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Title:
Social Sciences Tower, U.C.W. Aberystwyth 1978
Object name(s):
Photography; Modern architecture, Llandinam Building, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Brief description:
Modern architecture, Llandinam Building, University of Wales, Aberystwyth. A large modern building with an overhanging concrete tower with rows of windows on two sides. Clear sky. Upward camera angle. Black and white image with a range of tones
Collection:
Aberystwyth University, School of Art Museum & Gallery
Acquisition date:
1986
Acquisition funding source:
Catherine Lewis Trust
Acquisition method:
Purchase
Dimension:
Width
Dimension value:
279
Dimension:
Height
Dimension value:
379
Inscription content:
(pencil, mount, verso) GWYN MARTIN ''COLLEGE TOWER'' Aberystwyth Camera Club. / No.1., (black felt tip, mount, verso) 47, (blue ballpoint ink, mount, verso) 55 [on label], (printed and typed text, label, mount, verso) THE WELSH PHOTOGRAPHIC FEDERATION ENTERED for the 1980 MEMORIAL TROPHY COMPETITION JUDGE: Ian W. Platt, Esq., FRPS, APSA, EFIAP Print No.
Material:
Silver print on Kodak WFL 2D matt paper mounted on cream card
Object name:
Photography; Modern architecture, Llandinam Building, University of Wales, Aberystwyth
Object number:
PH401
Object production date:
1978
Date - earliest / single:
1978
Date - latest:
1978
Object production person:
Gwyn Martin
Person's association:
Artist/Maker
Person's biographical note:
Photographer. After leaving school he served in the Second World War as a navigator in the RAF. He partook in 50 bombing raids in Europe until shot down in Norway in 1942 whereafter he was held for two and a half years in the prisoner-of-war camp Stalag Luft III. After the war he trained as a pharmacist and played rugby for Cardiff. From 1948 he became a partner in his father-in-law\'s chemist shop, Taylor Lloyd Ltd., in Aberystwyth. He was a member of the Aberystwyth Camera Club, serving as President from 1958, and photographed people, places and natural forms in and around Aberystwyth and also in South Africa. His autobiography, from 1939-1945, \'Up and Under\', was published in 1989 and the photo book \'A Stroll around the Harbour\' was published in 2004.
Person's birth date:
1921
Person's death date:
2001
Person's forenames:
Gwyn
Person's place of birth:
UK, Wales, Rhondda, Penygraig
Person's place of death:
Aberystwyth
Person's surname:
Martin
Object production place:
UK, Wales, Aberystwyth
Owner:
The artist
Organisation's association:
Object source
Responsible department/section:
Photography

Persistent shareable link for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/acbd6f0a-ce00-3942-b4e5-800208216a72

Use licence for this record: CC BY-NC

Attribution for this record: https://museumdata.uk/objects/acbd6f0a-ce00-3942-b4e5-800208216a72, Aberystwyth University, School of Art Museum & Gallery, CC BY-NC

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