John Blakemore

Blakemore, John (b. 1936), English photographer. He discovered the camera during national service in Tripoli in 1955. Wartime childhood experiences and the Family of Man exhibition inspired him initially on his return home to photograph the people of Coventry and its post-war reconstruction. He began teaching in the late 1970s, and became a major figure in what was then seen as a ‘British obsession with photography’. His images—then and now in black-and-white—of landscape and still-life subjects, from which he makes prints superb in detail, texture, and tonal richness, are widely collected. His books include Inscape (1991) and Stilled Gaze (1994).

— Richard SadlerRichard Sadler

Bibliography

• Blakemore, J., John Blakemore's Black and White Photography Workshop (2005)