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Philip Hatfield

London

Curator, writer and photographer

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The B2E Wheelers get Competitive: Chris and the HOK Sportive

Chris gets his first taste of competition cycling. Photograph by SportivePhoto. Having tested himself with a competitive ride around Kent last weekend Chris fills us in on his progress with a first guest post. Sunday 28th April was a beautiful, fresh day so just perfect for the Heart of Kent... Continue reading

Posted May 4, 2013 at The Curator's Camera:

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Going round in circles: the B2E Wheelers get training

Starting to get excited - perhaps too excited... While June is still a little while away excitement is starting to build in the two B2E Wheelers camps (see above for one example). Why is this? Mostly it's down to all of you, we've already raised £2,000 (even more with wonderful... Continue reading

Posted Apr 24, 2013 at The Curator's Camera:

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The B2E Wheelers 'Warm' Up

The B2E Wheelers hit the road for the first time... will it end well? With only 68 days to go until the B2E Wheelers hit the road Chris and I decided we should do our first joint training today, a warm up if you will. Of course, in keeping with... Continue reading

Posted Mar 31, 2013 at The Curator's Camera:

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Introducing: the B2E Wheelers

Giusto Cerutti copes with one of the many possible problems facing the B2E Wheelers. From Wikimedia Commons. A break from usual service on Curator's Camera to talk about a weekend project; preparing to cycle from Bristol to Margate in early June, 2013. The point of this tour of the south... Continue reading

Posted Mar 19, 2013 at The Curator's Camera:

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Digitising collections

Photograph of some of the celebrations for the 1908 Tercentenary of Quebec, form the British Library. At work I'm in the process of digitising a collection of Canadian photographs the Library holds, an example from the collection can be seen above. Last week saw the majority of the digitisation finished... Continue reading

Posted Mar 17, 2013 at The Curator's Camera:

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I don't like cricket...

Cricket on the Campo Grande, San Salvador. Image from the British Library Americas blog. I love it. Sport infrequently graces the roll of Curator's Camera but today is one of those days. Back in 2012 I wrote a paper for a conference at the British Library on cricket in the... Continue reading

Posted Feb 2, 2013 at The Curator's Camera:

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Haiti and Hurricane Hazel: records from the CO files

Orphans being taken aboard HMS Vidal, June 1956. From the National Archives on Flickr. The National Archives of the UK have recently been adding photographs from their collections to their Flickr feed and they are well worth a look. Originally this post was to be about the recently uploaded Australian... Continue reading

Posted Jan 29, 2013 at The Curator's Camera:

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A very British house: Ightham Mote

Ightham Mote in the Fall. By PJHatfield. Late on in 2012 I took a trip to Ightham Mote in Kent, as you can see it's a beautiful country house with the most horrendous to spell name in the world. It is also quintisentially British. In writing this I'm not refering... Continue reading

Posted Jan 24, 2013 at The Curator's Camera:

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The North American Indian: the gigantic work of Edward Curtis

'Bear's Belly' by E. S. Curtis (1908). For more, see the British Library Americas blog. During the week I had the pleasure of spending time with Edward Curtis' gigantic photographic project, 'The North American Indian'. Published between 1907 and 1930 the work attempted to comprehensively depict the various Native American... Continue reading

Posted Jan 20, 2013 at The Curator's Camera:

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Old maps, evolving uses

17th century map of Nevis and St. Christopher (St. Kitts), via britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk I love maps, which means my job has quite a number of perks as the Library holds a large number of very old maps of Canada, the Caribbean and the rest of the world. A few days ago... Continue reading

Reblogged Jan 14, 2013 at The Curator's Camera:

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The General's View

'The General's View', Greenwich Park. By PJHatfield. I have a soft spot for places where Canada seeps onto the landscape of the UK and so my first visit to Greenwich Park (I know, eight years here and I've only just been; shocking) had an extra pleasure. General Wolfe looms large... Continue reading

Posted Jan 12, 2013 at The Curator's Camera:

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World War One's digital history

Believe it or not, this handsome chap actually does have something to do with WW1 (via britishlibrary.typepad.co.uk) Today involved quite a bit of coming and going to the Library's reproduction studio, ferrying materials for the Library's WW1 orientated collaboration with Europeana. A series of Canadian photos relating to the war,... Continue reading

Reblogged Jan 10, 2013 at The Curator's Camera:

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Thanks Ian. Happy New Year and hope all's well in LA.

Commented Jan 8, 2013 on Idle No More: on the rails at The Curator's Camera:

Idle No More: on the rails

'Stolen Land' in Edmonton, Alberta. Photo by PJHatfield. As Idle No More continues to grow (to the extent it now has its own Wikipedia page) and blockades spread to an increasing amount of Canada's infrastructure I was reminded of some of the sights I witnessed on my trip across Canada... Continue reading

Posted Jan 7, 2013 at The Curator's Camera:

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The Curator's Camera: new for 2013

Sightseeing in Niagara, Ontario. P J Hatfield. Unfinished Worlds is changing, in fact it's getting a new identity for 2013. Its new identity, 'The Curator's Camera' is something of a Ronseal title; expect lots of posts on my photography and curatorial work with a little less analysis from now on.... Continue reading

Posted Jan 6, 2013 at The Curator's Camera:

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Hi Kev, I'm afraid the earliest materials on formal matches we have are noted above. There are earlier mentions of informal matches in other works we hold (such as Charles Darwin writing about cricket being played in New Zealand) but that's all I can offer. Other materials and miscellanea of use to you might be held at the MCC library.

Commented Jan 2, 2013 on Notes on the Beginning of a Rivalry: England vs Australia at Americas studies blog

To Make the Ocean Bluer: what we want from photographs

Ocean hues and family snaps. Own photo. 'The camera never lies' is an often (mis)quoted phrase which, while patently untrue, tells us a lot about photography. Specifically, that we invariably want to believe what we see within the frame of the image. In no form of photography is this more... Continue reading

Posted Sep 13, 2012 at The Curator's Camera:

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The Height of Competition: Olympic Photography

The Olympic Park at night. Own photo. After weeks of watching Olympic events on the telly I finally got to go to the Olympic Park and watch some sport this week, in the form of Paralympic swimming. The competition was amazing and we were lucky enough to see one British... Continue reading

Posted Sep 8, 2012 at The Curator's Camera:

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New Homes: changing ways of seeing

Limbering up for autumn in Bushy Park. Own photo. You might have noticed things have been a bit quiet here recently, largely because I've been in the process of moving house. Indeed, not only moving house but changing area and now everything looks very different. Now, of course everything looks... Continue reading

Posted Sep 2, 2012 at The Curator's Camera:

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New Sights in Familiar Places: the Olympics

Waiting for the road race to come through, Richmond Park during London 2012 I get the feeling no Londoner's blog will be complete in the next two weeks without a post on the Olympics. So here's mine, hot from the press and a morning in Richmond Park. I won't muddy... Continue reading

Posted Jul 28, 2012 at The Curator's Camera:

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Thanks for this, I think it must be a thing of the past but we'll find out the next time an Ashes series goes to the wire! That said, the crowd records available through archived tweets, RSS feeds and other e-resources will be fascinating to future researchers.

Commented Jun 29, 2012 on Notes on the Beginning of a Rivalry: England vs Australia at Americas studies blog

MoMA: defining a city's way of seeing

I'd been having a long chat about Robert Crumb just before I went to MoMA, so this caught my eye... A short post on an institution and gallery that, I feel, has a hugely significant place in the history of photography. The Museum of Modern Art has always been a... Continue reading

Posted May 13, 2012 at The Curator's Camera:

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Hi Abe. I think I owe you thanks, your statement about the creation of photographs was very inspiring to me. I've had some time to enjoy your work since I wrote this and am pleased you thought this post worth a comment. Also, I must confess I am envious of your recent acquisition! With best wishes, Phil

Commented Apr 25, 2012 on How Seldom a Photograph is Made: Abe Frajndlich at The Curator's Camera:

Weegee: tabloids, murder and geography

Afternoon at Coney Island, July 21st 1940. Copyright, Weegee / International Centre of Photography. Towards the end of a cold afternoon's wandering around they city I stumbled into the ICP and their current collections exhibition, 'Weegee: Murder is my Business'. The exhibition itself is very well done, mixing a large... Continue reading

Posted Apr 1, 2012 at The Curator's Camera:

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Geographies of Collections: things you find in libraries

The bowling alley at the Frick, photograph by Jake Dobkin (from an article in Gothamist) For a place where space is at a premium, New York has an awful lot of things hidden away in nooks and crannies - and its libraries, archives and museums are no exception. I was... Continue reading

Posted Mar 23, 2012 at The Curator's Camera:

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