David Alan Mellor

David Alan Mellor is a British curator, professor and writer. He has been awarded the Royal Photographic Society's J. Dudley Johnston Award and Education Award.
Life and career.
David Mellor — as he was called before he wanted to avoid confusion with the politician of the same name — studied art at Sussex University under Quentin Bell. During this time Asa Briggs, then Vice-Chancellor of the University, received the archive of Mass-Observation from Tom Harrisson. Mellor has published and curated exhibitions about the substantial collection of pre-war photographs of working-class life contained in this archive.
Exhibitions curated by Mellor include "Paradise Lost: The New Romantic Imagination in Britain" (Barbican Centre, 1987); "The Sixties" (1993); and "Co-Optic & Documentary Photography Group" (Brighton Photo Biennial, 2014). As a professor of art at Sussex University, his students included Jeremy Deller.