Montage of example photographs  taken by Reece Winstone
 
 
 
 


Reece Winstone FRPS, 1909-1991, was a freelance photographer all his life and built up his own photo-library of Beautiful Britain. He was a Bristolian, who recorded the city from 1930 to 1975. Post-war he began collecting historic photographs of the city, and was the first person to publish serial books of historic photographs, in 1957. This corpus is now all termed the Reece Winstone Archive.


1. The Photo Archive

The Archive consists of Reece’s 40,000 shots of Britain’s landscape, buildings and genre. There are forays into the Low Countries 1945/6. The work of some of Reece’s contemporaries is also held. The Archive also covers all parts of the city of Bristol and environs from 1840 and is on-going. It is the principal private photographic archive of Bristol and we are keen to accept photographs or negatives for posterity and possible future publication. Of the 7,000-odd photographs in this section the majority are published – see 2.0 Bristol books.
At present there are no personal search facilities. The Archive also contains personal papers and various items relating to Bristol, and to photography and photographers. The Archive is maintained by Reece’s son John.


1.1 Enquiries for Photographs & Ordering


Enquiries are welcome, and may be made in writing or by email, quoting vol/plate no. or neg. number if possible.
When a search has to be made for an unindexed item a search charge of £10 is payable.

Many shots of Britain are held by the National Monuments Record at Swindon and searchers there will need to contact ourselves for permission to reproduce, quoting the four- or five-digit negative number.

All Reece’s photography was painstakingly entered into accession books and the date and time the photograph was taken will be supplied.
There is a reproduction fee payable for publication or display of photographs from the Archive in whatever form.
Reproduction in reports for planning purposes, personal theses, family histories etc., is not excluded from this charge; credit to Reece Winstone Archive in your text is also required.

Current terms for private and commercial use are £25 for a scan to CD (plus postage outside UK), plus £25 per image for reproduction at time of ordering. For real black & white photographic prints please enquire.

 


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