{"id":88,"date":"2020-03-27T10:18:45","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T10:18:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningspaces.dundee.ac.uk\/czbrown\/?p=88"},"modified":"2025-09-15T10:47:31","modified_gmt":"2025-09-15T09:47:31","slug":"the-peto-collection-writer-iris-murdoch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/the-peto-collection-writer-iris-murdoch\/","title":{"rendered":"The Peto Collection &#8211; Writer Iris Murdoch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/03\/MS-81-6-P900-Iris-Murdoch-1962.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-312 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/03\/MS-81-6-P900-Iris-Murdoch-1962.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"782\" height=\"1000\" srcset=\"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/03\/MS-81-6-P900-Iris-Murdoch-1962.jpg 782w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/03\/MS-81-6-P900-Iris-Murdoch-1962-235x300.jpg 235w, https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/263\/2020\/03\/MS-81-6-P900-Iris-Murdoch-1962-768x982.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 782px) 100vw, 782px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left\">Murdoch was one of many figures of literature photographed by Peto. Murdoch was a Fellow of Philosophy at Oxford University when this portrait was taken in 1962 for a profile in the <em>The Observer Weekend Review.<\/em><\/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>Murdoch was one of many figures of literature photographed by Peto. Murdoch was a Fellow of Philosophy at Oxford University when this portrait was taken in 1962 for a profile in the The Observer Weekend Review. 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":312,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"image","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,15,20],"tags":[36],"class_list":["post-88","post","type-post","status-publish","format-image","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archives","category-literature","category-photography","tag-peto-collection","post_format-post-format-image"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88","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=88"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6598,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/88\/revisions\/6598"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=88"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=88"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.dundee.ac.uk\/culture\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=88"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}