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Harold Riley’s father was a photography buff and introduced his son to photography and its processes while he was still a very young boy. Since his first box cameras, he has retained every camera he has ever owned and these are now in the Riley Archive. In 1980, Harold Riley single-handedly created a great photographic exhibition known as Salford 80. Within it were more than twenty separate new exhibitions which were shown throughout Manchester and Salford, filling Manchester City Art Gallery, Salford City Art Gallery and various geodesic domes built across the University of Salford campus. His Royal Highness Prince Philip, the Duke of Edinburgh, opened the exhibition, which The Sunday Times called the greatest photographic exhibition ever shown. During this period Harold Riley developed close friendships with many people involved in international photography and particularly with André Kertesz in New York, whose retrospective at Salford 80 was one of the highlights of the exhibition. The Riley Archive contains all the artist’s photos and negatives, as well as collections by other photographers from all over the world. The Lawrence Levy Collection, the life’s work of the great golf photographer, is also housed at the archive. |
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