THE THOMAS HARDY ASSOCIATION
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DIRECTOR: ROBERT SCHWEIK
© 1998-2003
BRUCE'S THOMAS HARDY PHOTO ARCHIVE
DESCRIPTION:
Address: http://home.att.net/~bwmartin/Hardy_Home.htm [NOW CLOSED]
Contact: Bruce Martin (bwmart@worldnet.att.net)
Date: 04/01/03
Bruce Martin received a grant to do research in Dorset and has a Juris Doctor from the University of Arizona.
The site provides a limited collection of photographs related to scenes in Hardy's novels, short stories, poems, and biography, many by the page master, who asks for contributions by others. Identifications of the photographs are said to derive from Thomas Hardy's Wessex by Hermann Lea, The Landscape of Thomas Hardy by Dennis Kay-Robinson, and "various tour guide pamphlets of the Thomas Hardy Society," as well as from Bruce Martin's own research.
Links are provided to seven remote Hardy-related sites.
COMMENT:
The small photographs may be enlarged to intermediate size and are mostly of fair quality. They are attributed to the
photographer and their copyright status indicated. Arranged under the titles of Hardy's works, they are often identified by the real name of the place they portray, but in some cases only by fictional place names. Unfortunately these identifications are sometimes mistaken or misleading. For example, a
picture of the façade of the Sheldonian Theatre is identified as "Bodleian Library"; a picture of the Radcliffe Camera is identified as "Sheldonian Theatre"; pictures labeled "Tess's Cottage" and "Henchard's Seed Shop," without any qualification, are not of structures certainly known to have been used as models by Hardy; and arguments advanced to support such identifications are not specifically cited nor is the actual subject of the picture identified. For Hardy's complex fusing of several heath lands and multiple Rainbarrow mounds there is a picture simplistically titled "Egdon Heath, looking towards Rainbarrow," without any further identification or explanation.
A link on one of the sub-pages to Bruce Martin's home page is broken. The remote sites to which links are provided vary greatly in quality. One of the links is to a remote site now closed; the others are all described, evaluated, and linked from this TTHA site.
SUMMARY:
A source of photographs related to Hardy and his writings, but care must be exercised because picture captions are sometimes wrong or misleadingly simplistic. For a warning about such images, see our GENERAL CAUTION.