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Nationality
  
British

Citizenship
  
British


Name
  
Colin Ford

Role
  
Curator

Colin Ford (curator)

Born
  
1934 (
1934
)
United Kingdom

Known for
  
Keeper at the National Portrait Gallery, London Director of the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television Director of the National Museums and Galleries of Wales

Alma mater
  
University College, Oxford

Residence
  
London Borough of Enfield, United Kingdom

Awards
  
Order of the British Empire

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Colin John Ford CBE (born 1934) is a British photographic curator, historian of photography, and former museum director.

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Ford has written a number of books on the history of photography.

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Life

Ford was educated at University College, Oxford University.

Ford began his career in the theatre. He has been a director and broadcaster. During 1972–82, Ford was Keeper of Film and Photography at the National Portrait Gallery, London. He then became the first director of the UK National Museum of Photography, Film and Television in Bradford (later to become the National Media Museum). From 1992 he was Director of the National Museums and Galleries of Wales.

Ford has interviewed contemporary photographers such as Don McCullin. He also gives lectures on the history of photography.

Until 2010, Ford was Chairman of the Kraszna-Krausz Foundation. He is Vice-President of the Julia Margaret Cameron Trust and Chairman of the Peel Entertainment Group.

Books

  • An Early Victorian Album: The Photographic Masterpieces of David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson (1974).
  • The Cameron Collection: An Album of Photographs by Julia Margaret Cameron (1975).
  • Portraits (1982).
  • Eyewitness: Hungarian Photography in the 20th Century: Brassaï, Capa, Kertész, Moholy-Nagy, Munkásci, Royal Academy of Arts (2011), with Péter Baki. ISBN 978-1905711765.
  • Awards and legacy

    Ford is a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE).

    The Royal Photographic Society established the annual Colin Ford Award in 2003 for contributions to curatorship, named after Colin Ford as the first director of the National Museum of Photography, Film and Television.

    There are several photographs of Ford in the National Portrait Gallery (London) collection, including works by Arnold Newman, Norman Parkinson, and Cheryl Twomey.

    References

    Colin Ford (curator) Wikipedia