Raymond Moore, British, 1920-1987 Seeking the mystery of the commonplace, photographer Raymond Moore (born in Wallasey, Cheshire) poetically interpreted the social landscape of post-World War II Britain. Moore, the son of an architect, was first attracted to the photography of buildings and structures while a student of painting and design at the Wallasey School of Art (1937-40). After serving in the Royal Air Force during the war years (1940-46), he continued his education at the Royal College of Art (A.R.C.A., 1950) and six years later joined the faculty of Watford College of Art, Hertfordshire, where he taught photography until 1974. In the mid-1950s, influenced by the formal and conceptual achievements of such photographers as André Kertesz, Harry Callahan, and Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Moore turned to urban life as a cultural and aesthetic source for image-making. He traveled to the United States in 1970, studying with Minor White at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and meeting Callahan and Aaron Siskind. In 1975, he began lecturing at Trent Polytechnic, but left three years later when a bursary from the Arts Council of Great Britain enabled him to pursue his own work. In 1981, Moore was honored as only the second British photographer (after Bill Brandt) to be given a one-person exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, London. His publications include Murmurs at Every Turn: The Photographs of Raymond Moore (1981) and Every So Often: Photographs by Raymond Moore (1983). A.W. Source: Cleveland Museum

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