David Alan Mellor


David Alan Mellor is a British curator, professor and writer. He has been awarded the Royal Photographic Society's J. Dudley Johnston Award and Education Award.

Life and career

David Mellor — as he was called before he wanted to avoid confusion with the politician of the same name — studied art at Sussex University under Quentin Bell. During this time Asa Briggs, then Vice-Chancellor of the University, received the archive of Mass-Observation from Tom Harrisson. Mellor has published and curated exhibitions about the substantial collection of pre-war photographs of working-class life contained in this archive.
Exhibitions curated by Mellor include Paradise Lost: The New Romantic Imagination in Britain ; The Sixties ; and Co-Optic & Documentary Photography Group. As a professor of art at Sussex University, his students included Jeremy Deller.

Awards

Publications by Mellor