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Impressions Gallery

Impressions Gallery is an independent photography gallery that opened in York in 1972 and moved to Bradford in 2006. The National Science and Media Museum holds an internationally significant selection of contemporary photography from the Impressions Gallery archive, accumulated over the gallery's first 40 years and including early work by photographers such as Martin Parr.

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Untitled black and white photograph of a beach wth a woman kneeling at a man's feet, taken by Graham Finlayson for the Sunday Mirror newspaper, early 1970s. Used by the newspaper to illustrate an article on penis envy.

Woman Kneeling at Man's Feet

1970-1977
Impressions Gallery photography collection and archive. Approximately 2000 vintage photographs and contemporary photographs plus associated archive material relating to running of gallery (roughly 15,000 objects, including prints, posters, correspondence etc), covering period from 1972 to 2010.

Impressions Gallery photography collection and archive

1972-2010
A foamboard panel featuring twelve colour inkjet screenshots with annotations by James Radke. Images are dated and timed from 6th February 1991 18.40 to 7th February 1991 19.03. From the exhibition 'Gulf TV - The Real War' at the Impressions Gallery 12th September - 1st October 1992

Untitled

circa 1992
Poster, entitled 'Frances Benjamin Johnston: What a Woman can do With a Camera', from Impressions Gallery exhibition July 13th - August 25th 1984. Part of Impressions Gallery Archive Collection.

Frances Benjamin Johnston: What a Woman can do With a Camera

1984
Text panel 'Sir Benjamin Stone'. Original text by Michael MacDonagh, 1902. From the Impressions Gallery exhibition 'Politicians', 16 January - 13 March 1993.

Text Panel of Sir Benjamin Stone

1902
A colour photograph entitled 'Martin Hopton' by Stefan Sadofski taken in 1989. From the Impressions Gallery exhibition 'The Globe', 15 July - 2 September 1989.

Martin Hopton

1905-06-11
Black and white press print entitled "Weighbridge With Security Mirror, Hatfield Colliery", by Ross Williams, taken on 27th October 1983. From Impression Gallery exhibition 'Real Fire' 5th May - 2nd June 1984

Weighbridge With Security Mirror, Hatfield Colliery

1983-10-27
Colour photograph of advert taken from television, Bill Clinton and Jennifer Flowers secret love tape, taken by an unknown photographer about 1998.

TV advert with Bill Clinton and Jennifer Flowers

1992-1999
A colour photograph copy of original photographic collage entitled 'Book Cover for Mayakovsky's Book, Conversations with a Tax Inspector about Poetry' ' by Alexander Rodchenko, taken in 1926. From the Impressions Gallery exhibition 'The Globe', 15 July - 2 September 1989.

Mayakovsky's 'Conversations with a Tax Inspector about Poetry

1905-04-09
A black and white silver gelatin photograph entitled 'Political Portrait' by Deborah Hammond taken c 1985 depicting a portrait of a man with text 'REPRESENTATION'. From the Impressions Gallery exhibition 'Politicians', 16 January - 13 March 1993.

Political Portrait

1985
A foamboard panel featuring twelve colour inkjet screenshots with annotations by James Radke. Images date from 26th February 1991 to 27th February 1991. From the exhibition 'Gulf TV - The Real War' at the Impressions Gallery 12th September - 1st October 1992

Untitled

circa 1992
A silver gelatin photograph, computer composite image based on all the British Prime Ministers from Churchill to Major inclusive. (Churchill, Attlee, Eden, MacMillan, Home, Wilson, Heath, Callaghan, Thatcher and Major) produced by P J Benson and D I Perrett, Department of Psychology, St Andrews University. One of a series of sixty eight portraits depicting Churchill / Attlee.From the Impressions Gallery exhibition 'Politicians', 16 January - 13 March 1993.

Composite Computer Image; British Prime Ministers

1992
A foamboard panel featuring twelve colour inkjet screenshots with annotations by James Radke. Images are dated and timed from 8th February 1991 19.09 to 10th February 1991 17.46. From the exhibition 'Gulf TV - The Real War' at the Impressions Gallery 12th September - 1st October 1992

Untitled

circa 1992
Black and white photograph entitled 'Heslinton'. From the Impressions gallery 'A City Seen 130 in photographs of Old York' 01 May-7 June 1975.

Heslington

A black and white silver gelatin photograph entitled "Rudolf Nureyev", by Cecil Beaton. From the Impressions Gallery exhibition "The Body Electric: An Exhibition of Ballet and Dance Photography, 1859 to the Present Day", shown 7 January - 11 February 1984

Rudolf Nureyev

Colour photograph of a indicator light on a car. Possibly from Impressions Galley exhibition 'Becoming Nancy Drew'.

Becoming Nancy Drew: indicator light on a car.

A black and white silver gelatin photograph entitled "Second Hand Furniture Store, Springfield, Ohio, Summer 1938" taken by Ben Shahn, in 1938. From the Impressions Gallery exhibition "From Shore to Shining Shore", shown 25 November - 24 December 1978.

Second Hand Furniture Store, Springfield, Ohio

1938
Black and white press print entitled "Revell's Fuels, Hull" depicting a man filling sacks, by Ross Williams. From the exhibition 'Real Fire' at the Impressions Gallery 5th May to 2nd June 1984

Revell's Fuels, Hull

1984
A C-type colour photograph of the view from Texas School Book Depository from Kennedy Assassination series, photograph taken by Paul P?, printed in 1992. From the Impressions Gallery exhibition 'Politicians', 16 January - 13 March 1993.

View from Texas School Book Depository

1992; (1963)
A black and white silver gelatin photograph entitled 'Quiet Street', taken by Lionel Oostendorp in Windermere, Cape Town in January 1956. From Impressions Galley exhibition 'Drum' 10th December 1988 - 21st January 1989

Quiet Street

1956-01
Two Black and White silver gelatin prints entitled "Rendel Street" by Andrew Yeadon, 1978. From the exhibition 'Inside the City' at Impressions Gallery, 2 July - 29th July 1979

Rendel Street

1978
A black and white photograph entitled 'Swing When You're Winning: Lloyd Honeyghan lunges and Maurice Blocker looks for a way out during their title fight at the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday night', taken by David Ashdown in 1987. From the Impressions Gallery exhibition 'Photographs from the Independent Newspaper'.

Swing When You're Winning...

1987
Poster, entitled 'The Wall', from Impressions Gallery exhibition July 11th - August 28th 1987. Part of Impressions Gallery Archive Collection.

The Wall

1987
A black and white silver gelatin photograph entitled "Greek Migratory Woman Living in Cotton Camp, Exeter, California, 1936", taken by Dorothea Lange. From the Impressions Gallery exhibition "From Shore to Shining Shore", shown 25 November - 24 December 1978.

Greek Migratory Woman, California, 1936

1978
A black and white silver gelatin photograph entitled "Near Los Angeles, California", taken by Dorothea Lange in September 1939. From the Impressions Gallery exhibition "From Shore to Shining Shore", shown 25 November - 24 December 1978.

Near Los Angeles, California

1939-09
1. 'Positions' Stepehen Lawson, Lynn Silverman and Clare Charnley, 6 June to 4 July 1987 (IMP/1/183); 'The Wall', various artists, 11 July to 8 August 1987. (IMP/1/182) 2. 'The Wall', various artists, 11 July to 8 August 1987. (IMP/1/182) 3. 'Images of York', looks at issues that local photographers are addressing, 5 Septemeber to 17 October 1987; 'The British Rail War Memorial', John Greenwood, 5 September to 17 October 1987 (IMP/1/188); 'The Docklands Community Poster Project', 5 September to 17 October 1987. (IMP/1/184) 4. 'Images of the River Foss', The RIver Foss Photographic Group, 5 September to 17 October 1987 (IMP/1/187); '1984 - 40th Anniversarry of D-Day', David Townend, 5 September to 7 October 1987 (IMP/1/186); 'The Body Politic', 24 October to 4 December 1987. (IMP/1/185) Unknown photos and negatives; slides; general correspondence; ephemera; catalogues etc.

Archive Box 22

June-December 1987
1. Group show 'With Walls and Towers Grildled' aka Archive Yor. (IMP/1/173) 2. Group show 'Remnants of the Authentic'. (IMP/1/174) Plus eleven copies of the catalogue from 'With Walls and Towers Gridled', loose in box. Research paperwork , correspondence and in seperate box file four slides in plastic wallet.

Archive Box 20

July-October 1986
1. R Marris and J Hannavy 'Present Recollections' (IMP/1/153); group show 'Pencils of Light'. (IMP/1/152) 2. Group show 'Pencils of Light'. (IMP/1/152) 3. Group show 'A Forgotten Experiment' (IMP/1/154); M Chattle 'Interiors' (IMP/1/155); group show 'Profile of the Conscious Contract'. (IMP/1/156) 4. Group show 'Profile of the Conscious Contract'. (IMP/1/156) Boxes contain ephemera, correspondence, negatives, photographic prints.

Archive Box 17

January-June 1985
1. Aids conference 'Ecstatic Antibodies'. (IMP/1/208) 2. Aids conference 'Ecstatic Antibodies'. (IMP/1/208) 3. Aids conference 'Ecstatic Antibodies'. (IMP/1/208) V Sloane 'Marking The North', loose catalogue from 'Making the North' and loose book cover from 'Ecstatic Antibodies'. Correspondence, ephemera, photogrpahic material. (IMP/1/208 & IMP/1/209)

Archive Box 28

January-April 1990
1. 'Youth in Yorkshire'. (IMP/1/135) 2. F B Johnston 'What a Woman Can do With a Camera'. (IMP/1/136) 3. F B Johnston 'What a Woman Can do With a Camera'. (IMP/1/136) 4. G Godwin 'Rythms of Vision'; B Cohen 'Patricia'. (IMP/1/137) Ephemera, correspondence, photographic prints and in box file 4 negatives in plastic wallets.

Archive Box 15

June-October 1984
Group show 'The Mind'. Correspondence, ephemera, slides in plastic pockets, photographic prints. (IMP/1/189)

Archive Box 23

December 1987-January 1988
1. Susan Mieselas 'Kurdistan'. (IMP/1/260) 2. Jarma Puranen 'Curious Nature Spectator' (IMP/1/261) 3. Berthien van Manen 'Photographs' (IMP/1/262) 4. Didier Ben Loulou 'Fragments'. (IMP/1/263) 5. Public Arts Projects. (IMP/1/264) Two loose 'Kurdistan' booklets. Correspondence and ephemra, Box File 2 has photographic negatives and the details of a Royal Visit.

Archive Box 42

December 1997-October 1998
1. P Hamilton 'Living in the City' (IMP/1/140); group show 'Roads to Wigan Pier'. (IMP/1/139) 2. B Stephenson 'York Festival and Mystery Plays' (IMP/1/143); J Russell 'Light on Landscape' (IMP/1/145); group show 'The Birth of the Arc Royal. (IMP/1/142, IMP/1/144) 3. P Sutherland 'Written in the Fields' (IMP/1/141); archive 'Farming in Yorkshire to 1945'. (IMP/1/151) 4. National Portrait Exhibition; M Pearson 'City Go Nap as Quakers Halt Slump' (IMP/1/146); group show 'The Miner's World' (IMP/1/148); J Matthews 'Companera Sisters' (IMP/1/149); folder 'Written in the Fields' prints. (IMP/1/150) Boxes contain correspondence, ephemera, photographic prints.

Archive Box 16

August 1984-February 1985
1. Group show 'Indications'. (IMP/1/236) 2. Group show 'Retro' (IMP/1/237) 3. Jo Spence 'Matters of Concern'. (IMP/1/238) Correspondence, photographic materials, ephemera. Paperwork relating to a dispute concerning the Jo Spence exhibition.

Archive Box 37

October 1994-March 1995
1. Group show 'Songs of my People'. (IMP/1/225) 2. Group show 'Politicians'. A box of photographic prints by Keith Piper from 'Surveilances' installation. Correspondence including details of a court case in Box files 2 and 3. (IMP/1/226)

Archive Box 32

1. 'Rural', Liz Coombs, Miss Kruckenberg and Justin Greetham. (IMP/1/219) 2. 'Women to Women - The Apple of My Eye', Nancy Honey. (IMP/1/221) 3. Members, 'The Car'. ((IMP/1/220) 4. A Haughey and P Seawright 'Ireland'. (IMP/1/222) 5. Group show 'Manifold', loose file containing magazine and correspondence(IMP/1/224) 6. Group show 'Gulf TV'. Correspondence, ephemera, photographic material. (IMP/1/223)

Archive Box 31

March-November 1992
1. 'The Last Show'. Mixed material, 8 December 1991 to 2 February 1992. (IMP/1/217) 2. 'Bauhaus Photography', mixed material, 27 October 1991 to 1 Decemeber 1992. (IMP/1/215) 3. 'Steelwork 1991', exhibition touring from Photographers Gallery 22 November 1991 to 4 January 1992. (IMP/1/213) 4. 'Photo Video' multiple artists, 20 January 1991 to 14 February 1992. 'Photo Video', group show, 1992. (IMP/1/218) 5. 'Photo Video', group show, 1992. Press prints and other photos, exhibition ephemera, general correspondence, slides, video and floppy discs. (IMP/1/218)

Archive Box 30

October 1990-February 1992
1. Carolyn Jones 'Patients' (IMP/1/72); Roger Birch 'One Town's Farmers' (IMP/1/71); Jon Passmore 'Object and Observer' (IMP/1/70); Royston Jones 'Non-Equivalents'. 2. Peter Jennings 'Mystery Places' (IMP/1/75); Boyd and Evans 'American Photographs' (IMP/1/76); Peter Hatton 'Photo Collages'.(IMP/1/74) 3. John Havinden 'The Shape of Things to Come' (IMP/1/77); Edwin Blumenfield 'Through the Looking Glass'. (IMP/1/78) 4. John Greenwood 'Magic Moments'; Dave Rutter 'Dave Rutter' (IMP/1/79). All box files contain correspondence and photographic material.

Archive Box 8

January-October 1980
1. Charles Colquhain 'Photogrpahs' ((IMP/1/61); Fay Godwin 'Calder Valley' (IMP/1/60); 'Germany: The New Photography / Neue Sachuchtect' (IMP/1/62); 'Weegee New York / The Famous'. (IMP/1/63) 2. Andrew Yeadon 'Inside the City' (IMP/1/64); Brian Griffin 'Portraits of Our Time'. (IMP/1/65) 3. Cecil Beaton 'Cecil Beaton' (IMP/1/66); Bill Owens 'Suburbia and Other Photographs' (IMP/1/67); Humphrey Spender 'Worktown'. (IMP/1/68) 4. Peter Mitchell 'A New Refutation of the Viking: Space Mission'. (IMP/1/69) All boxes contain correspondence, leaflets, posters and photographic material.

Archive Box 7

April-December 1979
1. N Jaffee 'Inward Image' (IMP/1/101); P Fraser 'The Flower Bridge' (IMP/1/102); D East ' Shores of the Sahara' (IMP/1/103). 2. A Newnham 'Photographs' (IMP/1/104); D Milners 'Unfinished Lanscapes'. (IMP/1/105) 3. J Topham 'Memory Lane'. (IMP/1/106) 4. E Smith 'Record and Revelation' (IMP/1/107) All boxes contain correspondence, magazines, three with photocopied diary entiries. Alan Newnham press prints in plastic bag with main box (won't fit in box file).

Archive Box 11

September 1982-February 1983
1. York Photographic Competition (not a 1982 exhibition) (IMP/1/90); 'Lila' John Blakemore, 13 February to 20 to March 1982 (IMP/1/89); 'James Jarche - Press Picture Pioneer', James Jarche, 8 January to 6 February 1982 (IMP/1/88); 'Youth Unemployment in the West End of Newcastle', Tish Murtha, 24 November o 24 December 1981 (IMP/1/87); Jan Siegieda 'Spirit of My Country', 24 November to 24 December 1981. (IMP/1/86) 2. Two exhibitions 'David Smaldon' (IMP/1/94), 'Mary Cooper' (IMP/1/93), 1 May to 29 May 1982; 'Elizabeth Williams - Photographs 1975-1982', 13 February to 20 March 1982 (IMP/1/91); 'The Derwent', Nigel Inglis, Peter Mitchell and Martin Parr, March 1982. (IMP/1/92) 3. 'Images of India - A Festival of India Exhibition', 19th century photogrpahs of the sub-continent, 9 July to 7 August 1982 (IMP/1/97); 'Have a Nice Day', Patrick Ward, 5 June to 3 July 1982 (IMP/1/96); 'Bag Ladies' Jean-Marie Simon, 5 June to 3 July 1982. (IMP/1/95) 4. 'Portrait Photographs', David Butterworth, 9 July to 7 August 1982 (IMP/1/98); Julian Beam - A Life on the Road', Daniel Meadows, 14 August to 11 Septmeber 1982 (IMP/1/99); 'Space Between Real and Unreal Cities', Eimu Arino, 14 August to 11 September 1982 (IMP/1/100). All boxes contain press prints, correspondence, ephemera, posters, photographs, press clippings, negatives and original artwork.

Archive Box 10

November 1981-September 1982
1. Frank Meadow Sutcliffe exhibition; correspondence, 1 negative in envelope, 4th November to 24 December 1972; Dave Sample 'Northern Image', correpondence, February 1973; Graham Finlayson, 'Edited Version', 4th May - 9th June 1973 (IMP/1/4) 2. Cecil Beaton, photographs, catalogues, correpsondence, 29th July 1973. (IMP/1/5) 3. 'Fair and Favoured City', negatives, August 1973 (IMP/1/7); John Benton Harris 'New in Old...' press cutting, poster, 17th November - 22 December 1973 (IMP/1/6); Guardian Photographers, photos, leaflets, March 1974. (IMP/1/8) 4. 'When We Were Very Young. The Child in Early Photography', negatives in Ilford box, copy prints in A4 envelope and in file, 18 March - 26 April 1974. (IMP/1/9)

Archive Box 1

1972-1974-04
A Black and White silver gelatin photograph entitled "Battle of Albert, Troops Moving Up Through the Ruins of Fricourt During the Attack on Contalmaison (Captured by 23rd Division July 10)" by an unknown photographer. From the exhibition 'For King and Country' at The Impressions Gallery 1986.

Battle of Albert; The Ruins of Fricourt

1916-07-10
A black and white silver gelatin photograph entitled "Self-Portrait - 1978" taken by Brian Griffin, in 1976. Possibly from the Impressions Gallery exhibition "Portraits of Our Time", shown in 1979

Self-Portrait - 1978

1978
A Black and White silver gelatin photograph entitled "German Prisoners Arriving at the 'cage' Demancourt, September 15" by an unknown photographer. From the exhibition 'For King and Country' at The Impressions Gallery, 7th June to 12th July 1986

German Prisoners Arriving at the 'cage' Demancourt

1916-09-15
A black and white silver gelatin photograph entitled 'Warrior and Wife' by M.L. Moennick taken c. 1925, copyright Royal Geographic Society. From the Impressions Gallery exhibition 'The Globe', 15 July - 2 September 1989.

Warrior and Wife

1925
Black and white portrait of Cecil Day Lewis photographed by Bill Brandt in about 1941. Published in an article entitled 'Young Poets of Democracy' in 'Lilliput', December 1941. From the National Portrait Gallery Collection.

Cecil Day Lewis

1940-1941
A Black and White silver gelatin photograph entitled "Royal Engineers Signal Exchange in a Captured German Dugout Underneath Fricourt Chateau, September" by an unknown photographer, September 1916. From the exhibition 'For King and Country' at The Impressions Gallery, 7th June to 12th July 1986

Royal Engineers Signal Exchange in a Captured German Dugout

1916-09
A Black and White silver gelatin photograph entitled "Troops Watching Prisoners Passing After the Taking of Guillemont, September 28" by an unknown photographer. From the exhibition 'For King and Country' at The Impressions Gallery, 7th June to 12th July 1986

Troops Watching Prisoners, after the Taking of Guillemont

1916-09-28
An untitled colour photograph depicting a sheep taken by Tessa Bunney. From the Impressions Gallery exhibition 'Brilliant', 2000

Untitled