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Picturegoing is an ongoing survey reproducing eyewitness testimony of viewing pictures, from the seventeenth century to the present day.

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Jane Addams – James Agate – James Agee – Annye C. Anderson – Isabel Anderson – Mrs Annely – E. Bacon – Maud Baines – James Baldwin – J.G. Ballard – Katherine Mary Barrow – Iris Barry – John Baxter – Archie Bell – Florence Bell – Walter Benjamin – Alan Bennett – Arnold Bennett – H.J. Bennett – Leila Berg – Mrs K.J. Bills – Alexander Black – Harry Blacker – John Blake – Ursula Bloom – Ralph Blumenfeld – Louise Blundell – Maxwell Bodenheim – Henri Borel – Elizabeth Bowen – Marian Bowlan – Mary J. Breen – David Brewster – Olga Briceño – Nancee Oku Bright – Max Brod – Felice and Boudleaux Bryant – Adrian Brunel – Luis Buñuel – Anthony Burgess – Thomas Burke – Elizabeth Beardsley Butler – Ivan Butler – Dudley Buxton – Michael Caine – Jim Callaghan – Italo Calvino – Lady Colin Campbell – Phyllis Cann – W.E. Carson – Ellen Casey – Anne Chambers – Percival Chambers – Ada Chesterton – Rrekgetsi Chimeloane – Chang Chung-liang – Walter Citrine – Albert Clack – Christopher Clark – Andrew Collins – Jack Common – John Constable – Frederick John Corbitt – Julio Cortázar – Louis Couperus – May Crawshaw – Bill Cullen – Barton Currie – Ivor Cutler – Mrs Dankworth – Enid Campbell Dauncey – Worton David – Cecil Day Lewis – Simone de Beauvoir – Charles Dickens – Alfred Döblin – John Dos Passos – Francis Doublier – Daphne Du Maurier – Olivia Howard Dunbar – Douglas Dunn – John Durrant – Bob Dylan – Henry Elder – Eileen Elias – T.S. Eliot – Dorothea Eltenton – Len England – Jennie Erdal – George Ewart Evans – John Evelyn – Hymie Fagan – Negley Farson – Mary Helen Fee – Verónica Feliu – Thornton Fisher –Geoffrey Fletcher – Joseph Flower – Grace Foakes – Winifred Foley – Harry Franck – Gilbert Frankau – John Foster Fraser – Taizo Fujimoto – Terence Gallacher – Alan Garner – Muriel Giles – Alexander Goodall – Maxim Gorky – Alfred Gotts – Graham Greene – Fitzhugh Green – Henry Rider Haggard – Leslie Halliwell – Helen Hanna – Ted Harrison – Tony Harrison – Beatrice Hart – Lafcadio Hearn – Madeleine Henrey – Alfred Hitchcock – Harold Hobson – John Hollander – Alfreda Holmes – William Hone – Teresa Hooley – Arthur Hopcrafts – Laura Lee Hope – Denis Houlston – Rupert Hughes – Horatio Hollis Hunnewell – John Hall Ingham – Pico Iyer – W.W. Jacobs – Madhur Jaffrey – Clive James – Miss Johnsons – Florence Kate Johnson – Evelyn Jones – George Jordan – James Joyce – H.A. Jump – Franz Kafka – Yamamoto Kajiro – Molly Keen – Frank Kessler – Harry Kessler – Taran N. Khan – William Lyon Mackenzie King – Rudyard Kipling – Karl Kingsley Kitchen – Kazuo Koizumi – Ray Lankester – D.H. Lawrence – Stephen Leacock – Laurie Lee – C.M. Leicester – Mike Leigh – Hilda Lewis – Sinclair Lewis – Li Hung-fu – Vachel Lindsay – Alice Linton – David Livingstone – David Lodge – Malcolm Lowry – E.V. Lucas – Robert and Helen Lynd – Harris Merton Lyon – Cathleen McCarthy – Donald McGill – James MacKenzie – Luke McKernan – Jean McKillop – James Malone – Nelson Mandela – Thomas Mann – Percy Marks – Charles Marriott – Harriet Martineau – Brander Matthews – Abigail Mayo – R.J. Meads – Adolphe Menjou – Ben Moakes – Verne Morgan – Christopher Morley – Josef Morrell – Edwa Moser – Colin Moss – Daniel Moyano – Es’kia Mphahlele – Godfrey Charles Munday – Hugo Münsterberg – Harold Murray – Hannah Myers – V.S. Naipaul – Mike Newell – Henry Newbolt – Arthur Newton – William Nicholson – Harold Nicolson – Carsten Niebuhr – Denis Norden – Philip Norman – Frank Norris – Louis Olivier – George Orwell – John Osborne – Paul van Ostaijen – Peter O’Toole – Ruth Bryan Owen – Wilfred Owen – Alexander L. Pach – Stephen Paget – Michael Palin – Alan Parker – Cornelia Stratton Parker – – Simon Nelson Patten – Joseph Medill Patterson – George Pearson – Ralph Penso – Samuel Pepys – Henry Albert Phillips – Molly Picon – Ruth Pierce – Thomas Cunningham Porter – Michael Powell – J.B. Priestley – V.S. Pritchett – Marcel Proust – Voldemars Puce – Montagu Pyke – Anthony Quayle – Jonathan Raban – Sydney Race – Arthur Ransome – Stanley Ratcliff – Hardwicke Rawnsley – John Reed – Jean Renoir – Keith Richards – Dorothy Richardson – Enos Roberts – Robert Roberts – Fermin Rocker – C.H. Rolph – Jules Romains – Lillian Ross – Joseph Roth – Samuel Roth – Bertrand Russell – Edward W. Said – Jean-Paul Sartre – Siegfried Sassoon – Vernon Scannell – Frank Henry Scott – Robert Falcon Scott – Mihail Sebastian – George Bernard Shaw – W. Stocker Shaw – Sam Shepard – Moyle Sherer – Robert Silvey – L.E. Sissman – Margaret Skinnider – E. Skellen – George M. Smith – Hugh Smith – Sidney Smith – Tobias Smollett – Walter Southgate – Fred Spurgin – G.W. Steevens – Robert Louis Stevenson – Rod Stewart – Gwendoline Strong – Winifred Sturgeon – Gloria Swanson – Jonathan Swift – Ernest Dunlop Swinton – Eric Sykes – Andrei Tarkovsky – A.S.J. Tessimond Ben Thomas – Dylan Thomas – Ralph Thoresby William Titterton – William Trevor – Charles Truitt – Henry Turner – Min-Ch’ien T.Z. Tyau – John Updike – Louise Vallers – Victoria – Mary Heaton Vorse – Diana Vreeland – Edward Wagenknecht – Harold Walker – Hugh Walpole – Gertrude S. Walton – Lauchlan MacLean Watt – Evelyn Waugh – H.G. Wells – Alexander Werner – Annie Whittle – Frederick Willis – Edmund Wilson – W.W. 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