Photography
Inspired by seeing an exhibition of the work of French photographer Henri Cartier Bresson, Ravilious took up photography shortly after moving with his wife to Devon during the 1970s. He was asked to contribute work to the Beaford Archive, intended as a means of documenting images that show the lifestyle associated with a small area of North Devon. What began as a short-term project turned into a seventeen year quest, with Ravilious making some 80,000 black and white images for Beaford Arts, and preserving some additional 5,000 old photographs of the area. The archive is now an internationally important collection.
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“If photography is allowed to stand in for art in some of its functions it will soon supplant or corrupt it completely thanks to the natural support it will find in the stupidity of the multitude. It must return to its real task, which is to be the servant of the sciences and the arts, but the very humble servant, like printing and shorthand which have neither created nor supplanted literature.”
—Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867)
“Too many photographers try too hard. They try to lift photography into the realm of Art, because they have an inferiority complex about their Craft. You and I would see more interesting photography if they would stop worrying, and instead, apply horse-sense to the problem of recording the look and feel of their own era.”
—Jessie Tarbox Beals (1870–1942)