{{short description|British documentary photographer|bot=PearBOT 5}} {{for|the promoter of the Royal Cornwall Polytechnic Society|Anna Maria Fox}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2022}} '''Anna Fox''' (born 1961) is a British documentary photographer, known for a "combative, highly charged use of flash and colour".<ref name="telegraph-beyfus">{{cite news | url = https://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/photography/7101272/Anna-Fox-Deutsche-Borse-Photography-Prize.html | date = 31 Jan 2010 | accessdate = 3 December 2014 | first = Drusilla | last = Beyfus | newspaper = The Daily Telegraph | title = Anna Fox: Deutsche Börse Photography Prize}}</ref><ref name="williams-photographs-1983-2007">{{cite book | last= Williams | first= Val | authorlink= Val Williams | title= Anna Fox Photographs 1983-2007 | url= http://issuu.com/marcpeter6/docs/anna_fox_-_single_pages | accessdate= 3 December 2014 | year= 2005 | publisher= Photoworks| location= Brighton, England | isbn= 978-1903796221 | page= 17}}</ref> In 2019 she was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society.
==Career and work== Fox completed her degree in Photography at West Surrey College of Art and Design in Farnham, Surrey in 1986<ref name=":0">{{Cite news|url=https://www.photographyshow.com/speakers/anna-fox|title=Anna Fox|work=The Photography Show 2017|access-date=2017-07-05|language=en-GB|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170717214515/https://www.photographyshow.com/speakers/anna-fox|archive-date=2017-07-17|url-status=dead}}</ref> under tutors Martin Parr, Paul Graham and Karen Knorr.<ref>"[http://www.hotshoeinternational.com/blog/interview/anna-fox-resort-1 Anna Fox: Resort 1]", Hotshoe. Accessed 3 December 2014.</ref>
Fox first came to attention with her 1988 documentary study of London office life on the mid-1980s, ''Work Stations: Office Life in London''. She is perhaps best known for her ''Zwarte Piet'' series made between 1993 and 1998, published as the book ''Zwarte Piet'', which documents 'black face' folk culture traditions in the Netherlands. Between 2001 and 2003 she published four monographs in her "Made in" series: ''Made in Milton Keynes'', ''Made in Kansas'', ''Made in Gothenburg'' and ''Made in Florence''. From 2009, Fox photographed for two years at Butlins in Bognor Regis for her book ''Resort 1 - Butlin's Bognor Regis''.<ref>{{cite news|url = https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/gallery/2013/nov/08/anna-fox-butlins-resort-photography#/?picture=421914933&index=7 | date = 8 November 2013 | accessdate = 3 December 2014 | website = The Guardian | title = Hello campers! Butlins in technicolour – in pictures}}</ref><ref name="guardian-ohagan">{{cite news|url = https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2013/nov/08/anna-fox-butlins-resort-photography | date = 8 November 2013 | accessdate = 3 December 2014 | first = Sean | last = O'Hagan | authorlink = Sean O'Hagan (journalist) | website = The Guardian | title = The height of camp: kitsch, colour and casualwear at Butlins }}</ref><ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/in-pictures-25242145 | date = 7 January 2014 | accessdate = 3 December 2014 | publisher = BBC News | title = In pictures: Resort by Anna Fox}}</ref>
She currently works as head of photography at University for the Creative Arts in Farnham.<ref name="telegraph-beyfus" /><ref>"[https://archive.today/20141203090840/http://www.ucreative.ac.uk/anna-fox-uca Professor Anna Fox]", University for the Creative Arts. Accessed 3 December 2014.</ref> A retrospective 300-page book ''Photographs 1983-2007'' by Val Williams was published by Photoworks in 2007. In November 2009 Fox was shortlisted for the 2010 Deutsche Börse Photography Prize, held at the Photographers Gallery, London,<ref name="telegraph-beyfus" /> and the 2012 Pilar Citoler Prize.<ref name=":0" /> In 2019, Fox was awarded an Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society.
The critic Sean O'Hagan, reviewing ''Resort 1 - Butlin's Bognor Regis'' in ''The Guardian'', said "Her work often hones in on the particular to suggest the universal, such as her series The Village (1991–1993), in which rural England becomes a pastiche of itself even as the individual lives glimpsed therein seem vividly real."<ref name="guardian-ohagan" />
David Chandler, in his essay ''Vile Bodies'', in the book ''Anna Fox Photographs 1983-2007'', said Fox is "widely regarded as an important part of what might be called the 'second wave' of British colour documentary photography" and that she "helped form its particular style of combative, highly charged use of flash and colour".<ref name="williams-photographs-1983-2007" />
==Publications==
===Publications by Fox=== *''Work Stations: Office Life in London Photographed by Anna Fox.'' Camerawork, 1988. {{ISBN|978-1871103007}}. *''Street Dreams: Indian Vernacular Studio Photographs.'' Booth-Clibborn, 1997. {{ISBN|978-1861540713}}. Edited by Val Williams. *''Cockroach Diary.'' Shoreditch Biennale, 2000. {{ISBN|978-0953319923}}. *''Zwarte Piet.'' London: Black Dog, 2001. {{ISBN|978-1901033861}}. *''Made in Europe.'' Milton Keynes Gallery, 2001-2003. Five small paperbacks. Made in Milton Keynes 2001, {{ISBN|0-9536755-5-6}}. Made in Gothenburg 2002, {{ISBN|0-9542029-2-9}}. Made in Kaunas 2002, {{ISBN|0-9542029-1-0}}. Made in Florence 2003, {{ISBN|0-9542029-5-3}}. Made in Los Cristianos 2003, {{ISBN|0-9542029-4-5}}. Photographs and texts made by teenagers in five European cities. *''Resort 1 - Butlin's Bognor Regis.'' Amsterdam: Schilt, 2013. {{ISBN|978-9053308035}}. Text by Stephen Bull. *''Portraits from an Island.'' Newsprint catalogue with essay, 2015
===Other publications=== * ''Anna Fox Photographs 1983-2007.'' By Val Williams. Brighton: Photoworks, 2007. {{ISBN|978-1903796221}}. With texts by David Chandler, Val Williams, Jason Evans and Mieke Bal. *''Basics Creative Photography 03: Behind the Image: Research in Photography.'' London: AVA, 2012. {{ISBN|978-2940411665}}. With Natasha Caruana. *''Langford's Basic Photography: The guide for serious photographers.'' By Michael Langford, Fox, and Richard Sawdon Smith. **Waltham, MA: Focal Press, 2015. {{ISBN|978-0415718912}}. Tenth edition.
==Exhibitions (selected)== *1990: ''In Pursuit,'' solo exhibition, Photographers' Gallery, London, 30 November 1990 – 19 January 1991.<ref>"[http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/images/exhibitionList_TemporaryFormat_52f50145dfb9a.pdf] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140722193551/http://thephotographersgallery.org.uk/images/exhibitionList_TemporaryFormat_52f50145dfb9a.pdf |date=2014-07-22 }}", Photographers' Gallery. Accessed 3 December 2014.</ref> *2009: ''Cockroach Diary and Other Stories,'' Ffotogallery, Turner House Gallery, Penarth, Wales.<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.ffotogallery.org/anna-fox-cockroach-diary-and-other-stories | accessdate = 24 April 2014 | publisher = Ffotogallery | title = Anna Fox – Cockroach Diary and Other Stories | archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20140424125021/http://www.ffotogallery.org/anna-fox-cockroach-diary-and-other-stories | archive-date = 24 April 2014 | url-status = dead }}</ref> *2011: ''Resort,'' Pallant House Gallery, Chichester, UK, 25 June – 2 October 2011.<ref>"[http://pallant.org.uk/exhibitions1/past-exhibitions1/2011/main-galleries/anna-fox-resort/anna-fox-resort Anna Fox: Resort] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150911063439/http://pallant.org.uk/exhibitions1/past-exhibitions1/2011/main-galleries/anna-fox-resort/anna-fox-resort |date=September 11, 2015 }}", Pallant House Gallery. Accessed 3 December 2014.</ref> *2011: ''Resort,'' James Hyman Photography, London, 12 October – 12 November 2011.<ref>{{cite news | url = https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/art/features/portfolio-anna-fox-2326898.html | date = 31 July 2011 | accessdate = 3 December 2014 | first = Adam | last = Jacques | newspaper = The Independent | title = Portfolio: Anna Fox}}</ref>
==Awards== *2019: Honorary Fellowship of the Royal Photographic Society, Bristol.<ref>{{cite web|accessdate=2019-12-17|title=Royal Photographic Society announces its 2019 award winners|url=https://www.bjp-online.com/2019/09/royal-photographic-society-award-2019/|date=9 September 2019|website=British Journal of Photography}}</ref>
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==External links== * {{official website|www.annafox.co.uk}} * [http://www.jameshymangallery.com/pages/artist/15795/anna_fox.html Fox at James Hyman]
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