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Photograph

1956 (photographed)
Artist/Maker
Mayne, Roger (photographer)
Place of origin
London (photographed)

A contact sheet of photographs, printed in black and white, made in Southam Street, London, 1956. There are 16 separate images shown on the contact sheet. The images mostly show children playing in the street; some are playing with balls, some are doing handstands and one little girl is shown clutching her arm and crying.

Object details

Categories
Photographs
Children & Childhood
Object type
Photograph
Materials and techniques
Gelatin-silver prints from 4.3 x 5.8 cm negatives made with a Zeiss Super Ikonta camera
Photographic Paper
Gelatin-Silver
Brief description
Photograph by Roger Mayne, contact sheet of photographs made in Southam Street, London, gelatin-silver prints from 4.3 x 5.8 cm negatives made with a Zeiss Super Ikonta camera, Great Britain, 1956
Physical description
A contact sheet of photographs, printed in black and white, made in Southam Street, London, 1956. There are 16 separate images shown on the contact sheet. The images mostly show children playing in the street; some are playing with balls, some are doing handstands and one little girl is shown clutching her arm and crying.
Dimensions
  • Height: 19.1cm
  • Width: 26cm
Dimensions taken from Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1990
Marks and inscriptions
  • 'H.P.S, 5.5.56 1/2' (Inscribed in pencil on the back)
  • (Numbered on the negatives in sequence from 4646-4661)
Production
Mayne photographed in Southam Street, North Kensington, on 27 occasions between 1956 and 1961. About 1400 negatives resulted from these visits. Eighty-eight photographs are grouped in the 'Southam Street Album', a book dummy, also in the V&A's collection. Three of the photographs on this contact sheet appear enlarged in that album.
Subjects depicted
Children
Street Scenes
Place depicted
Kensington
Associated objects
Bibliographic references
  • Victoria and Albert Museum Department of Prints, Drawings and Paintings Accession Register for 1990
  • Haworth-Booth, Mark.The Street Photographs of Roger Mayne. London: Victoria and Albert Museum, 1986.88pp, illus. p.8.
Collection
Prints, Drawings & Paintings Collection
Accession number
E.3189-1990

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Record createdFebruary 23, 2009
Record URL
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