Tim Rawle
{{Short description|English photographer}}
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| birth_place = Ashford, Kent, England
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| alma_mater = St Martin's School of Art and Central School of Art and Design, London
Downing College, Cambridge
Architectural Association, London
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Tim Rawle is an English architectural photographer and writer. He is best known for his photographs of buildings in Cambridge, England.
Biography
Tim Rawle was born in Ashford, Kent. After studying fine art and graphic design at St Martin's School of Art and at the Central School of Art and Design, London, he read architecture at Downing College, Cambridge, continuing his education at the Architectural Association, where he was Caldicott Scholar.See {{cite book|last1=Rawle|first1=Tim|title=Cambridge Architecture|publisher=Trefoil Books|location=London|isbn=0862940591|edition=1st|date=1985}} Paperback {{ISBN|0862940508}}.
He first came to attention with the publication of his book Cambridge Architecture in 1985. Besides providing the text and the photographs for this venture he also designed the book. The Daily Telegraph described it as "an astonishingly comprehensive book . . . a unique and valuable record".Gray, Ronald. "Cambridge on parade", The Daily Telegraph, no. 40,369, London, Thursday, 4 April 1985. A revised edition was brought out by André Deutsch in 1993.{{cite book|last1=Rawle|first1=Tim|title=Cambridge Architecture|publisher=André Deutsch|location=London|edition=2nd|date=1993|isbn=0233988181}}
In 1987 he provided the photography and design for Cinzia Maria Sicca's Committed to Classicism: The Building of Downing College, Cambridge.{{cite book|last1=Sicca|first1=Cinzia Maria|title=Committed to Classicism: The Building of Downing College, Cambridge|publisher=Downing College, Cambridge|location=Cambridge|isbn=0951162012|edition=1st|date=1987}} Paperback {{ISBN|0951162004}}. The following year he was commissioned to design a new pictorial book on the National Portrait Gallery's collection as well as a small guide to the NPG's outstation at Bodelwyddan Castle, North Wales.{{cite book|last1=Foister|first1=Susan|last2=Gibson|first2=Robin|last3=Rogers|first3=Malcolm|last4=Simon|first4=Jacob|title=The National Portrait Gallery Collection|publisher=National Portrait Gallery Publications|location=London|isbn=0904017893|edition=1st|date=1988}} Paperback {{ISBN|0904017907}}; US cloth edition (Cambridge University Press) {{ISBN|0521373921}}; {{cite book|last1=Foister|first1=Susan|title=The National Portrait Gallery at Bodelwyddan Castle|publisher=National Portrait Gallery Publications|location=London|isbn=0904017923|date=1988}}
In 1991, he set up a small business called "The Cambridge Portfolio" to publish calendars, diaries, greetings cards and postcards featuring his photographs of Cambridge buildings and Cambridge town and gown. He did the photography and design for the official guide to King's College Chapel.Warrior, Josephine: A Guide to King's College Chapel, Cambridge with photography and design by Tim Rawle, Cambridge, 1994 (English edition), reprinted 1997, 2001, 2003, 2007, 2014. For a period spanning several years he produced prospectuses for many Cambridge colleges and independent schools in south-east England.{{cn|date=October 2022}}
In 2005 he published the book Cambridge (Frances Lincoln).{{cite book|last1=Rawle|first1=Tim|title=Cambridge|date=2005|publisher=Frances Lincoln|location=London|isbn=0711225494|edition=1st}} In his review in CAM, the university magazine, Peter Richards[https://www.theguardian.com/theguardian/2009/dec/14/peter-richards-obituary Dr Peter Richards' Guardian obituary.] wrote: "At the heart of the book lies a fascinating exploration of seven hundred years of University architecture . . . This is, quite simply, the best introduction to Cambridge ever published."{{cite journal|last1=Richards|first1=Peter|title=City of colour, city of contrasts|journal=CAM: Cambridge Alumni Magazine|year=2006|issue= 47|page=25}}
The Howard Foundation commissioned Rawle to be the author and photographer of a new book on Downing College published in 2015 and described by the Georgian as a "well-researched architectural history" with "exceptional photographs".{{cite web|last1=Howard Foundation|title=News page|url=http://www.howard-foundation.com/News.htm |accessdate=9 February 2015}} Book entitled A Classical Adventure: The Architectural History of Downing College Cambridge ({{cite web|last1=Oxbridge Portfolio |title=Books|url=http://www.oxbridgeportfolio.com |accessdate=27 February 2015}}). Review in the Georgian, spring 2016.
Rawle was appointed a Fellow Commoner of Downing College, Cambridge in 1987.[http://www.dow.cam.ac.uk/index.php/people/fellows/108-fellowcommoners Downing College website].
Bibliography
- Cambridge Architecture (1st ed., sponsored by Cambridge Consultants) London: Trefoil Books, 1985. 224 pp. {{ISBN|0862940591}}; paperback {{ISBN|0862940508}} {{OCLC|12128315}}
- Committed to Classicism: The Building of Downing College, Cambridge. With Cinzia Maria Sicca (main author), Edward Powell, Charles Harpum (contrib.) Cambridge: Downing College, Cambridge, 1987. 228 pp. {{ISBN|0951162012}}; paperback {{ISBN|0951162004}} {{OCLC|14717806}}
- Cambridge Architecture (2nd ed.) London: André Deutsch, 1993. 240 pp. {{ISBN|0233988181}} {{OCLC|29468655}}
- Cambridge (1st ed.). London: Frances Lincoln, 2005. 192 pp. {{ISBN|0711225494}} {{OCLC|61176603}}
- Classic Cambridge: 100 Photographs by Tim Rawle. Cambridge: The Cambridge Portfolio, 2012. 128 pp. {{ISBN|9780957286702}} {{OCLC|858070726}}
- The Chapel of Trinity College, Oxford. With Martin Kemp (author). London: Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers, 2014. 88 pp. {{ISBN|9781857598247}} {{OCLC|834412864}}
- A Classical Adventure: The Architectural History of Downing College, Cambridge. Tim Rawle (author), Tim Rawle and Louis Sinclair (photographers), John Adamson (editor). Cambridge: Oxbridge Portfolio, 2015, 200 pp. {{ISBN|978 0 9572867 4 0}} {{OCLC|931005141}}
- Cambridge. Tim Rawle (author and photographer), John Adamson (editor) (new edition with a foreword by William Bortrick). Cambridge: Oxbridge Portfolio, 2016, 204 pp. {{ISBN|978 0 9572867 2 6}}
References
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External links
- [http://www.timrawle.com Tim Rawle's official site]
- [http://www.cambridge-portfolio.co.uk The Cambridge Portfolio site]
- [http://www.oxbridgeportfolio.com The Oxbridge Portfolio site]
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Category:Alumni of the Central School of Art and Design
Category:Alumni of Downing College, Cambridge
Category:Alumni of Saint Martin's School of Art