Serena Wadham - Box 1 - Self-portraits & Documents
Miscellaneous
<p>Self-portraits of SW - in some cases done to test equipment - and interior views of her flat at 5, Noel Road, Islington.</p>
<p><span>Brown A4 envelope 1/1 marked 'Shots from my window (pre-Zone System tests), containing views from 5, Noel Rd to test various lenses; late 1970s.</span> </p>
<p><span>Yellow folder I/2 containing a selection of miscellaneous documents and personal photos.</span></p>
<p><span>Brown A4 envelope marked I/3, postmarked Nov. 1975 marked 'Patricia Frischer's Choice' and containing 10 of SW's prints, mostly London scenes, including 1 in colour.</span></p>
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Serena Wadham - Box 2 - Orthodox Jewish Education
One of Serena Wadham's earliest non-Cornish assignments was a study of Jewish education, for which she took numerous pictures, evidently in May-June 1965, at yeshivas in Gateshead and Sunderland, and at the Hasmonean Grammar School and other schools in North London. There is a print of Prime Minister Harold Wilson attending a formal Jewish occasion.
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Serena Wadham - Box 3 - Music & Theatre
Music
Theatre
Having originally trained as a professional musician, Serena Wadham retained a lifelong interest in music and undertook numerous related assignments, involving personalities such as Yehudi Menuhin, Elizabeth Lutyens, Gwyneth Jones, Richard Rodney Bennett, Priaulx Rainier, Mikis Theodorakis and others.
Included also are photos of various London stage productions; and the Wells Cathedral School Orchestra rehearsing at the Wigmore Hall.
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Serena Wadham - Box 4 - London Subjects (1)
London
<p>Urban views, mainly in Islington and other parts of North London, many taken to test cameras or lenses. </p>
<p><span>Brown folder 4/1 of Islington views, with selection of local government publications, late 1970s. Also shots of St Paul's, railway installations and NE industrial outskirts, &c, mostly c. 1975-87.</span></p>
<p><span>Brown folder 4/2 of Islington views, c. late 1970s.</span></p>
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Serena Wadham - Box 5 - London Subjects (2)
London
Victoria Station (1965); Hampstead Heath: Ladies' Pond (1974), views and tree studies (1976); campaign in support of Charlie Welsh and his animals at Corrall Rd, Islington (c. 1977).
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Serena Wadham - Box 6 - London Subjects (3)
London
City of London, views and street scenes; the Barbican; some Islington scenes. Miscellaneous street scenes, café interiors &c, mostly Islington. 1970s-80s.
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Serena Wadham - Box 7 - London Subjects (4)
London
North London architectural views and street scenes, mostly late 1970s-80s.
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Serena Wadham - Box 8 - Political Subjects
Photos of squats and occupations from late 1960s, including Guildford School of Art, University of London Union (Jan. 1969), Hornsey College (Jan. 1969); also rallies and demonstrations by the National Front, the Monday Club (May 1970), CND, anti-Vietnam (including the Grosvenor Square disturbances of March 1968), pro-Biafra and anti-apartheid campaigners and Belfast peace women; also members of the London Anarchist Group.
Yellow A4 box of prints of squats, occupations and demos from late 1960s, some duplicating material in Box 8; images of Jesse Jackson, Pat Arrowsmith et al.
Blue card folder marked 'Basques' containing photographs and copies of a ts. article by SW relating to a trip to the Basque Country of Spain in late 1970, plus British and Spanish press material.
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Serena Wadham - Box 9 - Women (1)
Women
<p>From the late 1960s onwards Serena Wadham became increasingly interested in feminism and women's issues, and the archive contains many pictures of political meetings and demonstrations, portraits of feminist personalities, and images of women at work, at home, or engaged in leisure activities. Some were part of regular assignments, others were connected with a long-cherished - but unrealized - book project on women in contemporary society.</p>
<p><span>Green folder 9/1 containing portraits of prominent women, including Barbara Hepworth, Germaine Greer, Elizabeth Lutyens, Pat Arrowsmith, Kate Millett, Judy Chicago, Indira Gandhi and Lisbet Holme; also street and sporting scenes, some nudes and images of friends; and a series of studies of mannequins.</span></p>
<p><span>Brown A4 envelope 9/2 marked 'Lesbian Issues' and containing negatives, contact sheets, prints and some written material relating to SW's lesbian interests, including correspondence with the American journal <em>The Ladder</em>. Mostly mid-1960s.</span></p>
<p><span>Plastic envelope 9/3 containing 2 portraits of Lyn Redgrave. </span></p>
<p><span>Brown folder 9/4 marked 'Judy Chicago' containing photographs and printed material relating to the American artist and her installation <em>The Dinner Party</em>, exhibited in Edinburgh and London 1984-5; also an illustrated <em>Daily Telegraph </em>article of 7 Jan 1983 by Serena Wadham and other material on Chicago's work <em>The Birth Project</em>, including an ms card from the artist.</span></p>
<p><span>Brown folder 9/5 marked 'Gay Lib' containing typed and cyclostyled documents on the Gay Liberation Front, early 1972.</span></p>
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Serena Wadham - Box 10 - Women (2)
Women
<p><span>Brown folder 10/1 marked 'Changing roles of women' containing a large selection of pictures of women doing various kinds of factory and transport work; also sporting activities (rowing, riding, karate); and the composer Thea Musgrave and film-maker Midge McKenzie at work.</span></p>
<p><span>Brown folder 10/2 marked 'Self-help - women's clinics'. It includes correspondence and pamphlets relating to the activities of the Florida-based Feminist Women's Health Center and its British associates, c. 1973-6; also photographs of 'self-help' cervical examinations taken by SW.</span></p>
<p><span>Brown folder 10/3 marked 'Women's Lib - Pix', with pictures of demonstrations and meetings on gender-equality and gay liberation issues. Includes images of Germaine Greer, Audrey Wise, Pat Arrowsmith and other personalities.</span></p>
<p><span>Brown folder 10/4: further images of women, at work and elsewhere.</span></p>
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Serena Wadham - Box 11 - Women (3)
Women
<p><span>Brown folder 11/1 marked 'Motorcycles/motorcyclists'. SW's mainly female biking friends and associates - Frances Popley, Bea Hawkins et al - and their equipment; cuttings, and a letter from Bea Hawkins 15 Feb. 1979. The photographs are mainly late 1970s/early 80s.</span></p>
<p><span>Brown folder 11/2 marked 'Women's Demos etc'. Various demos involving gender equality, late 1960s/early 70s; images of Shirley Williams, Audrey Wise, Pat Arrowsmith et al.</span></p>
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Serena Wadham - Box 12 - Children etc.
Children
<p><span>Brown envelope 12/1 marked 'School Children N. London', 1960s/70s.</span></p>
<p><span>Brown folder 12/2 marked 'Home-Workers'. Printed material and a few photos on this subject, c. 1977.</span></p>
<p><span>Brown folder 12/3 marked 'Male-Female': miscellaneous interactions between male and female adults and children in various settings, including the street, playgrounds, Speaker's Corner, and interiors including Roger Hilton's cottage.</span></p>
<p>Grey folder 12/4 marked 'Fathers'. A draft article by SW, printed material, and photographs for a 1984 project on three fathers caring for their children, including the painter David Redfern.</p>
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Serena Wadham - Box 13 - Alternative
Alternative
Culture
<p><span>Brown folder 13/1 marked Alternative/Tammo de Jongh/Demos. Prints and contact sheets relating to the Collingwood family at their base near Camberley, and their mystico-erotic activities with personalities such as the artist/cosmologist Tammo de Jongh, Don Dewar and Richard Gardner. Late 1960s.</span></p>
<p>Brown folder 13/2 marked 'Mariella Novotny', containing prints, cuttings and a draft article about the 'naked novelist', 1972.</p>
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Serena Wadham - Box 14 - Miscellaneous projects
<p><span>Brown folder 14/1A marked 'Hackney Marshes', containing river- and marsh-landscapes probably done in connection with SW's mid-70s river pollution project; but also many miscellaneous items, including street scenes, portrait studies and test shots, from the 1960s to the 80s.</span></p>
<p><span>Blue folder 14/1B containing miscellaneous prints, mainly landscapes in SE England.</span></p>
<p><span>Brown folder 14/2: studies of animals and birds.</span></p>
<p><span>Brown A3 envelope 14/3 marked 'St James's Pentonville Rd': prints of the derelict church, and a letter of 1 Dec. 1983 from Cornerstone Managements Ltd about the planned reconstruction.</span></p>
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Serena Wadham - Box 15A - Personal and experimental (1)
<p><span>Brown folder 15/1 marked 'Prints of collages Ap. 78', containing various photo-collages done by SW, some mounted, and prints pertaining to them.</span></p>
<p><span>Brown A4 paper bag 15/2 marked 'Calibration prints 1980': mainly London street scenes, with some interiors; some annotated on the back with filtration and/or development data.</span></p>
<p><span>White transparent A4 bag 15/3 marked 'Kaleidopix', containing prints combined with a kaleidoscopic lens.</span></p>
<p><span>Brown folder 15/4 marked 'Manipulations - Cut-outs': photo-collages and related prints, including some portraits (e.g. Mariella Novotny) and nudes.</span></p>
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Serena Wadham - Box 15B - Personal and experimental (2)
<p><span>Brown folder 15/5 containing (mostly) coloured computer prints, loose or in plastic wallets, some dated; mid-1990s and 2000-1.</span> </p>
<p><span>Plastic wallet 15/6 containing miscellaneous b/w prints of London scenes, SW's flat and a few nude studies; also test shots.</span></p>
<p><span>Brown folder 15/7 containing b/w prints, mostly Noel Rd interiors, and a packet of wedding photos, some mounted.</span></p>
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Serena Wadham - Box 16 - Cornwall (1)
Torrey Canyon
<p><span>Brown cardboard envelope 16/1 marked 'St Ives/Women Artists' contains photographs and other material on Barbara Hepworth (1964) and Janet Leach (1984), and includes an ms. card from Hepworth and a draft article, and notes for it, on Leach corrected by the latter.</span></p>
<p>Red plastic folder containing photos of oiled birds and the clean-up following the <em>Torrey Canyon</em> disaster in March 1967.</p>
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Serena Wadham - Box 17 - Cornwall (2)
<p><span>Blue folder 17/1 containing photos and typed notes on the possible use of Reskajeage Quarry near St Ives for the storage of nuclear waste in 1987.</span></p>
<p>Also cuttings and photographic prints, some in envelopes, some mounted, relating to SW's participation in the campaign against Peter de Savary's proposed residential development in Hayle, 1990-1.</p>
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Serena Wadham - Box 18 - Cornwall (3)
Loose b/w prints, some mounted, of farming scenes, standing stones, views &c in West Penwith.
Yellow folder 18/1 with scenes and views at and around Georgia, Nancledra.
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Serena Wadham - Archival Box I - Contact Sheets and Prints
<p>Groups of mostly black-and-white 35 mm contact sheets, and glossy work-prints, contained in Kodak, Ilford or Agfa photographic-paper boxes. Also a <span>brown cardboard file-box </span>containing an alphabetical index of 6 x 4 cards listing SW's photographic subjects, by topic, place and person. Numerical references are to negatives and contact-sheets.</p>
<p><span>I/A (Agfa): contact-sheets and prints relating to a project on Orthodox Jews, done in May-June) 1965, when SW was living at 62, Ellington St, N7. Includes images of <em>yeshivas </em>in Gateshead and Sunderland, the Avigdor Primary School and Hasmonean Grammar School in London, and Jewish children playing. (See also Box 2).</span></p>
<p><span>I/B (Kodak), marked 'Packington': mostly prints of the buildings and residents of the new Packington estate in Islington. Probably early 1970s.</span></p>
<p><span>I/C (Agfa), marked 'Tests': mostly London scenes, including Hampstead Heath, Islington (with views from SW's flat in Noel Rd), and shots made to test lenses and equipment. Mid-1970s-mid-80s.</span> </p>
<p><span>I/D (Ilford), marked 'Prints, Summer-October 1964, Contact nos. -P 157: prints of people singly and in groups, including the famous Jay Twins, Katherine and Helen.</span></p>
<p><span>I/E (Kodak), marked 'Peace News; CND': prints of demonstrations relating to Vietnam, Biafra, apartheid &c; also squats and occupations (LSE, Hornsey). C.1968-9. (See also Box 8).</span></p>
<p><span>I/F (Kodak), marked 'Popham Prints': social-documentary street scenes around Popham St, Islington, many featuring children. Late 1960s?</span></p>
<p><span>I/G (Ilford), marked 'Prints L576...': miscellaneous scenes and portraits, including shots of BBC location filming, some stage scenes (Michael Rosen's <em>Backbone </em>at the Royal Court), and a picture of the LSO performing. C. late 1960s, when SW was resident at 22 Ailsa Rd, Twickenham.</span></p>
<p><span>I/H (Ilford): colour prints in various formats inscribed with detailed test data, 1986. Includes street scenes, still lifes and portraits (Mary Addington and others), and an A4 self-portrait of SW and two young friends with a motorbike in Noel Rd.</span></p>
<p>I/i (Kodak), marked 'Nudes': studies in various formats (with some cut-outs) of female subjects, some nude or semi-nude, and one nude male. Includes a nude study of Mariella Novotny.</p>
<p><span>I/J (Ilford), marked 'Contact Prints London'</span> : miscellaneous contact sheets, both 35 mm and roll-film formats, including interiors of SW's flat, nature studies, nudes, graffiti and building sites, among others. Mostly mid-1970s.</p>
<p><span>I/K (Ilford), marked 'Men': prints of men in various settings (cafes, sports &c), and a number of (unidentified) portrait studies. C. mid-1970s.</span></p>
<p><span>I/L (Kodak), marked 'Immigrant in London, Prints': extensive selection, in various formats, of pictures of (mostly Afro-Caribbean) immigrants in a range of settings, public, occupational and private, some with detailed captions. Includes a portrait of Michael X and shots of Oswald Mosley addressing a meeting at Islington Town Hall.</span></p>
<p><span>I/M (Kodak), marked 'Political Rally': prints mainly of political subjects, squats &c, c. late 1960s.</span></p>
<p><span>I/N (Gevaert): miscellaneous prints of people and landscapes, including some Cornish.</span></p>
<p><span>I/O (Ilford), marked 'Colour Prints, 1994): A4 format prints of SW's experimental computer images, various titles.</span></p>
<p><span>I/P (Ilford), marked 'Colour Prints, 1995: more experimental colour prints. </span></p>
<p><span>I/Q, yellow card folder marked 'Wild Flowers': large colour prints of flowers, c. 1989-90.: </span></p>
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