Anthony Frank Kersting,FRGS (7 November 1916 – 2 September 2008)[1][2] was a Britisharchitectural photographer. His images of British, European, and Middle Eastern architecture also feature urban and village life, landscape, commerce, transport and leisure.[3] He was considered to be the leading architectural photographer of his generation.[1]
Publications. Add “Crusader Castles - Burgen der Kreuzritter” 1966; text by Mueller-Wiener, publisher Deutscher Kunstverlag.
Kersting was born in 37 Frewin Road inWandsworth,South London, and studied atDulwich College, where he developed an interest in photography.[1]
After leaving Dulwich he worked at the Sloane Square branch ofLloyds Bank.[2] In 1936 the publication in newspapers of his photographs depicting the newPeter Jones department store influenced a change in career. In 1939 he volunteered for theRoyal Air Force and, in 1941, was posted toEgypt. After the war Kersting continued to work as a freelance architectural photographer, illustrating books forBatsford,Nikolaus Pevsner'sGuides,Arthur Mee'sKing’s England series,Encyclopedia Britannica as well as working forCountry Life and forthe National Trust. In 1947, Kersting was elected a Fellow of theRoyal Geographical Society and, in 1999, an exhibition of his photographs was held at theWandsworth Museum.
Kersting died in 2008 at the age of 91.[1]
The complete archive of Kersting's black and white prints, glass and film negatives, and hand-written ledgers[4] is now held in theConway Library,[5] the architectural photography collection ofthe Courtauld Institute of Art, an independent college of theUniversity of London.[6][7][8]
The 42,000 negatives are being digitised and will be available in the public domain when the project is finished.[6]
Kersting's work includes photographs of:
A talk entitled "A Possible Life of Anthony Kersting" was given by his biographer, Tom Bilson, atDulwich College on 20 June 2018 as part of the 11thGE Moore Lecture Series.[13]
Between June - November 2020, the inaugural Project Space exhibition at the Courtauld, "Kurdistan in the 1940s", included 21 of Kersting's photographs.[14][15][16]
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