Christopher Bucklow

photographer

Christopher Bucklow, was born on the first of June, 1957, in Flixton, Lancashire, England. His parents were Roy and Doreen Bucklow. Roy Bucklow was an architect, but he died before Christopher's first birthday in 1958. Christopher was adopted by his stepfather Alfred Noel Titterington, a businessman in the printing industry, in 1967 and used the name Chris Titterington until the beginning of his life as an artist in 1989, when he was 32 years old. After Bucklow graduated in 1978 he accepted a post as a curator at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London. He worked in the Prints and Drawings department. There he researched Romantic works of art on paper and early photography. He also continued his interest in contemporary art and he wrote reviews of contemporary exhibitions for *Artscribe magazine*, London. During this whole period as a museum curator, he did not make any art himself. He was completely absorbed in the study of the Romantic mind in particular the developments that led to the rise of landscape in the genre hierarchy of the period. However, he was becoming interested in William Blake and would spend time after hours studying the many wonderful examples of Blakes work that he was looking after as part of the V&A collection. During these years as a curator, he also continued his early interest in physics and astronomy.