David Alan Mellor

David Alan Mellor is a British curator and professor of and writer on art.

Life and Career

David Mellor — as he was called before he wanted to avoid confusion with the politician of the same name — studied art at Sussex University under Quentin Bell. When Asa Briggs, also a professor there at the time, received the archive of Mass-Observation from Tom Hopkinson, he gave Mellor the job of sorting it.^[1]

Exhibitions curated by Mellor include Paradise Lost: The New Romantic Imagination in Britain (Barbican, 1987); The Sixties (1993);^[1] and Co-Optic & Documentary Photography Group (Brighton Photo Biennial, 2014).^[2]

As a professor of art at Sussex University, his students included Jeremy Deller.^[1]

In 2005 Mellor won the Royal Photographic Society's J. Dudley Johnston Award.^[3]

Books by Mellor

• Cecil Beaton. London: Jonathan Cape, 1994. ISBN 0-224-04122-3. Coedited with Philippe Garner. On Cecil Beaton.
• Arthur Tress: Centric 52: Requiem for a Paperweight. Long Beach: California State University, University Art Museum, 1994. ISBN 0-936270-33-0. On Arthur Tress.
• David Hiscock. London: Zelda Cheatle, 1995. ISBN 0-9518371-9-2. With Chris Titterington. On David Hiscock.
• Sixties London: The Photographs of Robert Whitaker 1965–70. Sydney: Art Gallery of New South Wales, 1996. On Robert Whitaker.
• The Only Blonde in the World: Pauline Boty, 1938-1966. London: AM Publications, 1998. ISBN 0-9509896-2-2. With Sue Watling. On Pauline Boty.
• Chemical Traces: Photography and Conceptual Art, 1968–1998. Kingston upon Hull: Kingston upon Hull City Museums & Art Galleries, 1998. ISBN 0-904490-19-X.
• The Barry Joule Archive: Works on Paper Attributed to Francis Bacon. Dublin: Irish Museum of Modern Art, 2000. ISBN 1-873654-84-7.
• The Sixties: Britain and France, 1962–1973: The Utopian Years. London: Philip Wilson, 2001. ISBN 0-85667-467-2.
• Tracing Light. Maidstone: Photoworks, 2001. ISBN 0-9517427-8-7. With Garry Fabian Miller.
• The Art of Robyn Denny. London: Black Dog, 2002. ISBN 1-901033-33-3. On Robyn Denny.
• Interpreting Lucian Freud. London: Tate, 2002. ISBN 1-85437-442-7. On Lucian Freud.
• Van Gogh vu par Bacon. Arles: Actes sud, 2002. ISBN 2-7427-3840-1. Vincent van Gogh as seen by Francis Bacon, edited by Mellor and Yolande Clergue. (French)
• Liliane Lijn: Works 1959-80. Warwick: Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, 2005. ISBN 0-902683-75-6. On Liliane Lijn.
• No Such Thing as Society: Photography in Britain 1967–1987: From the British Council and the Arts Council Collection. London: Hayward Publishing, 2007. ISBN 978-1-85332-265-5.

References

1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 Chris Arnot, "David Alan Mellor: Image Maker", The Guardian, 1 March 2005. Accessed 2010-10-22.
2. ↑ "Co-Optic & Documentary Photography Group | BPB14", Brighton Photo Biennial. Accessed 2 November 2014.
3. ↑ "Art history professor recognised for contribution to photography", University of Sussex, 4 October 2005. Accessed 2010-10-22.