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Steve Woodhouse

VADAR & Image Asset Manager, Collections Management

VADAR & Image Archive administrator, started work here in 1983 under a different name of Steve Williams, and a smaller waistline, as a Conservation & Education department Photographer, Left in 1985 to return to full time studies in Acting & Drama, Returned in summertime of '86 & 87 as a darkroom technician, a post re-visited between 1989 - 1994, which subsidised theatre & film making. Returned (once more) in 1998 when VADAR was merely a spreadsheet. Still an Equity member, but as Hollywood never called, I'm still here, rummaging through the image archives of the past, present & future.

Caring for our collections

Guard Books – It’s The People That Matter.

A Museum without Staff and Visitors is simply a large building with (mostly) nice objects, with no-one looking after them, or studiously appraising them. It might be a little...

The Guard Book Project – Snapshot of More Reflections

This is the first of some small snapshots of items of interest that the Guard Books of black & white negatives are finding.. Remember these…. in a previous blog I...

The Guard Book Project – A Reflection

Seeing Other Things in an Object. The V&A recently had an exhibition in the Photography Gallery – The Camera Exposed, where every photograph had an image of least one...

The Guard Book Project – A Glimpse Into the Past

The Museum as it Was, 1929 – 1950. Take a look at this interior from 1936, and where do you think it is?.. …no, it`s not the main entrance, this is Gallery 40,...

The Guard Book Project – A Resource for Research

Well… I never knew that….. This digitisation project is providing a unique opportunity for various areas of research about the museums collections, the history of...

Caring for our collections

The Guard Book Project – Photographic Styles and Techniques : A Snapshot of Change

The current sequence of this digitisation project involves the pages of the Guard Books 1930 – 1949, and it has enabled us to look some of the differences, or indeed, the...

Managing Our Collections

The Guard Book Project

This project is the digitisation of The Guard Book Archive of Black & White Photographs taken by the Museum between 1856 – 1997. First of all what is a Guard Book?,...