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Tom Hunter (born 1965 in Bournemouth, UK) is a London-based artist working in photography and film. His photographs often reference and reimagine classical paintings. He studied at the London College of Printing, and was the first photographer to have a one man show at the National Gallery, London. Hunter has shown work internationally in exhibitions, his work is held in a number of public collections and he has had four books published. He has won various awards including an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society. ==Life and work== His work has specialised in documenting life in Hackney, depicting local issues and sensationalist news headlines with compositions borrowed from the Old Masters. For instance, his photograph of a squatter, ''Woman Reading a Possession Order'', references Johannes Vermeer's Girl Reading a Letter at an Open Window. This photograph won the Kobal Photographic Portrait Award in 1998.〔〔(Life through a lens ), Royal College of Art biography〕〔( From High Art to High Rise: Making Modern Masterpieces ), National Gallery〕 Of the photograph, which was shot with a large-format camera and printed in Ilfochrome process, Hunter said: :"I just wanted to take a picture showing the dignity of squatter life – a piece of propaganda to save my neighbourhood....The great thing is, the picture got a dialogue going with the council – and we managed to save the houses.''〔(Photographer Tom Hunter's best shot, ''The Guardian'', 4 November 2009 )〕 In 2010 Hunter screened ''A Palace for Us'', a film he made about the elderly residents of public buildings in Woodberry Down, Manor House, London. Jonathan Jones described it as a 'magical' work of contemporary art that chronicled the postwar ambition to provide housing for the working class.〔(Tom Hunter: A Palace for Us – review, ''The Guardian'', 9 December 2010 )〕 He works at the Photography and the Archive Research Centre in London. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Tom Hunter (artist)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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