The iconic 20th century British Photographer E.O. Hoppé (1878 – 1972) came to my attention last winter during a layover in London. I made sure to hunt down a copy of his most recent monograph while loitering in a local book shop  giant bookstore off of Trafalgar Square after seeing posters for his upcoming retrospective.

The story goes that Hoppé sold his archive to the London Picture Gallery in 1954, only to have his work misfiled among millions of random stock images.  It remained forgotten and untouched until the mid 1990s and soon the decade-long process of digitizing and conservation would be undertaken. Better late than never.