3,080 research outputs found
Too Good To Hide: Tony Hayes
No full textThe article provides a brief profile of Tony Hayes. The text focuses on Hayes’ project ‘Window Dressing’ (2019) that documents shop window displays in Chester, Liverpool and Manchester. All of the photographs for this project include the reflection of the photographer – consequently the images combine the window display and the photographer’s self-portrait. Two of Hayes’ photographs are reproduced in the article and written about in the article text. The article complemented the exhibition ‘Too Good To Hide: Tony Hayes’ shown at the Rainbow Tea Rooms, Chester (28 Bridge Street, CH1 1NQ).The article ‘Too Good To Hide: Tony Hayes’ was written in relation to the exhibition of the same name at the Rainbow Tea Rooms in Chester (July - October 2024). The exhibition was curated by Stephen Clarke, and was the fourth curatorial project for Clarke at the café’s exhibition space in Chester city centre. Tony Hayes is a photographer based in Widnes who has undertaken an AA2A (Artist Access to Art Colleges) residency at the University of Chester. In the article Clarke considers how the camera operates as a series of lenses and mirrors to view a subject. Clarke refers to the catalogue essay by John Szarkowski for the exhibition ‘Mirrors and Windows: American Photography since 1960’ at the Museum of Modern Art New York in 1978. Szarkowski describes how a photographer uses a camera either as an objective ‘window’ to view the world or a subjective ‘mirror’ that reflects the photographer’s own sensibility. Clarke applies this discussion to the work of Tony Hayes who has made a series of photographs looking into shop windows that record both the view through the glass pane and the reflection of the photographer.
Stephen Clarke and Tony Hayes were interviewed by Sean Styles on BBC Merseyside in Liverpool at 1.30pm on Sunday 6th October 2024.unfunde
Chester Page Collection
No full textPianist and art connoisseur, Chester Page (1929-) was a close confidant to Modernist American author, Djuna Barnes (1892-1982) during the final decade of her life, as well as a friend to several other major literary figures such as Marianne Moore (1887-1972), Bryher (1894-1983), and Elizabeth Bishop (1911-1979). Barnes and Page shared a mutual friendship with Moore. In the spring of 1970 Page wrote to Barnes to introduce himself and to offer his assistance. He was invited to tea at Barnes's apartment at 5 Patchin Place in New York City on 19 May 1970, and from that moment forward, enjoyed a close friendship with the author until her death. After Barnes's death on 18 June 1982, Page became an invaluable source of information on the reclusive author during her final days. He had managed a closeness which Barnes bestowed on a select few. The Chester Page Collection contains correspondence between Barnes and several friends and literary figures and some epemera collected by Page. The collection spans the period 1933 to 1992. Correspondence with Louise Crane (1913-1997) dating between 1970 and 1973 constitutes the bulk of the collection
Spirit of Chester, Chester County, South Carolina History - Accession 1080 - M491 (542)
No full textThis collection consists of a magazine titled “Spirit of Chester: Chester County, SC” that was a supplement to The Chester News, October 28, 1932 as an advertisement of the county for prospective businesses, visitors, and potential inhabitants. It illustrates the history of Chester County, South Carolina up until 1932 and describes what makes Chester County in the 1930s the “Power Center of the South” and “A Good Place in Which to Live.” The article in the possession of Winthrop University Archives is a photocopy of the original.https://digitalcommons.winthrop.edu/manuscriptcollection_findingaids/2096/thumbnail.jp
Portrait of Chester Porter QC, 2001 [1] [picture] /
No full textTitle from accession record.; Part of collection: Collection of portraits of Chester Porter QC, 2001.; Condition: Good
Globalisation of what? Power, knowledge and neocolonialism
No full textThis book chapter discusses some of the underlying themes that are raised in the juxtaposition of globalisation debates and debates concerning the contemporary nature of imperialism and its relationship to the process of globalisation.We are grateful to both our author and University of Chester Press in granting permission for this chapter to made Open Access
An evaluation of the 'Living with Cancer' project: Using neuro-linguistic programming techniques to maximise the coping strategies of carers and patients living with cancer in Ellesmere Port
No full textThe 'Living with cancer' project aimed to improve communication, relationship, and coping skills of health professionals, cancer patients and their carers in Ellesmere Port. The project delivered NLP Diploma training to 55 health professionals between April 2001-March 2004.Commissioned by Chester and Halton NHS Trust and funded through the New Opportunities Fund
Letter Written by Chester W. Desormeaux to the Bryant College Service Club Dated July 17, 1943
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ARDMORE ARMY AIR FIELDARDMORE, OKLA.
7/17/43
Dear Club Members:
This is to advise you of my new change of station. My new address will be:
2nd Lt. Chester W. Desormeaux394th B. Grp. 584th Sqdn.Ardmore Army Air FieldArdmore, Oklahoma
Your recent circular letter + your exchange list has been recently received. You are doing good work. Please accept my thanks. Please give Mr. Shors my regards as coming from “The French man”.
Yours sincerely,Chester W. Desormeaux
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Portrait of Chester Porter QC, 2001 [2] [picture] /
No full textTitle from accession record.; Part of collection: Collection of portraits of Chester Porter QC, 2001.; Condition: Good
Evaluating the visitor experience: The case of Chester Cathedral
No full textChester Cathedral has been a place of worship for 1100 years, although in comparative terms as a heritage visitor attraction it is not so established. Nonetheless it remains a focal point to the city no matter the purpose of visit. This enquiry focuses on the commercial aspects of the Cathedral and in particular the visitor experience. The purpose of the study was to evaluate the visitor experience so that the Chester Cathedral could further develop as a successful heritage attraction In addition the author endeavoured to add to the contemporary academic debate by interpreting the empirical evidence in a primarily post¬modern perspective. The scope of the research problem was refined by explicitly investigating a number of key research questions. These questions allowed the author to engage in a number of contemporary debates embedded around the heritage/ history battleground, further more the application of post-modern thought was a tool in understanding the social reality. The mixed methodology adopted reflected the complex environment in which the case-study operates, an initial exploratory qualitative phase (primary methodology) was adopted to familiarise the author with the social reality in order to improve validity in the form of semi-structured interviews with various stakeholders. This was then followed by a quantitative visitor questionnaire (secondary methodology), using findings from the interviews as a design structure. Whilst this approach had obvious paradigm implications it was deemed essential in providing well balanced empirical evidence for the post¬modern interpretation; multiple-ways to perceive multiple-realities. The evaluation of the visitor experience identified that there were a number of key synergies required to ensure further development of Chester Cathedral as a heritage attraction, with the interpretation raising some interesting discussions regarding postmodernism and the contemporary debate
Biodiversity in the North West: The slime moulds of Cheshire
No full textThis book is not available through ChesterRep.The county of Cheshire, in its broadest, historical sense, has a rich diversity of wildlife, linked to a varied geology and land use. This is an account of a group of strange but fascinating organisms, the slime moulds, which straddle the boundaries between fungi and protozoans. After a short introduction to the biology and ecology of slime moulds, the physical and ecological environment of wider Cheshire is described. The main body of the work is a detailed catalogue of all the species ever recorded in the district. The records date back into the 19th century but are mostly concentrated in the last 40 years, since the author came to Chester. There are more than 90 maps, on a 5 km grid square base, of the commoner species
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