Bob Mazzer
Bob Mazzer (born 1948) is a British street photographer, living in St Leonards-on-Sea.[1] His photographs of people on the London Underground were collected in the book Underground (2014). Mazzer has also photographed people in Hastings and St Leonards-on-Sea. He currently has a retrospective exhibition at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, until 17 April 2022.[1]
Life and work
[edit]Mazzer was born in Whitechapel, London.[1][2] He studied graphic design at Hornsey College of Art in London.[1]
Mazzer photographed people on the London Underground in the 1970s and 1980s as he commuted to his job working as a projectionist at a porn cinema, and later. 40 years of these photographs were published in the book Underground (2014).[2][3][4]
He has since moved to St Leonards-on-Sea.[1] His book Bob Mazzer (2020), a restospective of work from the 1960s to the present day, includes "Underground images; hippie life in Wales; life in France; expanding life in the USA and local life in Hastings" and St Leonards.[5][6] In Sussex (2022) includes photographs again from Hastings and St Leonards, as well as the surrounding countryside.
Publications
[edit]- Underground. Spitalfields Life, 2014. ISBN 978-0957656932.[7][8]
- Bob Mazzer. London: Unicorn, 2020. With a foreword by Will Self. ISBN 978-1912690602.[5]
- In Sussex. London: Unicorn, 2022. ISBN 9781914414381. With a foreword by Eamonn McCabe. Published to coincide with an exhibition at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery.
- Tube. Hastings: Silverhill, 2022.
Exhibitions
[edit]Solo exhibitions
[edit]- Bob Mazzer: Underground, Howard Griffin Gallery, London, 2014[9][10][11]
- Bob Mazzer in Camera: a Retrospective, Hastings Museum and Art Gallery, Hastings, 20 January 2022 – 17 April 2022[1]
Group exhibitions
[edit]- New Work in Britain: Aspects of Photography in Britain Today, The Photographers' Gallery, London, 1981. With Ricardo Gómez Pérez, Martin Parr, and others.[12]
Films
[edit]- Bob Mazzer: Underground & Other Pictures (FullBleed, 2015) – documentary directed by Richard Butchins[13]
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d e f "A bearded dragon in St Leonards-on-Sea … Bob Mazzer's best photograph". The Guardian. 26 January 2022. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
- ^ a b "Behind the Scenes: We interview Bob Mazzer about his photographs taken on the Tube". www.itsnicethat.com. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
- ^ "Pictures: Take A Tube Back To The Underground Of The 70s & 80s". HuffPost UK. 10 January 2014. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
- ^ "Beautifully intimate images from London's underground". Dazed. 15 May 2014. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
- ^ a b Hampson, Laura; Richman, Gareth (18 January 2020). "24 of Bob Mazzer's best images from the 1960s to today". www.standard.co.uk. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
- ^ "New book of artist's street photography captures everyday life in Sussex". The Argus. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
- ^ "Bob Mazzer's tube photography – London picture galleries". Time Out London. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
- ^ Chapple, Irene. "Humor and humanity: Four decades of London's underground life". CNN. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
- ^ Lamont, Tom (27 July 2013). "Going underground – in pictures". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
- ^ "Bob Mazzer "Underground" @ Howard Griffin Gallery, London". www.juxtapoz.com. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
- ^ "Bob Mazzer Opens His First Exhibition of 1980s London Underground Photography". Complex. Retrieved 27 January 2022.
- ^ "The Photographers' Gallery: Exhibition History, 1971 – Present" (PDF). The Photographers' Gallery. Retrieved 28 January 2022.
- ^ "BJP Presents a Fullbleed Film: Bob Mazzer's Underground & Other Pictures". British Journal of Photography. Retrieved 27 January 2022.