Lake Louise and Mount Victoria, Banff National Park, Alberta Canada. Printed and Published by John Hinde Ltd

PhotoHastings sends postcards to London

The exhibition, Postcards From Robert’s, which has been curated by Professor Val Williams as part of the PARC ARCHIVE-MANIA
season 2014-15, opens tonight at the UAL London College of Communication. It is a partnership exhibition between PhotoHastings 2014 and the Photography and the Archive Research Centre (PARC) at UAL, London College of Communication.

For some years, Prof Val Williams has been working with the objects and collections assembled in Robert’s Rummage in Hastings Old Town. Her first series, Pictures From Robert’s, was exhibited in ‘Finds 1’ at the Well Gallery, London College of Communication, and published in the Journal of Photography and Culture.

This second project in the series  Postcards From Robert’s  will be shown in the new PARcSPACE at LCC. For this series, Val Williams selected 400 postcards from the entire stock of several thousand, collating them into sections such as; People on their Own in the Landscape, The Main Street of the Village, Couples in Picturesque Places, and Bays. Williams has also selected a set of colour photographs taken by German émigré Edmind Nagele, for the John Hinde postcard company. ‘Robert’s Rummage’ is an institution in Hastings Old Town. It has provided a generation of men, women and children, residents and tourists, with items from the very useful to the highly decorative, and everything in between.

Postcards From Robert’s,  15-31 October, 15 Opening Party Oct, 4.30pm-6.30pm London College of Communication, Room W224, Elephant & Castle London, SE1 6SB

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