Per Annum
Photograph
1936 (photographed)
1936 (photographed)
| Artist/Maker |
John Havinden was one of London's leading commercial photographers of the 1930s. He used this image for his trade calendar in 1936, the year that the International Surrealist Exhibition was held in London. It shows the combined influence on his work of Surrealism and the modernist design aesthetic. The abstract composition is based on formal, geometric elements but rendered mysterious by the atmospheric background and dramatic lighting.
Object details
| Category | |
| Object type | |
| Title | Per Annum |
| Materials and techniques | Gelatin-silver print |
| Brief description | 'Per Annum', photograph by John Havinden (1908-87), 1936 |
| Physical description | Photograph of a conical and spherical shape against a black starry background. |
| Credit line | Given by Dorothy Bohm 1998 |
| Summary | John Havinden was one of London's leading commercial photographers of the 1930s. He used this image for his trade calendar in 1936, the year that the International Surrealist Exhibition was held in London. It shows the combined influence on his work of Surrealism and the modernist design aesthetic. The abstract composition is based on formal, geometric elements but rendered mysterious by the atmospheric background and dramatic lighting. |
| Collection | |
| Accession number | E.216-1998 |
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| Record created | August 19, 2004 |
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