New Perspectives through Photographic Portraits: The Duparc Family Collection
Our Collections Manager, Emma Treleaven, was awarded an Understanding British Portraits Network Research Fellowship for 2023-24. Her project was based on the extensive collection that Amersham Museum acquired in 2022 from the Duparc family who lived in Little Chalfont from 1924. Their time capsule of a house, The Bynn on Village Way, included a wealth of material that told the family’s history, not least through over 300 photographs and negatives that now form part of Amersham Museum’s collection. These were the focus of her fellowship.
Alongside thorough cataloguing of these photographs and related items that the Museum acquired from the family, Emma led a project that explored the role of photography in the Duparc’s lives, setting it into the wider context of photography history and collections.
The wider project included work with our collections volunteers and Stony Dean School, but notably on a special project with the Museum’s Young Curators’ group. This film, produced by Ed Avern, tells the story of the project entwined with story of Anthony Duparc and his family.
Click on the image below to watch the film
