David Alan Mellor

David Alan Mellor is a British curator, professor and writer.[1] He has been awarded the Royal Photographic Society's J. Dudley Johnston Award and Education Award.

Life and career

David Mellor — as he was called before he wanted to avoid confusion with the politician of the same name — studied art at Sussex University under Quentin Bell. During this time Asa Briggs, then Vice-Chancellor of the University, received the archive of Mass-Observation from Tom Harrisson. Mellor has published and curated exhibitions about the substantial collection of pre-war photographs of working-class life contained in this archive.[2]

Exhibitions curated by Mellor include Paradise Lost: The New Romantic Imagination in Britain (Barbican Centre, 1987);[3] The Sixties (1993);[4] and Co-Optic & Documentary Photography Group (Brighton Photo Biennial, 2014).[5] As a professor of art at Sussex University, his students included Jeremy Deller.[4]

Awards

Publications

Publications by Mellor
  • Cecil Beaton. London: Jonathan Cape, 1994; ISBN 0-224-04122-3; coedited with Philippe Garner
  • Arthur Tress: Centric 52: Requiem for a Paperweight, Long Beach: California State University, University Art Museum, 1994; ISBN 0-936270-33-0
  • David Hiscock. London: Zelda Cheatle, 1995. ISBN 0-9518371-9-2
  • Sixties London: The Photographs of Robert Whitaker 1965–70 Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1996.
  • The Only Blonde in the World: Pauline Boty, 1938-1966 London: AM Publications, 1998. ISBN 0-9509896-2-2; with Sue Watling.
  • Chemical Traces: Photography and Conceptual Art, 1968–1998, Kingston upon Hull: Kingston upon Hull City Museums & Art Galleries, 1998; ISBN 0-904490-19-X.
  • The Barry Joule Archive: Works on Paper Attributed to Francis Bacon, Dublin: Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2000; ISBN 1-873654-84-7.
  • The Sixties: Britain and France, 1962–1973: The Utopian Years. London: Philip Wilson, 2001; ISBN 0-85667-467-2.
  • Tracing Light. Maidstone: Photoworks, 2001; ISBN 0-9517427-8-7; with Garry Fabian Miller.
  • The Art of Robyn Denny. London: Black Dog, 2002; ISBN 1-901033-33-3.
  • Interpreting Lucian Freud. London: Tate, 2002; ISBN 1-85437-442-7.
  • Van Gogh vu par Bacon. Arles: Actes sud, 2002; ISBN 2-7427-3840-1; Vincent van Gogh as seen by Francis Bacon, edited by Mellor and Yolande Clergue (in French)
  • Liliane Lijn: Works 1959-80 Warwick: Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, 2005; ISBN 0-902683-75-6
  • No Such Thing as Society: Photography in Britain 1967–1987: From the British Council and the Arts Council Collection. London: Hayward Publishing, 2007; ISBN 978-1-85332-265-5.

Publications with contributions by Mellor
gollark: Also, economics isn't MUCH higher, these are box plots.
gollark: https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/718225/SFR_18_2017_LEO_mainText.pdfHere is some slightly older data.
gollark: Anyway, the issue with making stuff mandatory at school and stuff is that it will often end up just making people learn how to run the algorithms and whatnot enough to pass exams rather than creating actual understanding and ability to solve practical problems.
gollark: Yes, apparently.
gollark: I don't know about in the US, but there is a *lot* of difference in earnings between courses.

References
  1. Arnot, Chris (1 March 2005). "David Alan Mellor: Image maker". The Guardian. London. Retrieved 26 October 2016.
  2. Arnot, Chris (1 March 2005). "David Alan Mellor: Image maker". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 8 January 2019 – via www.theguardian.com.
  3. "A Paradise Lost the Neo-Romantic Imagination in Britain 1935-55" Barbican Art Gallery, Barbican Centre. Accessed 26 October 2016
  4. Chris Arnot, David Alan Mellor: Image Maker, The Guardian 1 March 2005; accessed 2010-10-22.
  5. "Co-Optic & Documentary Photography Group|BPB14", Brighton Photo Biennial. Accessed 2 November 2014.
  6. "Art history professor recognised for contribution to photography, University of Sussex, 4 October 2005; accessed 2010-10-22.
  7. "Education Award" Royal Photographic Society. Accessed 26 October 2016
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