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Michael Hallett is involved with both pictures and words....



Michael Hallett is an academic, a professional image maker and an internationally published photohistorian. His involvement with communication and media, and a career in the theory and practice of art & design education, provides the environment for this storyteller using both pictures and words.


He has extensive experience in higher education in what is now De Montfort University, the Arts University Bournemouth, Manchester Metropolitan University, Birmingham City University, and also as Visiting Professor at Rochester Institute of Technology, New York.


He has written continuously for the photographic press for almost five decades. His biographical trilogy on Stefan Lorant, the 'godfather of photojournalism', brought Lorant's work to a new public. Aa a cultural/photographic historian he is concerned with the images of others, with Bullring: the heart of Birmingham, and his A Great City exhibition he is involved with his his own photographic practice.


The Michael Hallett Archive is deposited along with his Stefan Lorant Collection at the Library of Birmingham (LoB), U.K.


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Revised editions of Being There & Never a Dull Moment

available now

The elements of Being There have become fragments of biographies that collectively follow the progress of picture journalism from the advent of the miniature camera through to the arrival and impact of the digital age. It covers a ninety-year period from ca.1923 to 2012 and provides a critical compilation of encounters with influential photographers and their visual icons. This is not a history of modern photojournalism but a meander through the media’s past, just stopping at strategic points to mark in the detail and paint in the colour. Michael Hallett’s publication has evolved over a thirty year period and is now revised and updated and presented from a 2023 perspective. His conversations with such photographers as Tim Gidal, Alfred Eisenstaedt, Carl Mydans, Sebastiāo Salgado as well as more recent practitioners all reflect the time of their particular interview. (see the TASTER button below).

ISBN: 978-1-3999-4034-8. Softback. 319 pages. £20 plus postage & packaging.

These were my notes, my working journals which were intended to provide insights into that complex characther known as Stefan Lorant. They became a series of diaries as part of my research being written contemporaneously with my various conversations with Lorant. Over time they took on a life of their own reflecting my working relationship with 'the godfather of photojournalism'. They were never intended as part his authorised biography or fragments of my autobiography.

Things change. An emotional rollercoaster perhaps, but there was never a dull moment ....

ISBN: 978-1-3999-4566-0. Softback. 344 pages. £22 plus postage & packaging.


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