(Top)
Slade 1905 - the earliest unofficial ’class photo’, taken after the annual
Slade Strawberry picnic on 23 June 1905. (Bottom) Slade 1953 - including
William Coldstream, Lucien Freud, Henry Moore, Sam Ntiro, and Paula Rego.
The Slade School of Fine Art has a fascinating, but currently incomplete, collection of annual class photographs dating from 1931. A new project, led by the UCL Centre for Digital Humanities, is appealing for help to identify the sitters in the photos and complete the collection. Slade school photos have been taken annually since 1931. As part of the Slade Archive Project, researchers are asking former staff and students, scholars and members of the public for help to crowdsource content via a new website. Print photos have been catalogued by year and digitised, with website visitors able to zoom in on individual faces. Researchers have already managed to identify students in some of the photos - the 1953 photograph includes William Coldstream, Lucien Freud, Henry Moore, Sam Ntiro, and Paula Rego. They now need help to indentify faces in the other photos.
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