PHOTOGRAPHY
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Thank you to all those who have generously given permission for their photographs to be used on this website. Acknowledgements are as follows:
All the images of Pevsner and his diaries come from the Pevsner family collection and are reproduced with the family’s permission.
All the images of volumes of The Buildings of England and the roundels on their covers are used with the permission of Pevsner Architectural Guides.
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Internees stuffing palliasses with straw in Huyton internment camp, Liverpool - photo is copyright Getty Images.
Travelling for The Buildings of England
The image of the open door is used with the permission of Joep Roosen.
Pevsner perambulating
The images of Berwick rooftops, the ‘Foot passengers’ sign and West Street are all copyright David Tait and used with his permission.
The image of the worn steps is used by permission of imagesaurus.
A misty corner of Berwick (by permission of Cathie Tinn)
The Old Bridge, Berwick (by permission of Anne Gallacher)
Ravensdowne, Berwick (by permission of Trevor Weddell)
Pevsner and Betjeman
Rear view of the head of the statue of John Betjeman in St Pancras station (by permission of Carl Davis)
Morality and Architecture
The outstretched human figure from Vitruvius’ theories of beauty (by permission of the British Library)
Pevsner’s politics
The statues of the Margrave Eckhart and his wife Uta in Naumburg Cathedral (photo from AICT/Allan T. Kohl)
Thomas Mann (photo by Carl Van Vechten, used from Wikipedia under a Creative Commons licence)
Simplicissimus cartoon from the hyper-inflation period of the Weimar Republic showing Gutenberg’s press pouring money (in the public domain)
Senate House, London, home of the wartime Ministry of Information (photo: Secret Pilgrim)
Pevsner and Jewishness
A Star of David in stained glass from the Eldridge Street synagogue, New York (by permission of Gaby Gollub)
The cross and crown of thorns from Coventry Cathedral (Photo: rasok_19)
Pevsner and Englishness
Tracery from the north transept of St Mary’s Church, Witney (by permission of Martin Beek)
A carved wooden misericord from Holy Trinity Church, Stratford upon Avon (by permission of Christopher Levy)
One gallery of Sir John Soane’s Museum, London (by permission of Lewis K. Bush)
A rooftop view of Chatsworth House and gardens (by permission of James Booth)
Pevsner and the Victorians
All the images were taken by George P. Landow and Jacqueline Banerjee for VictorianWeb, except for the image of St George’s Church, Aubrey Walk, which is copyright Peter Jordan, licensed for reuse under a Creative Commons Licence
Pevsner’s pseudonyms
The photograph of the masquerade mask is used by permission of its sculptor, Jamie Santellano
Pevsner and 20th-century architecture
Chiswick Park tube station by Charles Holden, 1932. (Photo: copyright Chris Guy)
Royal Festival Hall, London, by LCC Architects’ Department, 1951 (Photo: open2.net/modernity)
Alton Estate, Roehampton, by LCC Architects’ Department, 1958-9. (Photo: open2.net/modernity)
Senate and Chamber of Deputies, Brasilia, Oscar Niemeyer, 1960. (Photo: Chris Diewald)
Sydney Opera House, Jorn Utzon, 1973. (Photo: John Dalkin)
Chapelle Notre Dame du Haut, Ronchamp, Le Corbusier, 1954.
St John's Abbey, Collegeville, Minnesota, Marcel Breuer, 1961. (Photo: maos)
Church of San Antonio de las Huertas, Mexico, Felix Candela, 1956. (Photo: Jim Saunders)
Liverpool Metropolitan Cathedral, Frederick Gibberd, 1967. (Photo: John Kennan)
Cambridge University History Library, James Stirling, 1968. (Photo: Steve Cadman)
University of East Anglia, Denys Lasdun, 1962-68. (Photo: Craig Butcher)
Pevsner’s allies and critics
His allies
Ernst Gombrich (Photo: copyright Yale University Press)
Geoffrey Grigson (Photo from www.poemhunter.com)
Alec Clifton-Taylor (Image from the episode of Six English Towns, Series 1, set in Richmond, Yorkshire – on YouTube)
His critics
John Harris (Photo: copyright Yale University Press)
Osbert Lancaster (Photo: www.literarynorfolk.co.uk )
Professor David Watkin (Photograph by Michael Clifford)
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