{"id":191,"date":"2020-06-11T11:12:06","date_gmt":"2020-06-11T10:12:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningspaces.dundee.ac.uk\/czbrown\/?p=191"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:47:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:47:29","slug":"the-peto-collection-nuns-on-deckchairs-1960s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/the-peto-collection-nuns-on-deckchairs-1960s\/","title":{"rendered":"The Peto Collection &#8211; Nuns on Deckchairs, 1960s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/04\/P3302-1302-Nuns-on-deckchairs-nd.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-192 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/04\/P3302-1302-Nuns-on-deckchairs-nd-683x1024.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"683\" height=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/04\/P3302-1302-Nuns-on-deckchairs-nd-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/04\/P3302-1302-Nuns-on-deckchairs-nd-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/04\/P3302-1302-Nuns-on-deckchairs-nd-768x1152.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/04\/P3302-1302-Nuns-on-deckchairs-nd-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/04\/P3302-1302-Nuns-on-deckchairs-nd.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 683px) 100vw, 683px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Peto\u2019s passion for photographing the ordinary often led him to capturing the more eccentric aspects of British life &#8211; and this capture of a group nuns sleeping in deckchairs from the &#8217;60s is a quintessential example.<\/p>\n<p>Photo-journalist Michael Peto worked with The Observer during the 1950s and \u201860s. His collection is a chronicle of an age \u2013 a spirited mix of arts and culture, politics, war and peace, social documentary and the emergence of twentieth celebrity culture. Peto had a very personal humanist style, seeking to record \u2018the basic serenity of the human form\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>The collection was gifted to the University of Dundee by Peto\u2019s stepson Michael Fodor and comprises some 130,000 prints and negatives. It is held by the University Archives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Peto\u2019s passion for photographing the ordinary often led him to capturing the more eccentric aspects of British life &#8211; and this capture of a group nuns sleeping in deckchairs from the &#8217;60s is a quintessential example. Photo-journalist Michael Peto worked with The Observer during the 1950s and \u201860s. His collection is a chronicle of an [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"featured_media":192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives","category-photography","tag-peto-collection"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/550"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6521,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191\/revisions\/6521"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}