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Hurley Lock
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Hurley Lock
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Cover of a later edition
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What is the project:
Digital photographers, Jeff Robins and Graham Diprose were inspired by Henry Taunt’s first photographic guides to the river from the 1870s and 80s and set out to find many of his finest views of the Thames to recapture and re-document them photographically some 125 years later. Taunt’s photography used the cutting edge techniques of the time, much like Diprose and Robins, who were breaking new boundaries in digital landscape imaging in making this project.
Taunt's photographs are now held in the archives of English Heritage (National Monuments Record), Oxfordshire Studies and the River and Rowing Museum, Henley and were consulted for our project. Over seventy of Taunt’s finest images of the Thames, have been scanned and restored to make fascinating pairs of ‘then and now’ images.A book:
Francis Lincoln, a publisher specialising in high quality books for organisations such as The National Gallery and The Royal Horticultural Society has produced a 192 page hardback edition of the project, and launched to coincide with the exhibition’s first opening and subsequent tour.
An Exhibition:
An exhibition of the project 
also called ‘In the Footsteps
of Henry Taunt’ is in the Reading Museum from 26th January
to 26th April 2008. The project collaborators plan to tour the show to a national network of museums and
galleries up to 2010 and quite possibly beyond.
