| Names: | Born: Malcolm Lewin Stockdale Parson
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| | Dates: | 1877, 27 March - 1967 | | Born: | Great Britain, Surrey, Cobham | | Active: | Great Britain | | Gender: | Male |
British photographer and an accomplished watercolorist who joined the ‘Linked Ring‘ in 1907. He also signed the Vorticist Movement manifesto ‘BLAST‘ in 1914. He was a friend of George Bernard Shaw who shared his interests in photography. He lived and worked most of his life on the island of Jersey.
A film about him entitled "Arbuthnot; London‘s Leading Photographer" was supposedly shown in London 1918-20 and we would welcome any further details.Preparing biographies | | Portraits
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Family history
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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 |
The following books are useful starting points to obtain brief biographies but they are not substitutes for the monographs on individual 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.115 [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 Malcolm Arbuthnot.]
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