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Marc Atkins
Marc Atkins

Marc Atkins is an English artist, photographer, filmmaker and poet, born in 1962, best known for his photography of cities and nudes, also commercially for music album and book covers.

Background

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Atkins attended Staffordshire College of Art and Design, gaining a Distinction; Cheltenham School of Art, receiving a First Class Honors Degree (in sculpture), followed by Postgraduate Studies at the Jan Van Eyck Academie,[1] Netherlands (in performance, video, film and photography). After spending the subsequent year in Rome, he returned to London.

He then moved to Canada where, he became assistant professor at the University of Windsor, Ontario, during which time he travelled across North America. Since then, Atkins has lived and worked in London, but has also spent extended periods of time in Rome, New York, Warsaw and Paris.

Atkins has presented his work and ideas on the image at lectures and conferences at venues such as the Royal Academy, London, UEL School of Architecture, London, Royal College of Art, London, Instytut Mikołowski, Poland, the New York University Paris, The Photographers' Gallery, London, Université de Liège, Belgium and the Centre for Research in the Arts, Social Sciences, and Humanities, Cambridge University.

Atkins' work is exhibited regularly, and has been published and reviewed in books, magazines and newspapers worldwide, including V & A Magazine, Le Passant Ordinaire,[2] Frieze, Negronia, Dwukropek, Performance Research, Porzucone twarze, Fotographia, and Hotshoe International.

As a commercial photographer has worked for many organisations, including The Art Fund, University of Cambridge, Vaughan Oliver / v23 and University of the Arts London. He has produced images for numerous CD and vinyl covers,[3][4] including David Lynch ('Good Day Today' and 'I know'),[5] The Breeders,[6] TV on the Radio,[7] Scott Walker[8] and Jah Wobble, and also for over one hundred book-jackets, including Arthur Miller, Anaïs Nin, Joseph Conrad, Georges Bataille, R. L. Stevenson, Peter Ackroyd, D. H. Lawrence, A. L. Kennedy and Iain Sinclair.[9] He has completed several video commissions, including music videos[10] and short films on Byam Shaw School of Art[11] and Central Saint Martins School of Art. His work is in many public and private collections. Several of his photographic portraits are in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery, London.[12]

Bibliography

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  • "The Prism Walls" solo prose/poetry (Contraband Books ISBN 978-1-91031-901-7)
  • "Still Moving" solo photography with poetry by Rod Mengham (Veer Books ISBN 978-1-907088-64-3)
  • "The Logic of the Stairwell" solo prose/poetry (Shearsman Books ISBN 978-1-84861-161-0)
  • "The Teratologists", solo photography (panoptika ISBN 0-9534371-0-8)
  • "Liquid City", solo photography with text by Iain Sinclair (Reaktion Books ISBN 1-86189-037-0)
  • "Thirteen", solo photography with text by thirteen writers, including Julian Rathbone, Bill Drummond, James Sallis, Mick Farren, Stella Duffy and Nicholas Royle. (The Do-Not Press ISBN 1-899344-86-1)
  • "Warszawa" solo photography with poetry by Tadeusz Pióro and Andrzej Sosnowski (Wig-press ISBN 83-87014-99-0)
  • "The World's Top Photographers: Nudes”, also includes the work of Guy Bourdin, Bettina Rheims, Robert Mapplethorpe and Rankin (RotoVision ISBN 2-88046-823-X)
  • "The Nude" also includes the work of Bill Brandt & Ralph Gibson (RotoVision ISBN 2-88046-533-8)
  • "Faces of Mathematics", solo photography with introductions by Nick Gilbert, and also with text by the participants, including Sir Michael Atiyah. (panoptika ISBN 0-9534371-1-6)

Exhibitions

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References

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  1. ^ "Art education". marcatkins.com. Archived from the original on 14 May 2014.
  2. ^ "The Journey to an Empty Room". Le Passant Ordinaire. Archived from the original on 15 May 2008. Retrieved 6 July 2008.
  3. ^ "Artwork for CDs and Vinyl covers". Discogs.
  4. ^ "Artwork for CDs and Vinyl covers". panoptika.net.
  5. ^ "Artwork for David Lynch". marcatkins.com. Archived from the original on 14 July 2011.
  6. ^ "Five Questions for Vaughan Oliver". Breeders Digest.
  7. ^ "TV on the Radio". Discogs.
  8. ^ "Scott Walker The Drift". 4ad. Archived from the original on 14 May 2014.
  9. ^ "Book Covers". panoptika.net.
  10. ^ "Music Videos". Vimeo.
  11. ^ "Arts: Courses". YouTube. Archived from the original on 21 December 2021.
  12. ^ "NPG Profile". National Portrait Gallery.
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