incorporated the jobless and unpaid into the working class.
	www.guardian.co.uk /obituaries/story/0,,1437719,00.html (953 words)

	Humphrey Spender; photographed British prewar poverty; 94 \| The San Diego Union-Tribune
		Humphrey Spender, a prominent English artist known for his photographs documenting the lives of ordinary Britons in the bleakest years of the Depression, died March 11 at his home in Ulting, Essex.
		John Humphrey Spender was born in London on April 19, 1910, the youngest of four children of Harold Spender, a Liberal journalist and politician.
		Spender disliked the name John and never used it.) As a young man, he studied art history at the University of Freiburg, and the influence of the New Objectivity, the artistic movement of Weimar-era Germany, which emphasized realism, industrialism and a stark approach to its subjects, is clearly evident in his photographs.
	www.signonsandiego.com /uniontrib/20050407/news_1m7spender.html (752 words)

	Telegraph \| News \| Humphrey Spender
		Humphrey Spender, the artist and younger brother of the poet Stephen Spender who died on Friday aged 94, was best known for his photographs of life in working class Britain from the Depression through to the 1950s, first for the archive Mass-Observation and then for Picture Post.
		Humphrey Spender was born in Hampstead on April 19 1910, the son of Edward Spender, a noted Liberal and man of letters who founded the Boys' Club movement with Arnold Toynbee.
		Spender learned the rudiments of photography from his older brother Michael, a gifted amateur, but it was a present of a magnificent German camera when he was 10 which proved his inspiration.
	www.telegraph.co.uk /news/main.jhtml?xml=/news/2005/03/15/db1501.xml&sSheet=/portal/2005/03/15/ixportal.html (942 words)

	Obituary: Humphrey Spender Independent, The (London) - Find Articles
		HUMPHREY SPENDER will be remembered as one of the leading photojournalists of the 1930s, but he was also an award-winning textile designer and a prolific and idiosyncratic painter.
		A year later, Humphrey was used by the artist R.H. Sauter as the model for Jon (the son of Young Jolyon Forsyte) in the numerous illustrations for John Galsworthy's Awakening (1920).
		Spender spent much of the 1930s travelling in Europe, witnessing the political upheavals of the period, often in the company of Stephen Spender and Christopher Isherwood, whom he notably photographed in Berlin and on Rugen Island, as well as in Portugal and Amsterdam.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qn4158/is_20050314/ai_n12943148 (965 words)

	Past Exhibitions
		Humphrey Spender began his career as a professional photojournalist providing images of a pastoral England for the Daily Mirror, while concentrating his creative and intellectual energies on the more challenging subject matter of Britain's large industrial cities.
		Spender's growing commitment to the sociological study of the British people led to his involvement with Mass-Observation, for which he was the photographer in the years 1937-38, capturing significant moments in the flow of life in pubs, parks, markets, factories, offices, and locker rooms.
		The inclusion of paintings and drawings by contemporaries and colleagues such as Humphrey Jennings, William Coldstream, and Graham Bell situate Spender's photography within the broader context of British art and the documentary movement in the thirties.
	www.yale.edu /ycba/exhibitions/past/spender/humphreyspender.htm (402 words)

	Spender's Worktown - Humphrey Spender (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Humphrey Spender was a pioneer of the documentary photography style that suited the Mass-Observation methods of gathering information.
		Spender joined the Mass-Observation team in 1937 taking his first photographs of Bolton in the Spring.
		Spender continued painting until his death in 2005.
	www.boltonmuseums.org.uk /HTML/spender/history_humphrey_spender.html (216 words)

	Yale Bulletin & Calendar - News Stories
		Humphrey Spender is credited with merging individual drama with broader social concerns in his photographs, which were instrumental in the early rise of the British documentary movement.
		Spender became a photojournalist for the new illustrated weekly magazine Picture Post, a magazine that has been credited with helping to establish modern British journalism and shaping the new social consciousness and radicalism of the war years.
		Spender continued to deepen and refine his art as a photographer and his understanding as an observer of human relations, according to Deborah Frizzell, an independent curator who helped organize the exhibit and who conducted a series of in-depth interviews with Mr.
	www.yale.edu /opa/ybc/v26.n3.news.13.html (786 words)

	Woodhorn Archive: Humphrey Spender
		Humphrey Spender was born in 1910 and is a photographer, painter, architect, designer and mural painter.
		Spender travelled to Ashington in 1934 and we have included a small selection of his photos from this trip.
		The Humphrey Spender images are reproduced courtesy of Bolton Museum & Art Gallery, Bolton MBC, and are held in their Fine Art collection.
	www.pastperfect.info /sites/woodhorn/archive/humphrey.html (154 words)

	Books \| View from the street
		Spender took the shot in the years 1937-38, when he went to Bolton on behalf of Mass Observation, the "fact-finding body" set up by Charles Madge, Humphrey Jennings and Tom Harrisson to document the lives of ordinary British people.
		Spender himself believed that "a photo can never arrive at the same level of creative intelligence as a great painting".
		Spender used the same metaphor about his experiences in Bolton: "I had to be an invisible spy." Wearing avoids any sense of voyeurism by making both subject and audience aware of her camera.
	books.guardian.co.uk /print/0,,5373071-110738,00.html (1679 words)

	National Portrait Gallery \| What's on? \| In Close Up: Humphrey Spender (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Humphrey Spender was born in London in 1910.
		One of three sons of Harold Spender, a journalist and biographer of Lloyd George.
		Humphrey Spender is still producing work in a range of media from his studio-home in Essex, commissioned in 1968 from the architect Richard Rogers.
	www.npg.org.uk /live/spender.asp (242 words)

	'Humanist Landscapes' of class, culture, art \| Sept 19, 1997
		Spender repeatedly turned to recreational environments for his images, most notably the pier and carnival at Blackpool.
		When Spender noses his lens into a smaller segment of the urban landscape, he does so to reinforce the internalized nature of these people's world.
		It is an act of cleaning up appearances which Spender does not quite collude with; he captures these women engaged in their labor, rather than the sparkling aftermath.
	www.yaleherald.com /archive/xxiv/9.19.97/ae/humanist.html (841 words)

	The Photographers' Gallery \| 2005 \| Humphrey Spender
		British photographer Humphrey Spender's (born 1910) Moroccan Diary is a series of photographs, taken during a six-week commission to Morocco in 1936.
		Humphrey Spender was born in London and currently lives in Essex.
		During World War II Humphrey Spender was appointed Official War Photographer, but afterwards gradually moved from photography to concentrate on other interests.
	www.photonet.org.uk /index.php?id=67,210,0,0,1,0 (195 words)

	Bolton Museums, Art gallery and Aquarium - Mass-Observation: Humphrey Spender (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Humphrey Spender is a photographer, painter, architect, designer and mural painter.
		Spender is the most celebrated photographer to have worked in Bolton and Blackpool for Mass-Observation in 1937-38.
		Humphrey Spender's photography can be viewed on the Spender's Worktown pages.
	www.boltonmuseums.org.uk /html/art_observation_spender.asp (79 words)

	SSMT-archive (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The archive programme is overseen by Professor John Sutherland, Lord Northcliffe Professor of English at University College London, who is Stephen Spender's authorised biographer, and by Professor Warwick Gould, Director of the Institute of English Studies at the University of London.
		The Stephen Spender Memorial Trust plans a long-term, multi-phase programme of acquisition and curatorship of primary materials relative to Stephen Spender, his circle, and the cultural milieu over the whole period (effectively 1928-95) in which he lived and wrote.
		Stephen Spender, over the long course of his adult life, was more than merely a major British poet and unusually accomplished man of letters (although he was both these things).
	www.stephen-spender.org /SSMTrust/ssmt_archive.htm (372 words)

	news
		Humphrey Spender, photographer, artist and friend of Redeye died on 11th March 2005 after a short illness.
		For many years one of the most respected and influential figures of British photography, Humphrey Spender pioneered the "unobserved observer" style of 35mm documentary photography in this country, and particularly the North West, with work for Picture Post, Mass Observation, The Mirror and the War Office in the 1930s and 40s.
		Perhaps his best-known photographic work was made in Bolton in the 1930s for Mass Observation; this portrait of pre-war "worktown" was unparalleled in its sensitivity and humanity as a documentary record.
	www.redeye.org.uk /redeye/newsdetail.asp?uvarnewsID=112 (395 words)

	Country Life : Country (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		The younger brother of the poet Stephen Spender, he is still working in the studio at Ulting, near Maldon, Essex, which he built, with a single storey house to match, in the orchard adjoining theOld Rectory where he lived in the 1950s with his wife Pauline and their son Quentin.
		After deciding against a design by a friend from the AA, Mr Spender contacted Rogers, who was working at the time in partnership with Norman Foster in Team 4, the practice they set up on return from post graduate training at Yale University.
		Spender's house, for which the contract was signed in January 1968, became one of two built experiments for a steel-framed house, built as far as possible with factory-made components.
	www.countrylife.co.uk /living/gardened/maldon.php (409 words)

	Bulletin - 8th April 2005
		The associations between Sussex and Humphrey Spender, who died on 11 March at the age of 94, go back to the 1970s when it gave a home to his inter-war photographs of working-class people in two Lancastrian towns.
		Humphrey was one of the first participants in the Mass-Observation project, which specialises in material about everyday life in Britain.
		When Euan Duff, a freelance photo-journalist, donated three collections of photographs to the Mass-Observation Archive in 2002, he said it was partly because he "liked the idea of sharing a home with Humphrey Spender".
	www.sussex.ac.uk /press_office/bulletin/08apr05/article12.shtml (708 words)

	Humphrey Spender's Humanist Landscapes
		Working for the new illustrated weekly magazine Picture Post and for Mass Observation, a project to survey British society, photographer Humphrey Spender (born 1910) produced a body of powerful and poignant photographs in the decade from 1932 to 1942.
		She discusses how his merging of individual drama with an evolving social consciousness is at the heart of the British documentary movement and is paralleled in the prose and poetry of the Auden Generation and especially in the concerns of Stephen Spender, Humphrey’s older brother.
		Illustrated with some seventy of Spender’s own photographs, the volume also offers reproductions of drawings, prints, and paintings by such contemporaries as Humphrey Jennings, William Coldstream, and Graham Bell, and photographs by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy, Henri Cartier-Bresson, and Bill Brandt.
	yalepress.yale.edu /YupBooks/book.asp?isbn=0300073348 (196 words)

	Highbeam Encyclopedia - Search Results for Spender, Sir Stephen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Spender, Sir Stephen SPENDER, SIR STEPHEN [Spender, Sir Stephen] 1909-95, English poet and critic, b.
		Find newspaper and magazine articles plus images and maps related to "Spender, Sir Stephen" at HighBeam.
		Society's dead poet; Stephen Spender, as a major new biography shows, will be best remembered for his public and social life rather than for any of his published poems.
	www.encyclopedia.com /articles/12205.html (306 words)

	Humphrey Jennings - Observing the masses
		Madge was a poet, born in 1912, who'd read science at Cambridge University but who left to become a journalist without finishing his degree.
		Humphrey Jennings had met him at university, and the two men shared an interest in surrealism and Marxism.
		Humphrey Spender, who later worked for Picture Post, took about 800 candid photographs of Bolton people.
	www.channel4.com /culture/microsites/J/jennings/masses.html (678 words)

	Surface beauty: photographer's enduring fascination with glass and china
		Humphrey Spender was a photographer on Tom Harrison's Mass Observation project in London and Blackpool in 1937–39, which established him as one of the important players in British documentary photography of the interwar years.
		Spender used a concealed camera to capture people in the street, in pubs, in cafes and on buses.
		He was mostly self-taught in photography though study in Germany in the 1920s had exposed him to the New Objectivity movement and the latest trends in progressive thinking.
	www.nga.gov.au /SurfaceBeauty/gallerythree.cfm (1112 words)

	Mass-Observation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		They also paid investigators to record people's conversation and behaviour at work, on the street and at various public occasions including public meetings and sporting and religious events.
		The early prime movers behind Mass Observation were anthropologist Tom Harrisson, poet Charles Madge and the film-maker Humphrey Jennings.
		Other collaborators in this work include: William Coldstream and Graham Bell (both painters), Julian Trevelyan (collagist) and Humphrey Spender photographer.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mass-Observation (352 words)

	HighBeam Encyclopedia - Humphrey Island (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Muriel Humphrey Brown 1912-98; Minnesota's `First Lady' dies Calm and gentle, smart and strong, she was wife and political partner to the legendary "happy warrior.".(NEWS)
		Hubert Humphrey III; Stepping out from his father's shadow He knows the revered name has helped his career, but he's built a record of his own.(NEWS)
		Obituary: Humphrey Spender; Photojournalist, painter and textile designer.(Obituaries)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/X/X-H1umphreyI1.asp (249 words)

	Mass-Observation Archive \| News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-26)
		Humphrey Spender, who died last March at the age of 94, was the last of the original members of Mass-Observation.
		Photographs taken by Mass-Observation photographer, Humphrey Spender, are being exhibited for the first time ever in continental Europe, as part of an international festival of visual arts in Madrid.
		There is an exhibition of 1930s documentary art at Tate Britain, London, that includes material from the Archive and photographs by Humphrey Spender and Humphrey Jennings, paintings by Julian Trevelyan and William Coldstream.
	www.massobs.org.uk /news.html (4211 words)

	Barista » Blog Archive » 1937 comes alive
		Humphrey Spender was lurking around Bolton in Lancashire for a few weeks in 1937, using a discreet 35mm Leica camera which allowed him to explore the new notion of spontaneous documentary photography.
		“Spender experienced directly negative reactions from people who objected to being photographed and made this observation years after the project had finished: “We were called spies, pryers, mass-eavesdroppers, nosey parkers, peeping-toms, lopers, snoopers, envelop-steamers, keyhole artists, sex maniacs, sissies, society playboys.”.
		Born privileged, he was a friend of Christopher Isherwood, for whom he did the first cover to Goodbye to Berlin, and the brother of Stephen Spender.
	barista.media2.org /?p=2658 (651 words)

	venepoetics
		Lorca's influence on the allegorical nature of Spender's play is obvious and there are several moments in Trial of a Judge that Spender manages to develop fantastically, with style and rhetorical (political) force.
		The characters are versions of Spender's own political and personal struggles, though fascism remains the key subject of the play.
		Spender and Upward's 1938 books tried to develop literary and political methods (ways of seeing) based on intersections between poetry and prose.
	venepoetics.blogspot.com (2300 words)

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