Photography is the story of all of us. As a species. As individuals.

It is the great democratic art form. It gives each of us a history that only the most privileged could have had before.

In the hands of the masters, it is haunting, disturbing, beautiful and moving.

Photography is a great modern art.

A series of five weekly talks by Roger Simpson.

£10 per talk of £42.50 for all five booked at the same time.

September 26th Eugene Atget (1857-1927) and Jacques-Henri Lartigue (1894-1986)

French Pioneers. The Belle Epoch and Beyond.

October 3rd EJ Bellocq (1873-1949) and Diane Arbus (1923-1971)

Photography on the Edge: Outsiders in the Land of the Free.

October 10th The Farm Security Administration Project

Hard times in America. Photographers of the Great Depression.

October 17th Ansel Adams (1902-1984)

Landscape as American conviction

October 24th Henri Cartier-Bresson (1908-2004)

An improbable marriage: photojournalism and surrealism