Peter Marlow (19 January 1952 – 21 February 2016) was a British photographer and photojournalist, and member of Magnum Photos.[1]
Career edit
Born in Kenilworth, England in 1952, Marlow studied psychology at Manchester University, graduating in 1974.[2] He began his photography career in 1975 working on an Italian cruise liner in the Caribbean before joining the Sygma news agency in Paris in 1976.[3] In the 1970s, Marlow worked in Northern Ireland, Angola, The Philippines and Lebanon primarily as a war photographer, but soon found that the competition of photojournalism did not suit him.
I did get some very good pictures, and was doing a lot of conflict work, but I just realised I was never ever going to be Don McCullin. And actually, in certain situations, I was very, very scared.[4]
He returned home to Britain, and worked in Liverpool on an eight-year project, Liverpool – Looking out to Sea, which documented what he perceived to be decline of the city under Margaret Thatcher.[4]
He became associated with Magnum Photos in 1980 and became a full member in 1986, having been attracted to the freedom the agency gives its photographers to work on personal projects.[4][1][5] Alongside Chris Steele-Perkins, he founded Magnum's London office in 1987.[1] He served as the agency's president twice and was vice-president numerous times.[1] The photographer Martin Parr said it was "difficult to overestimate" Marlow's contribution to Magnum".[1]
He also worked regularly for The Sunday Times in the mid-1980s.[1] In 1991 he received an assignment from the Somme department in France to photograph Amiens.[6] Later he began to work abroad again, travelling to Japan, the United States, and other parts of Europe.[7] His later photography is primarily in color.[8] Though well known for his depictions of places, Marlow also documented politics with a collaboration with Tony Blair.[3]
Marlow is also known for his photos of his three sons and wife.[2]
Marlow died on 21 February 2016 from influenza contracted during a stem cell transplant as a treatment for multiple myeloma.[9][10]
Publications edit
Books by Marlow edit
- Liverpool: Looking out to Sea. London: Jonathan Cape/Random House, 1993. ISBN 0-224-03727-7; ISBN 0-224-03728-5
- Concorde: The Last Summer. London: Thames & Hudson, 2006. ISBN 978-0-500-51312-5. With a preface by A. A. Gill and an introduction by Mike Bannister.
- Concorde: le dernier été. Paris: Thames & Hudson, 2006. ISBN 9782878112832. Translated by Joëlle Marelli.
- The English Cathedral. London and New York: Merrell, 2012. ISBN 9781858945903. With an introduction by Martin Barnes and other text by John Goodall.
- English National Ballet: Breaking New Ground. London: Magnum Photos, 2015. ISBN 978-0956547842.
- Undercover Spitalfields: Market Stories. London: Magnum Photos, 2013. ISBN 9780956547835. With Ballymore Group.
Books with others edit
- Département Somme: regards de photographes. Amiens: Trois Cailloux, 1992. ISBN 2903082669. Photographs by Marlow, Harry Gruyaert, Jeanloup Sieff, Michel Vanden Eeckhoudt, Martine Voyeux and Hugues de Wurstemberger; prefaces by Christian Caujolle and Jacques Darras.
- Way to Gods: Magunamu Foto: Kumano kodō, Santiago e no michi (WAY to GODS マグナム フォト 熊野古道 サンティアゴへの道), ed. Nagasaka Yoshimitsu (永坂嘉光). Tokyo: Kawade Kobō Shinsha, 1999. ISBN 4-309-90293-6. (Additional title on front cover: Ancient Kumano Roads and Roads to Santiago.) Contains photographs by Marlow of Kumano kodō and camino de Santiago; as well as photographs by Elliott Erwitt, Chris Steele-Perkins and Harry Gruyaert.
- The Shape of a Pocket. London: Bloomsbury, 2001. With John Berger.[dubious ]
Filmography edit
- 1989: Moving Stills, Channel 4, UK.
- 1992: Waiting for Madonna (documentary, 15 min, directed by Marlow), TV Tokyo, Japan/Little Magic Productions USA.
- 1994: Profile of Peter Marlow, The Late Show, BBC, UK.
Awards edit
- 1982: Arts Council of Great Britain.[citation needed]
- 1986: National Headline Award.[citation needed]
- 1988: The Photographers' Gallery.[citation needed]
- 1999: III Premio de Creación Fotográfica Luis Ksado.[11]
- 2006: Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society, Bath, UK.[12]
Exhibitions edit
This section needs additional citations for verification. (February 2018) |
- 1979: The Ultra Right in Europe, The Canon Gallery, Amsterdam.
- 1983: London by Night, The Photographers' Gallery, London.
- 1987: Peter Marlow's London Night Photos, Lausanne, Switzerland.
- 1989: Liverpool, Il Diaframma, Milan.
- 1993: Looking Out to Sea, Open Eye Gallery, Liverpool; The Photographers' Gallery, London.
- 1993: Brighton Besides the Seaside, University of Brighton, Brighton, UK.
- 1994: Looking Out to Sea, Royal Photographic Society, Bath, UK.
- 1998: Non Places, Keynes Gallery, Canterbury, UK.
- 1999: Ancient Kumano Roads Japan and the Road to Santiago de Compostela Spain, Galleries in Osaka, Kyoto, Tokyo and Wakayama, Japan.
- 2000: Britain, Saison Photographique Cherbourg Octeville, France.
- 2001: Nantes, ABN AMRO Gallery Nantes, France.
- 2009–2010: London at Night, The Wapping Project Bankside, Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, London.[13][14]
- 2011: Point of Interest, The Wapping Project Bankside, Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, London.[15][16]
- 2013: The English Cathedral, The Wapping Project Bankside, Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, London.[17][18]
Collections edit
This section needs additional citations for verification. (February 2018) |
Marlow's work is held in the following public collections:
- Museum of London, London.
- Imperial War Museum, London.
- Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Denmark.
- The Arts Council of Great Britain, UK.
- The Photographers' Gallery, London.
- Centre national de la photographie, Paris.
- Victoria and Albert Museum, London.
- Royal Photographic Society, Bath, UK.
- Institute Valenciano Arte Moderne, Valencia, Spain.
- The National Portrait Gallery, London.
- Archive of the Birmingham City Library, Birmingham, UK.
- Magnum Photos Collection, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin, TX.[19]
References edit
- ^ a b c d e f O'Hagan, Sean (3 March 2016). "Peter Marlow obituary". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 6 March 2016.
- ^ a b "In Memoriam: Remembering the Photographers We Lost in 2016". Time. Retrieved 13 April 2022.
- ^ a b "Euro Visions biography". Archived from the original on 6 July 2011. Retrieved 10 December 2010.
- ^ a b c "Peter Marlow's Incredible Photos of Eerie English Crisis". Vice. 23 April 2014. Retrieved 6 March 2018.
- ^ Seymour, Tom (25 February 2016). "Obituary: Peter Marlow". British Journal of Photography. Retrieved 7 March 2016.
- ^ Personal website biography
- ^ Magnum Photos biography
- ^ Urban Encounters biography Archived 2010-04-25 at the Wayback Machine
- ^ Stuart Franklin, "Peter Marlow: 1952-2016", Magnum Photos, 22 February 2016.
- ^ Olivier Laurent, "In Memoriam: Peter Marlow (1952 – 2016)", Time, 22 February 2016.
- ^ "Historial Archived 2015-04-11 at the Wayback Machine", Deputación da Coruña. Accessed 5 April 2015.
- ^ "Honorary fellowships", Royal Photographic Society. Accessed 5 April 2015.
- ^ "Peter Marlow at the Wapping Project Bankside". Wallpaper. 26 November 2009. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
- ^ "Exhibitions \ Peter Marlow \ London At Night". The Wapping Project Bankside. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
- ^ "Exhibitions \ Peter Marlow \ Point of Interest". The Wapping Project Bankside. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
- ^ Epstein, Robert (22 May 2012). "Portfolio: Peter Marlow". The Independent. Archived from the original on 26 May 2022. Retrieved 14 June 2012.
- ^ Klingelfuss, Jessica (22 July 2013). "Peter Marlow's 'The English Cathedral' at The Wapping Project Bankside". Wallpaper. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
- ^ "Exhibitions \ Peter Marlow \ The English Cathedral". The Wapping Project Bankside. Retrieved 23 February 2016.
- ^ "Peter Marlow | Magnum Consortium". www.magnumconsortium.net. Retrieved 26 February 2018.