Mark Haworth-Booth OBE (born 20 August 1944) is a British academic and historian of photography. He was a curator at the Victoria & Albert Museum in London from 1970 to 2004.^[1]

Family

Hull Bank House, East Riding Yorks

His family on his father’s side were minor gentry seated at Hull Bank House, Kingston upon Hull Yorkshire, now Haworth Hall. One of his forebears married the sister of the poet and MP for Hull, Andrew Marvell.^[2]

Early life and education

Haworth-Booth was the youngest son of Alderman Antony Haworth-Booth, chairman of East Sussex County Council, and Eva Holm, only daughter of the Danish stage and film actress Astrid Holm and her husband Holger Holm, ballet dancer and film actor.

He was educated at Brighton College before going up to Clare College, Cambridge to read English literature, before undertaking postgraduate studies in Art history at the University of Edinburgh and (much later) creative writing at Exeter (MA with Distinction).

Work

Haworth-Booth started his career at the Manchester Art Gallery in 1969 and worked at the Victoria and Albert Museum from 1970 to 2004, becoming Senior Curator of Photographs and played a major role in building up its collection of photography. He has curated many exhibitions, including Photography: An Independent Art (1997),^[3] and Things: A Spectrum of Photography, 1850–2001 (2004).^[1] The last photography exhibition he curated, with the Galerie nationale du Jeu de Paume in Paris and the National Portrait Gallery, London, was a centenary retrospective of the pioneering photographer Camille Silvy (1834–1910). It was titled Camille Silvy. Photographer of Modern Life 1834–1910 and exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in 2010.^[4] He researched the Silvy Exhibition catalogue at the J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles, as a Museum Scholar in 2008.^[5]

Inaugural Visiting Professor of Photography at the University of the Arts London (2002–2009),^[6] he acted as a consultant on the BBC television series The Genius of Photography, aired in 2007 and again in 2009.^[7]

Since retiring from most photographic activity he has focused on environmental campaigning and writing. He has published poems in national magazines since 1986, won awards and published two books of poems: Wild Track (2005) and Wild is the Wind (with Tessa Traeger’s photographs, 2017).

Personal life

Haworth-Booth lives in North Devon with his wife Rosie (née Miles), whom he married in 1979. Rosemary Miles (her professional name) made many important acquisitions of BAME printmakers for the V&A collection and served as the chair of Autograph, the Association of Black Photographers. They have two daughters.

Honours

OBE insignia

• 2005: OBE, for "services to museums".

Publications

• Mark Haworth-Booth (1992), Camille Silvy: River Scene, France, Getty Publications, ISBN 978-0-89236-205-9
• Haworth-Booth, Mark; Aperture Foundation (1994), Metamorphoses : photography in the electronic age (1st ed.), Aperture Foundation, ISBN 978-0-89381-602-5
• Arnatt, Keith; Haworth-Booth, Mark; Aperture Foundation (1988), British photography : towards a bigger picture, Aperture, ISBN 978-0-89381-340-6
• Bernard, Bruce; Bernard, Bruce, (artist.); Haworth-Booth, Mark, (writer of commentaries,); Phaidon Press, (publisher.) (25 October 2002), One hundred photographs : a collection by Bruce Bernard, Phaidon Press (published 2002), ISBN 978-0-7148-4278-3{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Haworth-Booth, Mark; McCullin, Don, 1935- (1983), Donald McCullin, Collins, ISBN 978-0-00-411935-9{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• Strand, Paul; Haworth-Booth, Mark (1997). Paul Strand. Aperture (published 1987). ISBN 978-0-89381-746-6.
• Victoria and Albert Museum. Department of Prints and Drawings; Strong, Roy, 1935-; Haworth-Booth, Mark (1981). Old and modern masters of photography. H.M.S.O. ISBN 978-0-11-290362-8.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• Victoria & Albert Museum; Haworth-Booth, Mark (1997). Photography, an independent art : photographs from the Victoria and Albert Museum 1839-1996. V & A Publications. ISBN 978-1-85177-204-9.
• Yoneda, Tomoko; Haworth-Booth, Mark; Iizawa, Kōtarō (2004). Between visible. Nazraeli Press in association with JGS. ISBN 978-1-59005-045-3.
• Haworth-Booth, Mark; Folio Society (London, England) (2006). The Folio Society book of the 100 greatest photographs. Folio Society. Retrieved 12 February 2019.
• Haworth-Booth, Mark; Miller, Lee, 1907-1977; Victoria and Albert Museum (January 2007). The art of Lee Miller (Hardback ed.). V&A (published 2007). ISBN 978-0-300-12375-3.{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• Baltz, Lewis; Haworth-Booth, Mark (1986). San Quentin Point (1st ed.). Aperture. ISBN 978-0-89381-247-8.
• Haworth-Booth, Mark; Victoria and Albert Museum (2004). Things : a spectrum of photography 1850-2001. Jonathan Cape in association with the Victoria & Albert Museum. ISBN 978-0-224-07289-2.
• Mellor, David; Brandt, Bill; Haworth-Booth, Mark; Philadelphia Museum of Art (1985). Bill Brandt, behind the camera : photographs, 1928-1983. Aperture. ISBN 978-0-89381-191-4.
• Coe, Brian; Haworth-Booth, Mark; Victoria and Albert Museum (1983). A guide to early photographic processes. Victoria & Albert Museum. ISBN 978-0-903696-23-4.
• Brandt, Bill (1977). Shadow of light : photographs ([New] / introductions by Cyril Connolly and Mark Haworth-Booth ed.). Gordon Fraser Gallery. ISBN 978-0-900406-65-2.
• Brandt, Bill; Haworth-Booth, Mark; Bill Brandt Archive (2004). Brandt nudes : a new perspective (Edition limited to 1000 copies of which numbers 1-100 include a platinum print ed.). Bill Brandt Archive. ISBN 978-0-9547048-0-3.
• Victoria & Albert Museum; Aperture, Inc; Philadelphia Museum of Art (1984). Haworth-Booth, Mark (ed.). The Golden age of British photography, 1839-1900 : photographs from the Victoria and Albert Museum, London, with selections from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Royal Archives, Windsor Castle, the Royal Photographic Society, Bath, Science Museum, London, Scottish National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh. Aperture in association with the Victoria and Albert Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art ; New York : Distributed in the U.S. by Viking Penguin. ISBN 978-0-89381-145-7.
• Haworth-Booth, Mark, (curator.); Polaroid Corporation (1988), Hitchcock, Barbara (ed.), Selections 4 : the International Polaroid Collection, Polaroid Corporation, ISBN 978-0-9616459-2-2{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Arnatt, Keith; Rose, Andrea; Haworth-Booth, Mark; British Council (1992), One foot has not yet reached the next street, The British Council, ISBN 978-0-86355-144-4
• Moffat, Curtis; Barnes, Martin, 1971-, (editor.); Haworth-Booth, Mark, (writer of supplementary textual content.); Stevenson, James, (writer of supplementary textual content.) (2016), Curtis Moffat : silver society : experimental photography and design, 1923-1935 (First ed.), Göttingen, Germany Steidl London V&A Museum, ISBN 978-3-95829-027-3 {{citation}}: |author2= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• Gill, Stephen; Haworth-Booth, Mark; Victoria Miro Gallery (2005), Invisible (1st ed.), Nobody, ISBN 978-0-9549405-0-8
• Haworth-Booth, Mark; Kauffer, E. McKnight (Edward McKnight), 1890-1954 (1979), E. McKnight Kauffer : a designer and his public, Gordon Fraser Gallery, ISBN 978-0-86092-034-2{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• Martin, Paul; Haworth-Booth, Mark (1988), A Yarmouth holiday, Nishen, ISBN 978-1-85378-104-9
• Goldblatt, David; Haworth-Booth, Mark; Danelzik-Brüggemann, Christoph; Stevenson, Michael, 1966- (2005), David Goldblatt : South African : intersections, Prestel, ISBN 978-3-7913-3247-5{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• Haworth-Booth, Mark; Young, Michael; British Press Photographers' Association (1988), Assignments 2 : the British Press Photographers' Association yearbook, Phaidon Press, ISBN 978-0-7148-2563-2
• Barnes, Martin; Haworth-Booth, Mark; Canon Photography Gallery (Victoria and Albert Museum) (2001), Benjamin Brecknell Turner : rural England through a Victorian lens, V&A Publications, ISBN 978-1-85177-335-0
• Derges, Susan; Haworth-Booth, Mark; Cotton, Charlotte; Fraenkel Gallery; James Danziger Gallery (1999), Susan Derges : woman thinking river, Fraenkel Gallery ; New York : Danziger Gallery, ISBN 978-1-881337-06-5
• Haworth-Booth, Mark; Brandt, Bill; Victoria and Albert Museum (1975), The Land : twentieth century landscape photographs, Gordon Fraser Gallery, ISBN 978-0-900406-71-3
• Phillips, Sandra S; Haworth-Booth, Mark; Squiers, Carol, 1948-; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (1997), Police pictures : the photograph as evidence, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, ISBN 978-0-8118-1984-8{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• Haworth-Booth, Mark; Victoria and Albert Museum (1989), Photography now, Dirk Nishen in association with the Victoria & Albert Museum, ISBN 978-1-85378-012-7
• Haworth-Booth, Mark; Centre national de la photographie (France) (1991), The Origins of British photography, Thames and Hudson, ISBN 978-0-500-41082-0
• Brandt, Bill; Haworth-Booth, Mark (1951), Literary Britain (New ed.), Aperture (published 1986), ISBN 978-0-905209-66-1
• Goldblatt, David; Stevenson, Michael, (writer of added commentary.); Haworth-Booth, Mark, (contributor.) (2014), Regarding intersections (First revised Steidl ed.), Steidl, ISBN 978-3-86930-714-5 {{citation}}: |author3= has generic name (help)CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Bonnell, Sian; Gooding, Mel; Haworth-Booth, Mark; Ffotogallery; Hirschl Contemporary Art (2004), Sian Bonnell : From an Elsewhere Unknown, Ffotogallery [and] Hirschl Contemporary Art, ISBN 978-1-872771-51-9
• Haworth-Booth, Mark; Scherf, Jone Elissa; St. Andrews, George; Frans Halsmuseum (2001), Making your dreams come true : young British photography, Hatje Cantz Verlag, ISBN 978-3-7757-1119-7
• Haworth-Booth, Mark; Weston, Edward, 1886-1958; Hayward Gallery (1977), Edward Weston, Arts Council, ISBN 978-0-7287-0126-7{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• Dolron, Desiree; Haworth-Booth, Mark; Assouline, Pierre; Institut néerlandais (Paris, France) (2006), Desiree Dolron : exaltation, gaze, xteriors, Éditions Xavier Barral : Institut néerlandais, ISBN 978-2-915173-15-4
• Pauli, Lori; Haworth-Booth, Mark; Torosian, Michael, 1952-; Baker, Kenneth, 1946-; Burtynsky, Edward, 1955-; National Gallery of Canada (2003), Manufactured landscapes : the photographs of Edward Burtynsky, National Gallery of Canada in association with Yale University Press, ISBN 978-0-300-09943-0{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• Cohen, Morton N. (Morton Norton); Carroll, Lewis, 1832-1898; Flukinger, Roy, 1947-; Haworth-Booth, Mark; Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center (1998), Reflections in a looking glass : a centennial celebration of Lewis Carroll, photographer (1st ed.), Aperture Foundation, ISBN 978-0-89381-796-1{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• Chadwick, Helen; Warner, Marina, 1946-; Buck, Louisa; Mellor, David; Haworth-Booth, Mark; Kunsthallen (Brandts klædefabrik); Portfolio Gallery (Edinburgh, Scotland) (1996), Stilled lives : Helen Chadwick, Portfolio Gallery ; Odense, Denmark : Kunsthallen Brandts klædefabrik, ISBN 978-0-9520608-3-3{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link) CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
• Haworth-Booth, Mark; McCauley, Anne; Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute; Victoria and Albert Museum (1998), The museum & the photograph : collecting photography at the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1853-1900, Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, ISBN 978-0-931102-40-0
• Hockney, David; Hockney, David; Haworth-Booth, Mark; Arts Council of Great Britain; Hayward Gallery (1983), Hockney's photographs, Arts Council of Great Britain, ISBN 978-0-7287-0382-7
• Hoppé, E. O. (Emil Otto); Haworth-Booth, Mark; Michael Hoppen Photography (Gallery) (2006), Hoppé's London (Limited ed.), Guiding Light, ISBN 978-0-9551863-0-1
• Bohm, Dorothy; Haworth-Booth, Mark; Bohm-Duchen, Monica; Royal Photographic Society of Great Britain (1998), Walls and windows, Lund Humphries, ISBN 978-0-85331-718-0
• Bradford, Richard; Haworth-Booth, Mark, (writer of foreword.) (26 October 2015), The importance of elsewhere : Philip Larkin's photographs, Frances Lincoln Limited (published 2015), ISBN 978-0-7112-3631-8{{citation}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
• Davidson, Bruce (2005), England/ Scotland, 1960 (1st ed.), Steidl ; London : Thames & Hudson [distributor], ISBN 978-3-86521-127-9
• Brandt, Bill (1977), Ombre de lumière : photographies, Chêne, retrieved 12 February 2019

Collections

Haworth-Booth's work is held in the following permanent collection:

• National Portrait Gallery, London: 18 Polaroid prints (as of June 2020)^[13]

See also

• Adrian Hardy Haworth

Arms

References

External links

• Official website