Education
Haworth-Booth was educated at Brighton College before going to Clare College, Cambridge and afterwards the University of Edinburgh. Haworth-Booth studied English literature at Cambridge University and art history at Edinburgh University.
Haworth-Booth was educated at Brighton College before going to Clare College, Cambridge and afterwards the University of Edinburgh. Haworth-Booth studied English literature at Cambridge University and art history at Edinburgh University.
He curated the exhibitions Photography: An Independent Art (1997), and Things: A Spectrum of Photography, 1850-2001 (2004). His last photography exhibition was held at the National Portrait Gallery, London and titled Camille Silvy. Photographer of Modern Life 1834-1910.
He served as a curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum from 1970 to 2004 and, as senior curator of photographs, helped to build up its collection of photography.
Haworth-Booth is an Honorary Research Fellow at the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A) and a Senior Fellow of the Royal College of Artist He has curated many exhibitions and acted as a consultant on the British Broadcasting Corporation television series The Genius of Photography, aired in 2007 and again in 2009.
He curated, with the Jeu de Paume in Paris and the National Portrait Gallery in London, a centenary retrospective of the pioneering photographer Camille Silvy (1834-1910), shown at the National Portrait Gallery, London, in 2010. Haworth-Booth researched the Silvy Exhibition catalogue at the Jean Paul Getty Museum as a Museum Scholar in 2008.
Published in the United Kingdom, with French and United States editions, he wrote the introduction to Tessa Traeger"s Voices of the Vivarais, published in 2010 with an exhibition at Purdy Hicks Gallery in London.
Haworth-Booth served as the first Visiting Professor of Photography at the University of the Arts London (2002-2009). He was awarded the Royal Photographic Society"s Hood Medal in 1987, an honorary fellowship in 1996/7 and its Fenton Medal in 2006. Haworth-Booth was appointed Officer of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire for his "services to museums" in 2005 and was awarded an honorary Doctor of Arts degree by the University of the Arts London in 2012.
They have two daughters.