Collection GB 0097 SURVIVAL - Survival Programmes: Exit Photography Group (Nicholas Battye/Chris Steele-Perkins/Paul Trevor)

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Reference code

GB 0097 SURVIVAL

Title

Survival Programmes: Exit Photography Group (Nicholas Battye/Chris Steele-Perkins/Paul Trevor)

Date(s)

  • 1973-2006 (Creation)

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Collection

Extent and medium

22 boxes

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Name of creator

Biographical history

'Survival Programmes' was a Gulbenkian funded project to document inner city environments and lives in the later 1970s. The original photographs were used in a travelling exhibition, and are kept by the Side Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne. A book based on the project, Survival Programmes: in Britain's Inner Cities by the Exit Photography Group (Nicholas Battye/Chris Steele-Perkins/Paul Trevor) was published in 1982.

Archival history

GB 0097 SURVIVAL 1973-2006 Collection 22 boxes Exit Photography Group

'Survival Programmes' was a Gulbenkian funded project to document inner city environments and lives in the later 1970s. The original photographs were used in a travelling exhibition, and are kept by the Side Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne. A book based on the project, Survival Programmes: in Britain's Inner Cities by the Exit Photography Group (Nicholas Battye/Chris Steele-Perkins/Paul Trevor) was published in 1982.

Deposited by Paul Trevor.

Survival Programmes comprises photographs (all black and white), interview transcripts, drafts and other materials relating to the book Survival Programmes by the Exit Photography Group (Nicholas Battye/Chris Steele-Perkins/Paul Trevor). The photographs and interviews were made between 1974 and 1979, and record life in Britain's inner urban areas in the 1970s.

Section 1: Administration files and correspondence;

Section 2: Processing of images;

Section 3: Processing of interview transcripts;

Section 4: Producing other texts for book;

Section 5: Proofs;

Section 6: Survival programmes book and publicity regarding the project.

Open

No material may be published without the prior permission of both the copyright holder and the Library. All applications for publication must be made to the Archivist in the first instance, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user.

English

Detailed catalogue available online.

Sources: Copied from LSE Archives CALM database by Anna Towlson.

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Feb 2008 Exit Photography Group Sociology Social policy Social problems Poverty Urban development Urban sociology Europe Western Europe UK Survival Programmes London England

Immediate source of acquisition or transfer

Deposited by Paul Trevor.

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Scope and content

Survival Programmes comprises photographs (all black and white), interview transcripts, drafts and other materials relating to the book Survival Programmes by the Exit Photography Group (Nicholas Battye/Chris Steele-Perkins/Paul Trevor). The photographs and interviews were made between 1974 and 1979, and record life in Britain's inner urban areas in the 1970s.

Appraisal, destruction and scheduling

Accruals

System of arrangement

Section 1: Administration files and correspondence;

Section 2: Processing of images;

Section 3: Processing of interview transcripts;

Section 4: Producing other texts for book;

Section 5: Proofs;

Section 6: Survival programmes book and publicity regarding the project.

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Conditions governing access

Open

Conditions governing reproduction

No material may be published without the prior permission of both the copyright holder and the Library. All applications for publication must be made to the Archivist in the first instance, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user.

Language of material

  • English

Script of material

  • Latin

Language and script notes

English

Physical characteristics and technical requirements

Finding aids

Detailed catalogue available online.

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Institution identifier

British Library of Political and Economic Science

Rules and/or conventions used

Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

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Language(s)

  • English

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