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Title
Impressions Gallery Archive
Reference
IMP
Production date
01-01-1972 - 01-12-2005

Creator

Impressions Gallery Biography Biography
Impressions Gallery is an independent and not-for-profit contemporary photography gallery space in Bradford, England. The gallery was founded by Val Williams and husband Andrew Sproxton in November 1972, opening in York with two exhibitions, Butlin's by the Sea by Martin Parr and Daniel Meadows (its first exhibition), and Whitby by Frank Meadow Sutcliffe. In 1976 the gallery moved to Colliergate in York, then moved again to nearby Castlegate in York in 1992. In 2007 the gallery moved to City Park, Bradford. The gallery is host to a temporary exhibitions programme with on average six exhibitions each year, often solo retrospective shows of mid-career photographers, and also some group shows. The gallery also contains a bookshop and publishes its own books and catalogues, often to accompany its exhibitions, either by itself or in association with others such as Dewi Lewis Publishing and Photoworks.

Scope and Content
This collection covers the development of the gallery's exhibition programme from 1972 until 2005. The exhibition archive includes research and development files, correspondence, photographs, posters, fliers, catalogues and promotional materials relating to the gallery's exhibition programme. The archive also includes a sizeable print collection of around 2,000 photographic prints from exhibitions.
Extent
Approximately 17,000 individual items incorporating 2,000 fine art and contemporary photographs, as well as a paper-based archive incorporating promotional materials, research files, prints, posters, and correspondence.
Language
English
Archival history
This collection was transferred to the National Media Museum by Impressions Gallery in 2013.
Level of description
TOP
Repository name
National Science and Media Museum, Bradford
Subject
Exhibitions
Photography
Art galleries
Curation
Curating
Conditions governing access
Access is given in accordance with the NMeM access policy. Material from this collection is available to researchers through the museum’s Insight facility.
Conditions governing Reproduction
Copies may be supplied of items in the collection, provided that the copying process used does not damage the item or is not detrimental to its preservation. Copies will be supplied in accordance with the NMeM’s terms and conditions for the supply and reproduction of copies, and the provisions of any relevant copyright legislation.
External document
Impressions Gallery Archive catalogue (art prints and posters)
System of arrangement
This collection is currently undergoing cataloguing - this field will be updated when a system of arrangement has been established.