H. T. Brookes
Benediction—Winchester Cathedralcirca 1930

Not on view

Artist or Maker: H. T. Brookes
Title: Benediction—Winchester Cathedral
Place Made: England
Date Made: circa 1930
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image: 14 1/2 × 9 in. (36.83 × 22.86 cm) Primary support: 14 1/2 × 9 in. (36.83 × 22.86 cm) Secondary support: 19 7/8 × 15 1/2 in. (50.48 × 39.37 cm) Mat: 21 7/8 × 18 in. (55.56 × 45.72 cm)
Credit Line: Los Angeles County Fund
Accession Number: 31.34.2
Classification: Photographs
Collecting Area: Photography
Curatorial Notes: The Pictorialist movement in photography thrived internationally from the 1890s to the 1930s. Its advocates sought to infuse the modern, mechanical medium with expression, craft, and symbolism. Here, English photographer H. T. Brookes exemplifies the Pictorialist taste for organic surface texture and romantic lighting. His soaring yet intimate cathedral interior could be mistaken for a charcoal drawing made a century prior to its actual date of execution, around 1930. In its intentional timelessness, Benediction—Winchester Cathedral attests to medievalism’s enduring allure into the modern age.

Britt Salvesen

2024

Not on view

Artist or Maker: H. T. Brookes
Title: Benediction—Winchester Cathedral
Place Made: England
Date Made: circa 1930
Medium: Gelatin silver print
Dimensions: Image: 14 1/2 × 9 in. (36.83 × 22.86 cm) Primary support: 14 1/2 × 9 in. (36.83 × 22.86 cm) Secondary support: 19 7/8 × 15 1/2 in. (50.48 × 39.37 cm) Mat: 21 7/8 × 18 in. (55.56 × 45.72 cm)
Credit Line: Los Angeles County Fund
Accession Number: 31.34.2
Classification: Photographs
Collecting Area: Photography
Curatorial Notes: The Pictorialist movement in photography thrived internationally from the 1890s to the 1930s. Its advocates sought to infuse the modern, mechanical medium with expression, craft, and symbolism. Here, English photographer H. T. Brookes exemplifies the Pictorialist taste for organic surface texture and romantic lighting. His soaring yet intimate cathedral interior could be mistaken for a charcoal drawing made a century prior to its actual date of execution, around 1930. In its intentional timelessness, Benediction—Winchester Cathedral attests to medievalism’s enduring allure into the modern age.

Britt Salvesen

2024