Survival Programmes: Exit Photography Group (Nicholas Battye/Chris Steele-Perkins/Paul Trevor)

Identity Statement

Reference code(s)	: GB 0097 SURVIVAL
Held at	: British Library of Political and Economic Science   Click here to find out how to view this collection at http://www.lse.ac.uk/library ›
Full title	: Survival Programmes: Exit Photography Group (Nicholas Battye/Chris Steele-Perkins/Paul Trevor)
Date(s)	: 1973-2006
Level of description	: Collection
Extent	: 22 boxes
Name of creator(s)	: Exit Photography Group
Detailed catalogue	: Click here to view repository detailed catalogue

Context

Administrative/Biographical history:

'Survival Programmes' was a Gulbenkian funded project to document inner city environments and lives in the later 1970s. The original photographs were used in a travelling exhibition, and are kept by the Side Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne. A book based on the project, Survival Programmes: in Britain's Inner Cities by the Exit Photography Group (Nicholas Battye/Chris Steele-Perkins/Paul Trevor) was published in 1982.

Content

Scope and content/abstract:

Survival Programmes comprises photographs (all black and white), interview transcripts, drafts and other materials relating to the book Survival Programmes by the Exit Photography Group (Nicholas Battye/Chris Steele-Perkins/Paul Trevor). The photographs and interviews were made between 1974 and 1979, and record life in Britain's inner urban areas in the 1970s.

Access & Use

Language/scripts of material:
English

System of arrangement:

Section 1: Administration files and correspondence;
Section 2: Processing of images;
Section 3: Processing of interview transcripts;
Section 4: Producing other texts for book;
Section 5: Proofs;
Section 6: Survival programmes book and publicity regarding the project.

Conditions governing access:

Open

Conditions governing reproduction:

No material may be published without the prior permission of both the copyright holder and the Library. All applications for publication must be made to the Archivist in the first instance, but responsibility for ensuring copyright clearance rests with the user.

Finding aids:

Detailed catalogue available online.

Archival Information

Archival history:

Immediate source of acquisition:

Deposited by Paul Trevor.

Allied Materials

Related material:

Publication note:

Description Notes

Archivist's note:
Sources: Copied from LSE Archives CALM database by Anna Towlson.

Rules or conventions:
Compiled in compliance with General International Standard Archival Description, ISAD(G), second edition, 2000; National Council on Archives Rules for the Construction of Personal, Place and Corporate Names, 1997.

Date(s) of descriptions:
Feb 2008