For many years, Francis Goodman’s archive of negatives was held in store awaiting rediscovery and staff research time. We knew the collection contained portraits of a young Lucian Freud and other key twentieth-century figures including Henry Moore and Ian Fleming, but much of the archive was unlabelled and mixed with Goodman’s travel work. However, the possibility of staging a mini retrospective to mark the centenary of Goodman’s birth allowed me to find out more about the life and work of this photographer whose name has since been largely forgotten.…
By
Constantia Nicolaides, Assistant Curator, Photographs (Content and Interpretation)
21 August 2013
