Background
Fay Godwin was born on February 17, 1931 in Berlin, Germany, the daughter of Sidney Simmonds, a British diplomat who had married Stella MacLean, an American artist.
(These photographs reveal not only the seaside resorts and...)
These photographs reveal not only the seaside resorts and clifftop walks we all know, but they also depict the more dramatic and remote stretches of coast that are relatively inaccessible. The pictures are more than studies of empty landscape, for they reveal man's essential and natural affinity with the land, and nowhere is this more poignantly apparent than at the interface between rock and water, terra firma and the tidal ocean.
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1995
Fay Godwin was born on February 17, 1931 in Berlin, Germany, the daughter of Sidney Simmonds, a British diplomat who had married Stella MacLean, an American artist.
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Fay Godwin produced portraits of dozens of well-known writers, photographing almost every significant literary figure in 1970s and 1980s England, as well as numerous visiting foreign authors. Her subjects, typically photographed in the sitters' own homes, included Kingsley Amis, Saul Bellow, Angela Carter, Margaret Drabble, Günter Grass, Ted Hughes, Clive James, Philip Larkin, Doris Lessing, Edna O'Brien, Anthony Powell, Salman Rushdie, Jean Rhys, and Tom Stoppard.
After the publication of her first books - Rebecca the Lurcher (1973) and The Oldest Road: An Exploration of the Ridgeway (1975), co-authored with J.R.L. Anderson - she was a prolific publisher, working mainly in the landscape tradition to great acclaim and becoming the nation's most well-known landscape photographer. Her early and mature work was informed by the sense of ecological crisis present in late 1970s and 1980s England.
In the 1990s Fay Godwin was offered a Fellowship at the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television (now the National Media Museum) in Bradford, which pushed her work in the direction of colour and urban documentary.
Fay Godwin also began taking close-ups of natural forms. A major exhibition of that work was toured by Warwick Arts Centre from 1995 to 1997; she self-published a small book of that work in 1999, called Glassworks & Secret Lives, which was distributed from a small local bookshop in her adopted hometown of Hastings in East Sussex.
Fay Godwin was less active in her final years; in a December 2004 interview for Practical Photography, she blamed "the NHS. They ruined my life by using some drugs with adverse affects [sic] that wrecked my heart. The result is that I haven't the energy to walk very far."
Fay Godwin died on 27 May 2005, in Hastings, England at the age of 74.
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1995Quotations: "My way into photography was through family snaps in the mid-1960s. I had no formal training, but after the snaps came portraits, reportage, and finally, through my love of walking, landscape photography, all in black and white. A Fellowship with the National Museum of Photography in Bradford led to urban landscape in colour, and very personal close-up work in colour has followed."
Fay Godwin married publisher Tony Godwin in 1961; the couple had two sons, Jeremy and Nicholas.