Important Photographs from the Peter Fetterman Collection
Thurston Hopkins
University Students at a Union Dance, Manchester, 1955
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Important Photographs from the Peter Fetterman Collection
Thurston Hopkins
1913 - 2014
University Students at a Union Dance, Manchester, 1955
Silver print, printed later. Signed, titled and dated in pencil, and with the photographer's copyright inkstamp on the verso. Matted. (unframed)
image: 24.3 by 34cm.; 9⅝ by 13⅜in.
sheet: 30.5 by 40.6cm.; 12 by 16in.
“The camera paid better than the brush.” Thurston Hopkins on giving up being a starving painter and taking up photography.
A young couple getting to know each other at the Manchester University Student Union Fresher’s Ball. Thurston was a romantic which I think was one of the reasons he lived to be 101 years old.
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