Nic Tucker has worked in photography since he left school in 1965, first as an assistant to a variety of photographers, working in advertising, design company work and film. He then worked as a freelance photographer for magazines and mostly commercial work. More recently he has been doing his “own thing”, which is far more satisfying than trying to recreate a nebulous idea of another person.
Collections
Museum of Modern Art, New York
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris
Rhenischeslander Museum, Bonn
Michel and Michele Auer, Hermance, Switzerland
Ambassador of Venezuela, London
Archduchess of Austria
Chelsea Arts Club, London
Dept of the Environment, London
Museo de Fotografia, Fundacion Cultural Televisa AC, Centro Cultural Arte Contemporeano A.C. Mexico
Selected exhibitions
1978
Open Photography, Midland Group, Nottingham
Serpentine Gallery, London
New 57 Gallery, Edinburgh
Cliffe Castle Museum, Keighley
Harrow College of Art and Technology
Objects, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
1978
Ansel Adams exhbition Moscow
1983
New Perspectives on the Nude, Fotogallery, Cardiff
Portraits, Rheinischelander Museum, Bonn
1985
Amber House Gallery, Tokyo and Kyoto, Japan
1987
A Private View, Royal Photographic Society, Bath
1989
Chelsea Arts Club, London
1991
International Photo Exhibition – Nature – Everybody\’s Home, Kaunus Photography Gallery, Kaunus, Lithuania
1992
AFEAP Gallery, Fuji Group, London
1993
Hamilton Gallery, London, for Rato Monastery
Chelsea Harbour London
1994
Still Life and Shadow, Centre de la Photographie, Geneva
1994
Barnados, London
1995
Lux y Tiempo, coll. formada por Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Fundacion Cultural Televisa, A.C. Mexico
1998
Shadow and Light, afotogallery.com
1999
Lawrence Graham, London
China,Trinity College, Cambridge
2000
Paques 2 mille Oeufs
la galerie Photo Montpellier
2000
Le nu photographie
Galerie d’Art du Conseil General des Bouches-du-Rhone Aix-en-Provence
2001
The Colony Room Club 2001: A Space Oddity London
2002
Chelsea Arts Club Photographers London
2004
Collection M.+ M. Auer; une histoire de la photographie,
Theatre de la Photographie Nice
Musee d’Art et Histoire, Geneva
2005
Nehru Centre London: Tones of Rajasthan
Galerie Aalders,, La Garde Freinet
Off the Wall , Spitals Gallery, Golden Heart Public House, London
Publications
Including or referring to Nic Tucker
Fabric & Form; Irish Fashion since 1950 by Elizabeth McCrum, Ulster Museum, Belfast (1996)
Creative Camera June 1982; Tucker’s photograph of Bill Brandt
Images 1/94 Centre de la Photographie, Geneva Fotografie di Nicolas Tucker Photo 12 (Milan) September 1974
The Creative Handbook 1991 (Reed Information Services)
London Magazine 1976
Catalogue of the 1983 New Perspectives on the Nude Exhibition, Fotogallery, Cardiff
Catalogue of the Museo de Fotografia, Fundacion Cultural Televisa A.C. Centro Cultural/Arte Contemporeano A.C. Mexico
Photographers Encyclopaedia International, Michel and Michele Auer, Geneva 1987
Colony Room Club catalogue 50th Anniversary Art Exhibition 1998
Histoires d’Oeufs par Michele Auer et Jean Streff: 199,Editions Ides et Calendes SA,Neuchatel
Knots of the human heart; catalogue of sculpture by Sokari Douglas Camp, Morley College 2000
Catalogue of Le nu photographie, Galerie d’Art du Conseil General des Bouches-du-Rhone, Aix-en-Provence 2000
Catalogue of The Colony Room Club 2001: A Space Oddity London
Christopher Le Brun;Booth-Clibborn Editions 2001
Colony Room Calendar 2003 (The Smudge Group)Collections M.+ M. Auer: une historie de la photographie 2004
Camera Craft (ava publishing sa): Nudes; 2003
Camera Craft: Black & White Photography 2003
Outdoor Lighting: Nudes (ava photography) 2003
The AVA Guide to Outdoor Photography 2004
The World’s Top Photographers: Nudes (Apple Press) 2005
various journals of the Anglo Spanish Society
various Chelsea Arts Club Yearbooks
By Nic Tucker
Article: Circus Days and Nights in Photographic Journal (London) December 1975
Reviews in What’s On (London) 1991 on Appearances; Lee Freidlander; Man Ray; David Tack and Spain; Todd Webb Photographer
Hysteric (Tokyo) 1992 (Photographs)
Article: Travels in Spain in The Whistler (London) vol.1/2
Article (with photographs): High and Dry in the Cordilleras (Chile) in The Whistler (London) September 1995
Article (with photographs) on China/Hong Kong in The Whistler (London) Spring 1998
Article (with photographs) on Portugal and Estramadura for the Anglo Spanish Society Spring 1998
Quoted on Jimmy Wormser in British Journal of Photography 22.06.04
Obituary of Jimmy Wormser in Image July 2004