Tom Wood (photographer)

Tom Wood (born January 14, 1951 in County Mayo , Western Ireland) is an Irish photographer . His photographs have been presented in numerous exhibitions and published in several photo books.

Tom Wood at Center Culturel Irlandais, Paris, November 12th 2015

Life

Tom Wood studied painting (BAHons.) From 1973 to 1976 at Leicester Polytechnic. He lived in Merseyside / Liverpool between 1978 and 2003 . From 1980 to 1984 he was a lecturer in photography at the Liverpool Polytechnic & Southport College of Art, until 1986 at the Wirral Metropolitan College in Wallasey . There he taught fine art, design and photography until 1998, and between 1997 and 1998 Wood was also a PT lecturer in fine art and graphic design at John Moores University Liverpool. Today he lives in Wales.

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Tom Wood's photographic work is characterized by a direct, open view of his living environment. His often long-term projects revolve around people's everyday lives, classic portraits, situations on the street and at home, and in recent years also landscapes. Wood's style can be described as social documentary, but does not follow a fixed concept. His pictures are created spontaneously and are composed unconventionally. In the series you can see an honest and humorous attitude on the part of the photographer, which, despite all the confrontation, never loses respect for his counterpart. In recent years he has increasingly combined recordings of people from his personal environment with those from other contexts.

Wood works with a 35 mm format camera, but also used medium and large format cameras for portraits. Until the end of the 1980s, he mostly photographed on black and white negative film, then on color negative film. For a few years now, he has also devoted himself more to the landscape, recording it with a panorama camera. He presents his photographs, which are listed with title, place and year, in exhibitions and photo books, always combining old and new images from the archive. Tom Wood is bystander in the standard works . A History of Street Photography by Colin Westerbeck and Joel Meyerowitz (2nd ed. Boston 2001) and The Photobook. A History - Volume 2 represented by Martin Parr and Gerry Badger (London 2006).

Quotes

"I think of a photograph as a receiver of sensation. Sensations are intangible, I try to organize them through the act of photography." Tom Wood

Solo exhibitions (selection)

• 1996 International Center of Photography, New York
• 1996 Galerie du Jour, Paris
• 1998 Museum of Modern Art, Oxford
• 1999 Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne
• 1999 Gallery of Photography, Dublin
• 2000 Thomas Erben Gallery, New York
• 2000 Ulm Art Association
• 2001 Suermondt Ludwig Museum, Aachen
• 2002 City Gallery Wolfsburg
• 2002 Kassel Art Association
• 2003 C / O Berlin
• 2004 Center de la Photographie, Genève
• 2005 National Museum of Photography, Kobenhavn
• 2005 FOAM Photography Museum, Amsterdam
• 2005 Le Château d'Eau, Toulouse
• 2005 Musée de l'Élysee, Lausanne
• 2006 Approach Gallery, London
• 2006 Galerie Thomas Zander, Cologne
• 2011 Galerie Le Bleu du Ciel, Lyon
• 2011 Gallery Albrecht, Berlin
• 2012 Sit Down Gallery, Paris
• 2012 The Photographers Gallery, London
• 2013 National Media Museum, Bradford
• 2015 Center Culturel Irlandais, Paris

Group exhibitions (selection)

• 1994 Street Photography , Victoria & Albert Museum, London
• 1995 20 Modern British Photographs , Victoria & Albert Museum, London
• 1996 Blind Spot , Paolo Baldacci Gallery, New York
• 1996 Inside Out , Galerie du Jour, Paris
• 1999 International Photo Days , Herten
• 2000 Les Photographies Collectionnees par agnes b , Center National de la Photographie, Paris
• 2001 The Sidewalk Never Ends , Art Institute of Chicago
• 2004 Rues / Strassen , Center Culturel Suisse, Paris
• 2004 Really true! , Ruhr Museum, Essen
• 2004 Relating to Photography , Fotografie Forum, Frankfurt
• 2004 Shrinking Cities , Kunst-Werke, Berlin
• 2006 24x36 , State Representation Rhineland-Palatinate, Berlin
• 2007 How We Are: Photographing Britain , Tate Britain, London
• 2007 Liverpool and the Avantgarde , Tate Liverpool
• 2008 Parrworld , House of Art, Munich
• 2008 Baby , Nederlands Fotomuseum, Rotterdam

Prices (selection)

• 1998 Terence Donovan Award, Royal Photographic Society, Bath, UK.
• 2002 Prix Dialogue de l'Humanité (Outreach Award), Rencontres d'Arles, France.

Collections

• Museum of Modern Art, New York
• International Center of Photography, New York
• Art Institute, Chicago
• National Museum of Photography, Copenhagen
• Victoria & Albert Museum, London
• British Council, London
• Walker Art Gallery, Liverpool
• National Media Museum, Bradford
• Municipal gallery, Wolfsburg

Publications (selection)

• Looking for love. Cornerhouse New York 1989
• All Zones Off Peak. (Text by Mark Holborn) Dewi Lewis Publishing Stockport 1998.
• People. (Texts Lewis Biggs, Jürgen Kisters, Klaus Honnef and Hubertus von Amelunxen) Wienand Cologne 1999.
• Tom Wood. (Catalog) Gallery in the community center Neunkirchen / Saar 2000.
• Bus Odyssey. (Catalog; text by Sylvia Böhmer) Hatje Cantz Ostfildern-Ruit 2001.
• Not only female. (Catalog) Damage Cologne 2004
• Photie Man. (Catalog) Steidl Göttingen 2005.
• F / M (Female / Male). (Catalog; text by Gilles Verneret, Mark Durden) Galerie Le Bleu du Ciel & Éditions 205 Lyon 2011.
• Men and Women. (presumably Feb. 2013) Steidl Göttingen 2013.

Web links

• Literature by and about Tom Wood in the catalog of the German National Library
• Article: Exhibition Men and Women 2012
• Blog: Pictures and essay on The Chelsea Reach 2010
• website: 24 photos in Museum 52 London 2006
• Article: Interview, essay and pictures around 2004
• Article: Exhibition All Zones Off Peak 1999

Individual evidence

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2. ^ Conversation with the artist on November 9, 2011 in Lyon, France.
3. ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from May 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . website Issue Magazine, Interview and Essay. Retrieved March 22, 2012.