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Artist Statement:
I am searching for new
subjects and innovative ways
of expressing them. How the
subjects look within the frame
interests me. I want to make
beautiful photographs which
are balanced, simple,
surprising and more meaningful
than the collection of facts
the camera describes.
There are two main types of
photography ...
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Stuart Haden Biography:
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Age
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64
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| Gender |
Male
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| Status |
Married
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| Children |
2
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| Religion |
none |
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| Education |
Professional Degree |
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| Hobbies / Interests |
photography, architectural design, collage |
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| Favorite Artistic Medium |
Photography Silver Gelatin
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| Favorite Arthistory Movement |
Modernism - (1890 - 1940)
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| Favorite Visual Artist |
Frank Stella
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| Favorite Work of Art |
Farnsworth House
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| Biggest Artistic Inspiration |
Eugene Atget, who spent the last part of his life recording all that was beautiful in Paris and the environs of the Belle Epoch period from 1860 to 1900. He walked and carried a large, heavy full plate camera and tripod with glass negatives around and more or less spent forty years recording in sepia toned albumen prints all of quality in trees, buildings, people an transport. |
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| Why Did You Become An Artist |
I was born an artist. That is I have always been creative from building with mud and bricks to drawing with pencils and crayons, painting with brushes and rollers, gluing collages, designing buildings, furniture and boats and making a photograph. It is in my mind, heart and soul. I am driven by my need to make something beautiful not by the need to make money. |
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| Your Personal Biography |
Stuart Haden was born in 1942 in Aberdeen, Scotland. He won the Art Prize at St. Christopher's Preparatory School in Wembley Park and the Art Prize at the John Lyon School, Harrow on the Hill.
After school he studied at the Hammersmith College of Art and Building, from 1961 to 1964, and the Architectural Association from 1964 to 1970. He invented and sold "The Rat Race" board game to British Publishing Corporation in 1969. From 1973 to 1977 he taught architectural design at the Mackintosh School, Glasgow School of Art, and then at the University of Texas in Austin from 1977 to 1979. While in Austin, he began to concentrate on photography, studying under Garry Winogrand. Four of his colour photographs received an Honourable Mention in the 12th National Photographic Competition in 1979, judged by William Eggleston. He also received an Honourable Mention in the Camden Society of Architects Photographic Competition 1984, judged by Fay Godwin, John Donat and Leonard Manasseh, for five black & white photographs.
Haden has had nine group shows and 11 solo exhibitions including solo exhibitions at The Third Eye, Glasgow in 1981 and The Photographer's Gallery, London in 1983. He was elected Fellow of the Society of Architectural and Industrial Illustrators in 1985.
He received an Arts Council Grant for documenting the environment and people of the Borough of Broxbourne. The work was shown in the Summer Journey 2005 Travelling Exhibition at the Lowewood Museum and other venues.
In 2005 Haden contributed fifty seven photographs to "Hertfordshire A-Z" by Pamela Shields, ISBN 0-7509-4250-9, published by Sutton Publishing Limited.
In May 2005, Stuart was featured in an atricle for the BBC about his photography and Summer Journey project for the Lowewood Museum.
In January 2007, he won a competition in Noticias, a Latin American London based newspaper for a black and white photograph of two boys on motorbikes in Cartago, Colombia.
He continues to photograph whilst earning a living designing houses and extensions. He uses a forty year old film camera.
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