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HomeContents > People > Photographers > Alexander Keighley

Names:
Other: Alex Keighley 
Pen: Forrester 
Dates:  1861, 3 February - 1947, 2 August
Born:  Great Britain, Yorkshire, Keighley
Died:  Great Britain, Yorkshire, Keighley
Active:  Great Britain
Gender:  Male
 
  
Amateur British photographer and a founder member of the Linked Ring Brotherhood. The leading pictorialist photographer in Britain from 1910-20, Keighley achieved the respect amongst his contemporaries in the twentieth century that H.P. Robinson had in the nineteenth. His work often has an air of mysticism about it.
 
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Alexander Keighley 
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Getty Research, Los Angeles, USA has an ULAN (Union List of Artists Names Online) entry for this photographer. This is useful for checking names and they frequently provide a brief biography. Go to website
 

Printed biographies

The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual photographers.

 
• Auer, Michele & Michel 1985 Encyclopedie Internationale Des Photographes de 1839 a Nos Jours / Photographers Encylopaedia International 1839 to the present (Hermance, Editions Camera Obscura) 2 volumes [A classic reference work for biographical information on photographers.] 
  
• Beaton, Cecil & Buckland, Gail 1975 The Magic Eye: The Genius of Photography from 1839 to the Present Day (Boston and Toronto: Little, Brown & Company) p.120 [Useful short biographies with personal asides and one or more example images.] 
  
• Lenman, Robin (ed.) 2005 The Oxford Companion to the Photograph (Oxford: Oxford University Press)  [Includes a short biography on Alexander Keighley.] 
  
 
  
 
  
 
  
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