{"id":194,"date":"2020-05-19T09:20:57","date_gmt":"2020-05-19T08:20:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningspaces.dundee.ac.uk\/czbrown\/?p=194"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:47:29","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:47:29","slug":"the-peto-collection-a-foggy-day-in-dundee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/the-peto-collection-a-foggy-day-in-dundee\/","title":{"rendered":"The Peto Collection &#8211; A Foggy Day in Dundee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/04\/P1502_3-A-foggy-day-in-Dundee-1959.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-195 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/04\/P1502_3-A-foggy-day-in-Dundee-1959-1024x778.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1024\" height=\"778\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/04\/P1502_3-A-foggy-day-in-Dundee-1959-1024x778.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/04\/P1502_3-A-foggy-day-in-Dundee-1959-300x228.jpg 300w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/04\/P1502_3-A-foggy-day-in-Dundee-1959-768x584.jpg 768w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/04\/P1502_3-A-foggy-day-in-Dundee-1959-1536x1167.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/04\/P1502_3-A-foggy-day-in-Dundee-1959.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Peto regularly visited Dundee, photographing the city\u2019s streets and people. \u2018Foggy Day\u2019 was taken at Whorterbank, Lochee, features one of the women wearing the famous jute \u2018baffies\u2019 and won a European award in 1960.<\/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 regularly visited Dundee, photographing the city\u2019s streets and people. \u2018Foggy Day\u2019 was taken at Whorterbank, Lochee, features one of the women wearing the famous jute \u2018baffies\u2019 and won a European award in 1960. Photo-journalist Michael Peto worked with The Observer during the 1950s and \u201860s. His collection is a chronicle of an age \u2013 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":550,"featured_media":195,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,20],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-194","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\/194","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=194"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6539,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/194\/revisions\/6539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}