Janine Wiedel

Janine Wiedel (born 1947)[1] is an American documentary photographer and visual anthropologist, based in London. Since the late 1960s she has been working on major projects that have become books and exhibitions. In the early 1970s she spent five years working on a project about Irish Travellers. In the late 1970s she spent two years documenting the industrial heartland of Britain.[2]

Wiedel's books include Irish Tinkers (1976), Looking at Iran (1976), Vulcan's Forge (1979), Dover, a Port in a Storm (1991) and Faces with Voices (1992).

She had a solo exhibition at The Photographers' Gallery in London in 1979. Associated Television broadcast a TV documentary about her called A Camera in the Street. She won British Life Photography Awards in 2016 and 2017. Her work is held in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art in New York City.

Life and work

Wiedel studied photography at Guildford.[1][n 1]

Irish Tinkers, a Portrait of Irish Travellers in the 1970s (1976) – In the early 1970s she spent five years photographing Irish Travellers,[1] resulting in 1976 in the book Irish Tinkers and an exhibition at The Photographers' Gallery in London. She was a photographer on / contributed photography to the film Traveller (1997).[3]

Publications

Books by Wiedel

  • Looking at Iran written and photographed. UK: A & C Black, 1976. ISBN 071361806X. Philadelphia: Lippincott, 1976. ISBN 9780397317974.
  • Irish Tinkers. UK: Latimer, 1976. ISBN 9780901539403. New York: St. Martin's, 1976, 1978. ISBN 978-0312436278. With a foreword and transcripts by Martina O'Fearadhaigh. Hardback.
    • London: Palgrave Macmillan, 1979. Softback.
    • Documentary-Photos, 2013. iBook for iPad and iPhone.
  • Vulcan's Forge. Industries of the Midlands. London: Archetype Visual Studies, 1979. OCLC 78400929. With a foreword by Sue Davis. Catalogue of an exhibition at The Photographers' Gallery, London; Associated Television (ATV) Centre, Birmingham; and Stoke City Museum & Art Gallery.
  • Dover, a Port in a Storm: Twentieth Century Lives in an English Town. Cross Channel Photographic Mission, 1991. ISBN 9780951742709.
  • Faces with Voices. Plymouth: Images, 1992. ISBN 9780948134333. Text by June Freeman and photographs by Wiedel. With a foreword by Ronald Blythe.

Other books

  • A Guide to Classroom Observation. London: Methuen, 1975. By Rob Walker and Clem Adelman, with photographs by Wiedel. ISBN 9780416812107.

Zines by Wiedel

  • Black Power: Black Panthers: 1969. Southport: Café Royal, 2017.
  • Black Power: Black Panthers: 1970. Southport: Café Royal, 2017. Second edition, 2017. Edition of 200 copies.
  • Smiths' Drop Forge: Birmingham 1976. Southport: Café Royal, 2017. Edited by Craig Atkinson. Edition of 200 copies.
  • Iron and Steel: The West Midlands 1977. Southport: Café Royal, 2017. Edited by Atkinson. Edition of 200 copies.
  • Coal Mining: The West Midlands 1978. Southport: Café Royal, 2018. Edited by Atkinson. Edition of 250 copies.
  • Chainmaking: The Black Country, West Midlands 1977. Southport: Café Royal, 2018. Edited by Atkinson. Edition of 250 copies.
  • Industry, West Midlands: 1977–1979. Includes seven separate zines in a box: Industries The West Midlands 1977–1979 (exclusive to this box set), Smiths' Drop Forge: Birmingham 1976, Iron and Steel: The West Midlands 1977, Coal Mining: The West Midlands 1978, Coal Mining: The West Midlands 1978, Chainmaking: The Black Country, West Midlands 1977, The Jewellery Quarter: Birmingham: 1977, and The Potteries: Stoke-on-Trent: 1978. Edition of 100 copies.

Publications with contributions by Wiedel

  • Soundings. Maidstone, Kent: Cross Channel Photographic Mission, 1994. Edited by Jane Alison and Brigitte Lardinois. ISBN 9780951742754. With an introduction by Neal Ascherson.

Solo exhibitions

Awards

  • 2016: Winner, Life at Work category, British Life Photography Awards[5]
  • 2016: Winner, Historic Britain category, British Life Photography Awards[5]
  • 2017: Winner, Historic category, British Life Photography Awards, for "Alan and fellow workers on midday break"[6][7]

Television

Collections

Wiedel's work is held in the following public collection:

Notes

  1. ↑ The potted CV in the Guardian article specifies the "Guildford School of Photography". This may be an editorial misunderstanding for the Guildford School of Art, which had a notable photography department.

References

  1. 1 2 3 "Janine Wiedel's best photograph: an Irish Traveller in 1970s Galway". The Guardian. 3 April 2013. Retrieved 2018-08-15.
  2. ↑ "About the author". Irish Tinkers: a portrait of Irish Travellers in the 1970's. 7 January 2013. Retrieved 2018-08-15.
  3. ↑ Traveller (1997) – via www.imdb.com
  4. ↑ "Archived copy". Archived from the original on 3 June 2016. Retrieved 15 August 2018.
  5. 1 2 "British Life Photography awards". BBC News. 7 March 2016. Retrieved 2018-08-17 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  6. ↑ "British Life Photography Awards winners document everyday experiences in the UK". Amateur Photographer. 12 December 2017. Retrieved 2018-08-15.
  7. ↑ "Winners, 2017". blpawards.org. Retrieved 2018-08-15.
  8. ↑ "Edward Steichen Archive in The Museum of Modern Art Archives". Museum of Modern Art. Retrieved 2018-08-15.
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