Publications
William Constable: Brighton's first photographer, by Philippe Garner, published September 1991 in History of Photography (vol. 15, no. 3, article, pp.236-240, ISSN: 0308-7298) View Online
Abstract:Number 57 Marine Parade is a large, four-storey house along Brighton's sea front, about half a mile east of Nash's Royal Pavilion, within the stretch of terraces and crescents developed during the Regency period when Brighton first regularly played host to the royal Court.
A Seaside Album: Photographs and Memory, by Philippe Garner, published 13 June 2003 (144 pp., London: Royal Pavilion, Libraries & Museums, Brighton & Hove in association with Philip Wilson, ISBN-10: 0856675601 & ISBN-13: 9780856675607) accessible at: British Library & West Sussex Libraries
Abstract:This study tells the parallel stories of the evolution of Brighton, and neighbouring Hove, and the development of the practice of photography, from its invention through to the 1990s. It is also the story of the author's search for the photographs that illustrate the book so eloquently, and his investigation, through these images, of his own social, cultural and geographical roots. The majority of the 145 photographs are previously unpublished and provide a vivid evocation of the varied artistic aspirations and vernacular applications of the photographic medium. The book includes images by such internationally renowned masters as William Henry Fox Talbot, Bill Brandt, Walker Evans and Henri Cartier-Bresson.